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The second edition of Visualize This is published. The book made its way…

Jer Thorp has combined birding and data visualization into a unique course called…

Getting started with data visualization can be tricky because of all the resources…

An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R by Gareth James, Daniela…

It’s nice that visualization has developed over the years to the point that there are dedicated classes for it, but I also like learning informally.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning, by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and…

Eventually you gotta make the charts for yourself and not for some expert’s approval.

Set a strong base, and build whatever you want after that.

Learn about new visualization things, but also get actual work done.

Maybe it’s better to focus on the present to do the best with what we have, which moves us towards the future.

The Royal Statistical Society published ten lessons governments should takeaway from this year,…

Everyone’s a beginner at some point.

Obviously, knowing nothing can be a negative, but some of my favorite work came about when I didn’t know how to do something or what to expect.

This week, people were taking a closer look at the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Covid-19 status page (again), which led to an unnecessary pile-on.

For those new to visualization, learning all of the methods, implementations, tools, and guidelines can seem like a daunting task. Not to mention everything that happens before the actual visualizing, such as analysis, data formatting, and context-making. You don’t have to learn it all at once.

Visualization is still a relatively young field, so people learn about and how…

In visualization, there are tools, templates, and defaults, which are meant to be copied and reused. Then there are data graphics that are designed with a specific purpose and dataset, which are something more than a certain chart type.

Most people interested in visualization have made a chart with Microsoft Excel. For your basic charts, it’s really easy, and it works well for what it was intended for. The process of visualizing data with methods beyond the standard chart types can be more challenging at times.

Mikhail Popov, a data scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, led a workshop on…