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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a map using Google Maps; how to customize that map manually or by importing data from a spreadsheet; and how to publish it on your site. Create a basic map Start by heading to maps.google.com. Click on the menu icon on the top left-hand side of the screen and select “Your...
['Design', 'Maps Dynamics Crm', 'Google Maps', 'Maps', 'Google']
They offer electric service to 1.8 million customers and natural gas service to 1.7 million customers in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. As per records, they serve more than 6 million Michiganders. Consumer energy produces much of the electricity you want in Michigan. Their plants use many kinds of fuel sources. Having va...
['Consumer', 'Outage', 'Energy', 'Maps']
在codepen 上看到一個利用d3 做的不錯作品,試著模仿做泰國的機場地圖。今天要介紹使用d3(v5)來繪製泰國的機場地圖並計算距離,先看看完成圖。(github連結) 一、資料處理 首先,我們要取的地圖資料,在這一次的練習,我們需要使用泰國機場和泰國國土的geo資料,在d3裡面,地圖利用geojson檔或是json檔匯入。 泰國機場資料 humdata : 在這裡找到機場資料,檔案類型為.csv檔,透過qgis工具,直接匯出.geojson或是.json檔。 2. 泰國國土邊界資料 humdata: 在相同的網站找到泰國邊界的資料,資料很完整,有分成0級到三級的分類,府的分類為第一級,下載之後為.shp的檔,不過因為...
['D3 Geo', 'Map', 'Vue', 'D3', 'Frontend']
HOW TO USE GOOGLE MAPS’ NEW EXPLORE, OFFERS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FEATURES These highlights incorporate an Explore Nearby tab, an Offers include and new For You tab. You can peruse progressively about these highlights here. The thought behind every one of these highlights is that inside the google m application, you wi...
['Features', 'How To', 'Google Maps', 'Maps', 'Google']
For those who might be unfamiliar with NYC Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), can you give us a quick introduction to the agency? Jonathan: Sure thing — the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s mission is to promote promotes the quality and affordability of the city’s housing and the strength ...
['History', 'Technology', 'Housing', 'Maps', 'NYC']
Practical applications Each of the raster pixels contains the elevation value and it can be decoded using this formula: height = -10000 + ((R * 256 * 256 + G * 256 + B) * 0.1) Elevation data provides height above the sea level in meters for every single place in the world, measured for regions of approximately 30x30...
['Cartography', 'Elevation', 'Geography', 'GIS', 'Maps']
Have you ever googled for recommendations of places to hang out, and had to scroll through lists of recommendations to figure out which one is closest, recommendation by recommendation? I am sure you have. And what if you had some way of visualizing locations of all these places on listings easily? I built gowherene¹...
['Clojure', 'Singapore', 'Maps', 'Weekend', 'Recommendations']
How to Migrate from Google Maps to TomTom Maps in 8 Easy Steps We’ll go through how to transition different elements of your map from Google to TomTom, as well as where the API differences lie. TomTom Developers Follow Aug 23 · 7 min read Using the TomTom SDK for Web as your new mapping solution has never been easier...
['Location', 'Programming', 'Developer Tools', 'Maps', 'Software Development']
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon on August 19th, MAP community welcomed the guest Jay, Marketing Director of MAP Protocol, sharing the topic: The Future of Cross-Chain The AMA started with sharing with the community on MAP Protocol new revamp websites and cross-chain solution upgrades. MAP Protocol also has just revamped...
['Crosschain', 'Map Protocol', 'Blockchain', 'Maps']
src: google (For those who are restricted by Medium paywall, I have Shared the story here in Dev community) If you know how `Array.map()` works in javascript, you can jump to IMPLEMENTATION. What is Array.map in javascript? A map is a built-in function of Arrays in javascript which helps us iterate over each indivi...
['Front End Development', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Map', 'Tech']
The UK Office for National Statistics' Open Geography Portal provides a range of geospatial datasets under the Open Government Licence 3.0. Digital vector boundaries for different administrative and statistical geographies, postcode centroids and lookups are all available to freely download. This post will show you how...
