Say you want to identify clusters in a scatterplot of points. K-Means is…
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K-Means clustering visually explained
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Coffee versus tea in charts
Anahad O’Connor, Aaron Steckelberg and Garland Potts, for The Washington Post, made charts…
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Accessible visualization with Olli JavaScript library
The Olli library aims to make it easier for developers to improve the…
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Wide range of data exploration tools
Simon Willison asked a straightforward question about the tools people use:
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Unemployed data scientist
It seems a lot of data scientists have either left or were laid…
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Tree Talk
Kelton Sears used a vertical scroll upwards to think about trees and time.…
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Mapping climate-related hazards in real-time
Bringing in data from various federal agencies:
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, September 2022 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for September.
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Days-since tickers for all the natural disasters
You know those signs in workplaces that keep track of days since injury?…
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How to Draw and Use Polygons in R
R provides functions for basic shapes, but you can also draw your own for maximum fun.
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Potential storm surge flooding map
NOAA provides a map of potential flooding due to Hurricane Ian headed towards…
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Trajectories of celebratory gunfire
When someone fires a gun into the air, the bullet travels thousands of…
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Design principles for data analysis
To teach, learn, and measure the process of analysis more concretely, Lucy D’Agostino…
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Historical data
Randall Munroe provides another fine observation through xkcd.
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Maps of wildfire smoke pollution
Wildfire obviously damages the areas it comes in direct contact with, but wildfire…
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Housing market cooldown
I heard you like spiral charts when the data is seasonal. I think…
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Data horror stories song
Rafael Moral sang a very nerdy data analyst song, to the tune of…
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Nonsense
If you just always assume the data is right, you’ll probably finish with garbage.
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Developing a data design language for the World Health Organization
In a collaborative effort with UX agency Kore, Moritz Stefaner describes work with…
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Climate and the San Francisco fog
A reliable dense fog in San Francisco is a defining characteristic of the…