There might be times when you want to visualize data with area, but…
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Simple tool for proportional area charts
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, May 2024 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for the month.
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On the PolicyViz Podcast →
I had a chat with Jon Schwabish on The PolicyViz Podcast. We talked…
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Analysis of text messages with an ex-boyfriend
Teresa Ibarra used Facebook Messenger to text with her now ex-boyfriend almost a…
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Visualize This: Publication Day, Fourteen Years Later
The second edition of Visualize This is published. The book made its way…
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Flight turbulence on the Singapore Airlines flight, visually explained
Last week, a Singapore Airlines flight experienced turbulence that led to one person…
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When feelings of nostalgia peak
YouGov surveyed 2,000 adults asking them when was the best and worst decades…
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WildChat, a dataset of ChatGPT interactions
In case you need a large dataset to train your chatbot — and…
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Dashboard for L.A. Dodgers baseball
To keep track of performance, Matt Stiles made the Dodgers Data Bot, which…
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Writing a Book About Visualization
Reading the words of my younger self and revisiting that guy’s process was… educational.
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Energy surges due to solar storm
The recent solar storms brought pretty lights to the night sky in some…
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Change in housing prices where you live
I don’t know about you, but where I live, the housing prices keep…
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Visualize This (2nd ed.): A real book that’s almost here
Visualize This is a real book now! The official publication date is May…
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Mapping Hacker News
Wilson Lin used an abstract map to visualize 40 million posts and comments…
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Visualization of flying into a black hole
Assuming you were still alive flying into a black hole, NASA’s Goddard Space…
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Visualize This (2nd ed.): Finding the Best Visualization Tools
There are a lot of tools to visualize data. Some are visualization-specific. Some are tools that let you make charts but are focused on other data things. New apps come out with new features that promise new things. This can make it tricky to find the best visualization tool.
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Shifting to batteries for electricity
To capture solar energy for use in the evening, batteries have grown in…
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Does the data make sense?
When you analyze data, there are times when a trend, pattern, or outlier jumps out and smacks you in the face. Or, you might calculate results that seem surprising. Maybe they’re real, but maybe not.
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Simulation for Probability of Success
Imagine that you try to do something and there’s a 20% chance of success. If you try to do the thing six times, what is the probability that you succeed at least once?
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Map of magnetic fields in the Milky Way
Based on data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Villanova University…