['API', 'Government', 'GIS', 'Maps', 'Open Data']
Math was never my strong suit in school. I was able to get straight A’s until I hit 4th grade and the multiplication tables got above x11. I was able still able to get B’s and C’s in math until I hit 10th grade and they expected me to start adding together letters. Algebra brought my GPA down considerably and I ended u...
['Math', 'Homework', 'Students', 'United States', 'Maps']
Since Google Maps launched 15 years ago, they have revolutionised the world of digital maps and now help over one billion users get from A to B (and so much more) It’s almost impossible to think of a time before we could enter an address into our smartphones and just go. Since its release in 2005, Google Maps have evo...
['UX', 'UI', 'Maps']
Simple Plotly Tutorials Image by Author Animated maps are an efficient way to visualize and communicate data with geographic properties. In this tutorial, you will learn how to deploy the Plotly Express package in Python to quickly make beautiful maps with interactive features. Plotly is one of the fastest growing v...
['Python', 'Pandas', 'Plotly', 'Maps']
Antiques have a really special quality, they possess the ability to attract people towards their beauty. Antiques tend to showcase how our ancestors thought and executed their ideas. Every idea is unique but it is mostly inspired by someone else’s ideas these days, however, antique items have exclusively distinct featu...
['Online Marketplace', 'Truegether', 'Maps', 'Education', 'Ebay Alternative']
We need better maps for historical data We need standards for mapping historical data. Because right now those maps show identical data in many different ways, and that makes world history difficult to understand. Worse, the maps convey fuzzy or incorrect data, and are created ad-hoc in raster formats, so all efforts ...
['Mapping', 'World', 'Humanity', 'Histoy', 'Maps']
I’ve been asked a few times why the name Loose Goat? There are no humorous tales of a goat nor actually any connection between the director of the company and goats. So those lines of thought are knocked on the head straight away. So why? When I was thinking of setting up my own business which I knew was going to be ...
['GIS', 'Startup', 'Maps']
Announcing UrbanFootprint’s Best-In-Class Web Cartography for Urban Planners We’ve been working hard to incorporate customer feedback and are excited to unveil the most powerful web-based planning and analysis tool for generating robust and visually compelling maps and analysis. Read on to learn about all the new feat...
['Cartography', 'Urban Planning', 'Cities', 'Maps', 'Product']
With Google Maps, we can travel all over the world without ever leaving our houses. Check out art in the Louvre in Paris, or walk along the base of Mount Everest in Nepal. That’s why we’re so excited to announce our new quest, to help learners get even more from the Google Map tool. Introducing Creating with Google Map...
['Qwiklabs', 'Google Maps', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Maps']
Science Is This Cave Painting A Prehistoric Map To Antarctica? NEWSCHAN — 3 JUNE 2020 What was once thought by scientists to be a simple prehistoric cave painting of a horse has proven to be much more with the help of quantum image processing (QUIP). Equipped with QUIP technologies, scientists from the Trans-Oceanic...
['History', 'Antarctica', 'Science Fiction', 'Maps', 'News']
The 22nd Century brought an era of neo-nationalism and neo-imperialism. America became a powder keg of ultra-nationalism in the West. While in the East, Russia began a campaign of expansion to build a new Russian Empire. The spark that would set off the Russo-American war of 2123 was the Russian invasion of Alaska. Wit...
['Future', 'Fiction', 'Maps']
Hi everyone, in this topic, I will explain how to display a map in your Flutter application, most of the applications are using Google Map Services, but in this example, we are going to use another service MapBox which I found personally very interesting. In this example, we are going to achieve something like this: ...
['Flutter Ui', 'Flutter', 'Mapbox', 'Maps', 'Flutter App Development']
Tableau dashboard — Flight Routes Tableau, with version 2019.2, has added a pair of geospatial functions that has eased the complexity in producing geospatial route visualizations. These are MakeLine and MakePoint functions. Another important function “Buffer” was made part of Tableau in version 2020.1 that helps to c...
['Data Visualization', 'Tableau', 'Geospatial Analytics', 'Maps', 'Geospatial']
If you have ever created a custom callout and want to add one or more buttons(TouchableOpacity) for capturing onPress events then it will not work as React Native maps behave differently here and won’t allow send the onPress events to the views. To get this working you need to wrap the View/TouchableOpacity in the <Ca...
