Here is the good stuff for June 2019.
Nathan Yau
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Visualization Tools and Resources, June 2019 Roundup (The Process #46)
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Unproven aggression detectors, more surveillance
In some public places, such as schools and hospitals, microphones installed with software…
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Wikipedia views and every line of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
In the biggest crossover event of the century, Tom Lum used the Wikipedia…
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A view on despair
Sonja Kuijpers used abstract imagery to represent some sobering numbers:
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Machine boss
For The New York Times, Kevin Roose on the possibility of machines becoming…
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Four Cs of data and design
Ben Fry using the “tropiest of design tropes”, describes his goals for visualization.…
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Scale of the Hong Kong protest
You know those sped up videos where there’s a long line for something…
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Publishing Data Graphics Online (The Process #45)
After you’ve made your carefully designed data graphics, you probably want to share them online at some point. This is how I do it.
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Millions of dollars in tax breaks — because of a mapping error
A small discrepancy in a couple of shapefiles led to a misclassification of…
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Home zoning in major cities
The single-family home. It’s part of the American dream, but it can be…
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Help people find themselves in the data
Researchers went around rural Pennsylvania, showing people the charts above and asking what…
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Story formats for data
Financial Times, in an effort to streamline a part of the data journalism…
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How Much the Everyday Changes When You Have Kids
I compared time use for those with children under 18 against those without. Here’s where the minutes go.
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Four
Got a chuckle out of me:
Me explaining why standardizing your variables is…
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Choosing Your Charts (The Process #44)
Assuming you have a dataset in hand, how do you decide what visualization method to use?
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Readability of privacy policies for big tech companies
For The New York Times, Kevin Litman-Navarro plotted the length and readability of…
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Runway ML makes machine learning easier to use for creators
Machine learning can feel like a foreign concept only useful to those with…
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Myth of the impartial machine
In its inaugural issue, Parametric Press describes how bias can easily come about…
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Salesforce to acquire Tableau
From Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky:
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Increasing ocean temperatures, decreasing ice
For National Geographic, Kennedy Elliot made a series of heatmaps that show the…