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I check out Claude, a generative AI assistant to see if, how, and when such a tool could fit into an analysis and visualization workflow.

Here’s the good stuff for the month: things to use, things to poke at, and things to learn from.

This week we look at connecting multiple charts explicitly and implicitly to provide a cohesive narrative or visual metaphor around a dataset.

This week we talk randomness in the everyday.

Using faded lines to show the overall changes in a time series and to provide a point of reference for the present.

I made a chart about Halloween candy. Even dumb charts need attention and require that choices are made.

Weather. Data. Map. Animation. They go well together to show sudden changes over time.

Breaking it down to the small steps and choices with data, code, and editing that lead to a finished chart.

GeoTIFF data can provide high granularity but make it hard to see patterns when data is sparse. Contour lines provide an aggregated view that makes patterns easier to see.