['Callout', 'Map Annotations', 'React Native', 'Maps', 'React Native Maps']
Free map technology allows us to visualize the Inca Empire in another way, opening a range of possibilities for the study of our history. The Tawantinsuyo (Inca Empire) map. Puedes leer este post en castellano aquí. A few days ago I found about the existence of a platform called OpenHistoricalMap and that someone th...
['Openstreetmap', 'History', 'Peru', 'Openhistoricalmap', 'Maps']
#IamaGDE series presents: Google Maps Welcome to #IamaGDE — a series of spotlights presenting Google Developer Experts (GDEs) from across the globe. Discover their stories, passions, and highlights of their community work. Homing Tam, Maps Google Developer Expert Homing Tam is a product manager at Lalamove, an on-de...
['Gde', 'Expert', 'Maps']
Add index.js file for the project’s main entry js. For simplicity, we will initiate an Openlayers Map instance in this file and start with two layers. Layers are basic units that can be rendered onto the map. Notice in line 8 of index.js, we added a new TileLayer instance with source from OSM (Open Street Map). In lin...
['Docker', 'JavaScript', 'Tilelayer', 'Maps', 'Openlayers']
Maps are widely-known conventional models of the real world, serving as miniature representations of some spatial phenomena, trend, or relationship. The map’s role has been transformed from being an artifact of design and a navigational tool, to an interface that stores and communicates spatial information. Here, maps ...
['Cartography', 'Policy Making', 'Map']
States like to recycle county names that have been used elsewhere and it makes for fun headlines, such as when Hillary Clinton in 2016 only won one Clinton county and even then it was close. As I was procrastinating a few actual analyses, this seemed like a fun thing to check out so here is the link to an interactive d...
['Counties And Districts', 'Names', 'Maps']
For the interoperation within a multi-layer blockchain systems, MAP protocol proposed a pegged subchain mechanism to achieve interoperability. We use Ethereum as an example. Suppose there are two Layer2 blockchains(say chainA and chainB) pegged to the Ethereum mainnet(Here “pegged” means any node in Ethereum mainnet c...
['Crosschain', 'Map', 'Marcopoloprotocol', 'Map Protocol', 'Blockchain']
MXC × Map Protocol — Reached a Cooperation to Jointly Work on Cross-chain Solutions for the Internet of Things MAP Protocol Follow Apr 6 · 2 min read MXC and MAP Protocol announced their cooperation. MAP Protocol is an open and fully decentralized chain-to-chain interoperability protocol. Through this cooperation, MXC...
['Crosschain', 'Map', 'Marcopoloprotocol', 'Map Protocol', 'Blockchain']
In our previous article, we wrote about the difference between raster tiles and vector tiles, http://commons.pelagios.org/2017/09/rdg-update-the-roman-empire-vector-map-project/. Now, we will be able to study the outcome. The technicalities of the process will be discussed, and the result as of now can be studied here ...
['Rdg2018', 'Maps']
In addition to Ward, numerous other distinguished Texans, many of whose names appear on the maps as county and city names of Texas,[3] are signatories attesting to the quality and accuracy of De Cordova’s work. U.S. Senators Thomas J. Rusk and Sam Houston, and U.S. Congressmen David S. Kaufman and Timothy Pillsbury al...
['Texas', 'History', 'Maps']
The mouth of the Sabine River, where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico south of the City of Sabine, was the starting point for the Joint Boundary Commission’s survey. Although the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty established the boundary between Spain and the United States beginning at the mouth of the Sabine River, it had nev...
['Texas', 'History', 'United States', 'Maps']
Notable features in Texas include the towns of San Antonio de Bejar, Matagorda, Nacogdoches, the missions of San Saba and La Bahia, various forts, including El Paso, and Indian settlements indicated by tipis. The Neches, Colorado, Trinity, Guadalupe, San Marcos, Brazos, Nueces, and Rio del Norte (the Rio Grande) Rivers...
['Texas', 'History', 'Mexico', 'Maps']
Señor Topos, Archie Lineas, and Jack Scribner have been wandering along the papery folds of an anonymous mountain range for days, clutching handfuls of maps, scratching two beards, and sullying one balding head. They’ve been wracking over the coordinates for Paglen’s rendezvous, but instead have stumbled upon a globall...
