From Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky:
In 2003, Tableau set out to pioneer self-service…
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Salesforce to acquire Tableau
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Increasing ocean temperatures, decreasing ice
For National Geographic, Kennedy Elliot made a series of heatmaps that show the…
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Simulation of fan emotions during a basketball game
During a game, the range of emotions can vary widely across a crowd.…
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Search through 3m nonprofit tax records
ProPublica just released a search tool for nonprofit tax records:
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Missing the Trees for the Forest (The Process #43)
Don’t step so far away from the data that you miss the details that provide meaning to the overviews.
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Big storm on the way. Oh wait, no, it’s a cloud of ladybugs
Apparently ladybugs migrate this time of year, and it’s enough to show up…
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The role of cartography in early global explorations
For Lapham’s Quarterly, Elizabeth Della Zazzera turns back the clock to maps used…
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What to expect at data visualization job interviews
Krist Wongsuphasawat, who recently interviewed for a healthy helping of visualization jobs, outlines…
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Mapping Bob Ross
Fathom Information Design recently made tools to find patterns in documents of text.…
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Map of the most popular people replacing the cities they lived in
For The Pudding, Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg used Wikipedia pageviews to replace…
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Jeopardy! winners making chart jokes
James Holzhauer is on a record-breaking Jeopardy! win streak. It’s not so much…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, May 2019 Roundup (The Process #42)
Every month I collect links to visualization tools and resources. Here’s the good stuff for May 2019.
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Charts as a medium for expression
Christine Sun Kim, a deaf artist known for her work visualizing and creating…
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Why some Asian accents swap Ls and Rs
Vox delves into why Ls and Rs often get replaced by Asian speakers…
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Getting to zero coal in Britain
For The Guardian, Niko Kommenda shows the decrease in coal usage for power…
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Rise of the summer sequel
For The New York Times, Keith Collins shows the growing popularity of summer…
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Setting Visualization Expectations to Avoid Audience Confusion (The Process #41)
People misinterpret charts all of the time, because they go in with the wrong expectations before they even fully interpret what a chart is about.
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Counting and illustrating Game of Thrones deaths
Shelly Tan, for The Washington Post, has been counting on-screen deaths in Game…
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Cost of College
We know that more education usually equals more income, but as the cost of education continues to rise, the challenge to earn a college degree also increases.
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Using statistics for basketball efficiency
Ivana Seric is a data scientist for the Philadelphia 76ers who tries to…