Resource Links

• Ye Olde Pie Chart Debate →

  Design  |  Tags: link, pie chart

  The arguments over pie charts dates back to 1914.

• What Makes Software Good? →

  Coding  |  Tags: d3js, link, Mike Bostock

  Thoughtfulness in design from d3.js maker Mike Bostock. One of the main reasons I go with d3.js over other libraries.

• Perceptual Scaling of Map Symbols →

  Design  |  Tags: link, scaling

  Scale circles by area or by how they are actually perceived?

• How do you learn d3.js? →

  Coding  |  Tags: d3js, link

  Small projects. Decide what you want to make first, and then figure out how to do it.

• Yahoo News feed dataset for researchers →

  Data Sources  |  Tags: link, Yahoo

  A big ol’ dataset on interaction with the list of news items on the homepage.

• Grid map showdown →

  Design  |  Tags: grid map, link

  A quantitative look at which US grid layout is best.

• Little boxes →

  Design  |  Tags: link, medium

  It must be that time of year again when practitioners try to define visualization. It’s a medium. It’s continuous.

• Experimentation with globes in Blender 3D →

  Software  |  Tags: globe, link
  

  There’s also a collection of video tutorials on how to use QGIS to greater effect.

• Colors from images in R →

  Coding  |  Tags: color, link, R

  A how-to to break down images into just their colors.

• geomnet →

  Coding  |  Tags: link, R

  An R package for “Network visualization in the ‘ggplot2’ framework” by the folks at Iowa State.

• The most misleading charts of 2015, fixed →

  Mistaken Data  |  Tags: link, Quartz

  Suggestions. Not just snark.

• Squaire.js →

  Coding  |  Tags: JavaScript, link, Wall Street Journal

  JavaScript library from Wall Street Journal to make the now popular square state grid.

• k-means + d3.js →

  Coding  |  Tags: d3js, link

  The simple clustering technique implemented with d3.js.

• Do Visual Stories Make People Care? →

  Design  |  Tags: engagement, link, NPR

  The NPR Visuals team tracked user activity on their visual stories to see how people read or didn’t.

• Hexagonal Grids →

  Design  |  Tags: grid, hexagons, link

  More than you ever thought you wanted to know about hexagonal grids.

• rchess →

  Software  |  Tags: chess, link, R

  An R package for chess move generation and validation.

• tigris →

  Software  |  Tags: link, R, shapefile

  A package to help you download and map TIGER shapefiles in R.

• What to do with small data →

  Statistics  |  Tags: big data, link

  When the algorithms and methods for big data don’t work.

• NFL play-by-play data →

  Data Sources  |  Tags: link, sports

  Download play-by-play and standings data scraped from the NFL site, dating as far back as 1920.

• Seaborn →

  Coding  |  Tags: link, Python

  A Python library for visualization. Surprised I just heard of it.