['Cartography', 'Getting Lost', 'Politics', 'Walking', 'Maps']
I had been following SotM since 2017. Being involved in OSM through the medium of YouthMappers and Kathmandu Living Labs(KLL), I was extremely interested to attend the 2019 conference as soon as I heard about it. The conference being held at Bangladesh was another attraction. I had heard a lot about the dazzling street...
['Openstreetmap', 'Bangladesh', 'Dhaka', 'Maps', 'Nepal']
Now coming to HashMap it implements Map interface and is part of the Java Collections framework. HashMap allows retrieval of values based on a given key, e.g: “key1”->value1, “key2”->value2. We first insert the values corresponding to a key and later we can retrieve them using the keys. In short, HashMap is backed by ...
['Programming', 'Hashmap', 'Java', 'Java8', 'Maps']
Remote Navigation for Journalists Hacks/Hackers Nigeria’s November 2018 community meetup was all about equipping participants with the skills to use and apply visuals and satellite imagery simulations to their investigations and storytelling. Hack/Hackers Africa Follow Feb 12, 2019 · 3 min read Journalists explore th...
['3d', 'Navigation', 'Google', 'Open Data', 'Maps']
Here’s a map of every state legislator in the U.S. as of February 2019, with districts and elected official data from the Cicero database. Knowing that space doesn’t necessarily equal people, we decided to first visualize with dots indicating the center point of each legislative district. However, we wanted users to ha...
['Politics', 'Dataviz', 'Elections', 'Maps']
Imagine making your Android app with location-awareness being as simple as installing a library and observing location data and settings: Installation Using Gradle On project-level build.gradle, add: allprojects { repositories { maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' } } } On app-level build.gradle, add: implementa...
['Location', 'Android App Development', 'Android', 'AndroidDev', 'Maps']
Folium: Folium is a powerful data visualisation library in Python that was built primarily to help people visualize geospatial data. With Folium, one can create a map of any location in the world as long as its latitude and longitude values are known. We can make maps with different type of tiles like:- Mapbox Brigh...
['Maps']
Geological map Britain William Smith 1815 I have done a lot of mapping and field trips with many people. I met people from Canada, the US, Paraguay, South Africa, Poland, Australia, France, India. I worked under many academics from a wide field and from many universities. In the spirit of the Moine field trip, I wrote...
['Mapping', 'Poems On Medium', 'Maps', 'Poem', 'Geology']
Highlight: Million’s ARP increased to a fixed 120% I. Team Update On March 18th, Sam Jia, Head of MarcoPolo Protocol Community, attended an AMA event in MarcoPolo Protocol Turkish Telegram group. He focused on MarcoPolo Protocol Marketing aspect, shared the current marketing situation includes community, media partne...
['Blockchain', 'Map', 'Marcopay', 'Marcopolo Protocol', 'Weekly Report']
No More Forgetting to Input ERP Charges — Hello Automated ERP! ERP, standing for Electronic Road Pricing, is a system used to manage road congestion in Singapore. Drivers are charged when they pass through ERP gantries during peak hours. ERP rates vary for different roads and time periods based on the traffic conditio...
['Tech', 'Data', 'Maps']
Grab-Posisi — Southeast Asia’s First Comprehensive GPS Trajectory Dataset At Grab, thousands of bookings happen daily via the Grab app. The driver phones and GPS devices enable us to collect large-scale GPS trajectories. Apart from the time and location of the object, GPS trajectories are also characterised by other ...
['Dataset', 'Gps', 'Maps']
Maps help us understand what’s going on as the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the globe. Here’s what you need to know in order to read public health maps with an informed eye. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center’s online map, as of 8:25 am (EST) on March 23, 2020. 1. Where did the data come from? When...
['Cartography', 'Data Visualization', 'Covid 19', 'Data Literacy', 'Maps']
By Neeraj Mishra , Lara PuReum Yim , Sufyan Selamet , Nagur Hassan & Summit Saurav Remember landing at an airport or going to your favourite mall and the hassle of finding the pickup spot when you booked a cab? When there are about a million entrances, it can get particularly annoying trying to find the right pickup l...
