Nathan Yau

Microsoft’s visual data explorer SandDance open sourced

Software / Microsoft, open-source, SandDance

Microsoft just open sourced their data exploration tool known as SandDance:
For those…
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Less Time With Methods, More Time With Questions and Context (The Process #61)

The Process / context, Kevin Durant, Nate Silver, questions

Data represents the real world, and visualization represents data. But sometimes data and the real world disagree with each other.
Techniques for adding context to visualization

Design / context, Richard Brath, talk

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When it comes to meaningful visualization, context is everything. Richard…
How Much Commuting is Too Much?

Data Underload / commute, threshold, work

One person’s long commute is another’s dream. Another person’s normal might be someone else’s nightmare. What counts as a long commute depends on where you live.
Study retracted after finding a mistaken recoding of the data

Mistaken Data / recode, retraction

A study found that a hospital program significantly reduced the number of hospitalizations…
FiveThirtyEight launches new NBA metric for predictions

Statistics / basketball, FiveThirtyEight

FiveThirtyEight has been predicting NBA games for a few years now, based on…
Fall foliage colors mapped

Maps / color, fall, foliage, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, Lauren Tierney and Joe Fox mapped fall foliage colors…
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How Intentions Changed How People Read the Same Map (The Process #60)

The Process / intention

Visualization has a way of making things feel more concrete and definite. So how is it that interpretation gets so fuzzy?
PG&E providing shapefiles, instead of a working map for shutoffs

Data Sources / PG&E, shapefile

Here in northern California, PG&E is shutting off power to thousands of households…
GitHub contribution graph to show burnout

Self-surveillance / annotation, burnout, GitHub

A quick annotation by Jonnie Hallman on Twitter: “GitHub is really good at…
Fixing the ‘impeach this’ map with a transition to a cartogram

Maps / election, impeachment

As discussed previously, the “impeach this” map has some issues. Mainly, it equates…
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How to Make Animated Visualization GIFs with ImageMagick

Tutorials / animation, ImageMagick

Using the library command-line gets you more flexibility to highlight the important parts of the data.
With terminal cancer, a patient tracks drug dose in a dashboard over her final days

Self-surveillance / dashboard, mortality

Kelly Martin died of cancer on September 30. She was able to enjoy…
Animated line chart to show the rich paying less taxes

Statistical Visualization / New York Times, rich, Stuart A. Thompson, taxes

David Leonhardt, for The New York Times, discusses the relatively low tax rates…
The early beginnings of visual thinking

Statistical Visualization / history, Howard Wainer, Michael Friendly, visual thinking

Visualization is a relatively new field. Sort of. The increased availability of data…
Differences between enterprise data visualization and data journalism

Design / Bloomberg, business, data journalism

Toph Tucker used to make graphics for Bloomberg Businessweek. Now he does enterprise…
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Visualization for Analysis vs. Visualization for an Audience (The Process #59)

The Process / analysis, audience

The visualizations are used and read differently, which requires that you approach their design differently.
Game: How many US cities can you name?

Maps / city, game, population

How many US cities can you name? Here’s a quick and fun game…
The ‘impeach this’ map has some issues

Mistaken Data / election

Philip Bump explains why the “impeach this” map is a bit dubious:
By…
Animating a lot of dots with WebGL and REGL.js

Coding / JavaScript, REGL, WebGL

A couple of weeks ago, The Washington Post visualized 13,000 school districts using…

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