Many of you now have Visualize This in your hands and have probably gone through a number of tutorials. Now it’s time to put what you’ve learned into practice. I’m fleshing out the details of a Flowing Datathon. I don’t know what it’ll be like yet — other than it’ll involve an interesting dataset over 24 hours and some prizes (and of course, fun) — but if you’d like to keep up-to-date either to get involved or watch, I’ve set up an email list.
Oh, and if you have ideas for what would make the event special awesome, feel free to leave your suggestion in the comments.
Sounds great!
Please make the datathon run during the weekend – don’t want to miss out due to being at work…
Noted!
I just succeeded to read a table from a WEB page using BeautifulSoup and generate a heatmap. Very interesting!!! I learned a lot from Visualize this.
@Emily – happy to hear :)
Great idea, keen to try out some more of the techniques from Visualize This!
How about a special sub-challenge where people deliberately try to produce the most misleading graphic from the available data?