Choropleth maps, the ones where regions are filled with colors based on data,…
Nathan Yau
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Choosing color palettes for choropleth maps
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Percentage of People Who Married, Given Your Age
Or, given your age, the percentage of fish left in the sea. Here’s a chart.
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AI-generated celebrity faces look real
Researchers from NVIDIA published work with artificial intelligence algorithms, or more specifically, generative…
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Visual explainer for hierarchical modeling
Hierarchical models, or multilevel models, are used to represent data that might vary…
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Charts show time between assaults and public allegations
As the list of sexual assault allegations grows for Harvey Weinstein (and many…
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Project Lincoln from Adobe aims to reverse data visualization workflow
With data visualization, you start with the data and let it guide geometry,…
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Data journalism lessons available from ProPublica Data Institute
ProPublica runs a small annual workshop to teach journalists a bit about data…
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What Makes a Good Data Scientist at a Small Company →
Being good with data, sure. Then there are other things.
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Sorting algorithms visualized with animated color palette
I bet you woke up this morning thinking, “I haven’t seen a good…
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How to Make a Semicircle Plot in R
It’s the half cousin of the bubble plot with less overlap and more straight edges.
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Heart rate during layoff
Add another chart to the genre of heart rate during a significant event.…
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Visualizing fertilization of egg by sperm at the atomic level, with a Star Wars theme
Don Ingber and Charles Reilly of the Wyss Institute used data at the…
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4 Tools to Pick Your Chart Colors
These are the quick and simple tools I use to pick colors to represent data.
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World Tile Grid Map in ggplot2 →
A straightforward tutorial on using squares instead of geographic boundaries.
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CARTOColors is a quick set of color schemes to copy
Picking colors is one my favorite things to do with visualization when I’m…
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A study of the geographic forms in cartography
Cartographer Geraldine Sarmiento from Mapzen explores the drawing forms in cartography, such as…
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American Daily Routine
Sleep. Work. Play. The times and everything in between change depending on who you talk to.
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Mapping happiness
Gallup surveyed Americans about their well-being across various factors. National Geographic gets into…
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Statistical diversity in US newsrooms
If a news organization wants to talk about the world in a fair…
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Gyroscope to automatically track your health data
I’m surprised I’m just now hearing about Gyroscope. It’s an app that automatically…
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