['Apps', 'Tech', 'Data', 'Maps']
Save Your Place with Grab! Do you find it tedious to type and search for your destination or have a hard time remembering that address of the friend you are going to meet? It can be really confusing when it comes to keeping track of so many addresses that you frequent on a regular basis. To solve this pain point, Grab...
['Data', 'Maps']
For years Google Maps has been an unmatched map provider. However, in recent years a lot of other map APIs have introduced and they are giving Google Maps tough competition. Is Mapbox better than Google Maps? The question is a bit tricky since it depends on the needs of your specific application and features. In this ...
['Startup', 'Google Maps', 'Mapbox', 'Proptech', 'Maps']
Background Tanaka contours, also known as illuminated contours, are a unique way of visualizing elevation. Tanaka Kitiro (developer of said method), used light from a northwesterly direction and varying line width & color based on the line’s angle. This guide is an adaption of Anita Graser’s excellent guide to creati...
['Cartography', 'Mars', 'GIS', 'Maps', 'Python']
Fellow Bithumb Users, This is No.1 Digital Asset Platform, Bithumb. We are pleased to announce that Assemble Protocol(ASM), MAP Protocol(MAP) will be added on KRW market today. The details about the event are as follows. We greatly appreciate your support and look forward to your active participation. 1. Details o...
['Event', 'Map', 'Bithumb', 'Adding', 'Asm']
Microsoft has published an interactive world map that shows in real time how many officially registered corona infections, cures and deaths are measured in the affected countries. The Covid-19 Tracker uses Microsoft Bing Maps, the company’s own map technology. The world map highlights which areas are affected by means...
['Co Vid 19', 'Microsoft', 'Bing', 'Maps', 'Coronavirus']
States in India and Their Capital and Language in 2020: There are total 28 states and 9 union territories in India. States in India with capital is one of the most common areas of General Knowledge. India states and their capital and language is an easier topic to memorize and also easier to score. Here we will provide...
['Culture', 'Politics', 'Maps', 'India', 'General Knowledge']
MAP Protocol Weekly Report #39 (September 14th — September 20th) I. Team Update We have entered September for almost three weeks. It might be a short period of time for a person’s lifetime but is relatively long for a startup. Since November 8th, 2019, MAP Protocol has entered the blockchain field for almost 10 month...
['Mapprotocol', 'Blockchain', 'Weekly Report', 'Map']
In this post, we will discuss the internal working of hashmap. Being the famous question in the interview lets discuss the internal working of hashmap.Before discussing how the hashmap works let discuss some of the important terminologies which will be used further in the blog. Hashmap is a java class which stores the...
['Core Java', 'Hashmap', 'Internal Working', 'Maps']
####Für Deutsche Version nach unten scrollen#### Visit us at: app.23degrees.io When I create a graphic with 23°, I have 3 different options to display the “Value Range”, i.e. the displayed value range of the axes in charts or the legend on the map. Click on the pen icon to open the editor. You will find the “Value R...
['Data Journalism', 'Ddj', 'How To', 'Dataviz', 'Maps']
This map served as my key inspiration for Batik. The way I see it, the map captures the essence of Batik: it’s ornate and intricate, but also balanced. The design Mapbox recommends starting with a taxonomy chart when creating a map style. Just like a component library, the taxonomy chart helps to keep most of my file...
['Built With Mapbox', 'Design Thinking', 'Design Process', 'Craft', 'Maps']
Jorge Luis Borges — essayist, magical realist pioneer, and all-round dude — once wrote a story about a country where their obsession with mapmaking had reached a point where the maps that were being made were the same size as the country they were mapping. These maps were as accurate as it is possible to get, detailing...
['Science', 'Truth', 'Philosophy', 'Maps']
photo by @erol from unsplash If you’re a Tableau administrator or author, your life is going to get a lot easier. For Tableau Server deployments, particularly large ones, managing your data can be complicated. Under the hood, large Tableau deployments integrate data from many sources with varying attributes and qualit...
['Data Catalog', 'Tableau', 'Dataviz', 'Tableau Server', 'Metadata']
Screenshot of ‘The World in Tune’ Arranging the world by la-ti-da (instead of latitude) Early this year I made a big decision. I quitted freelancing and started at Deloitte, a big consultancy firm. A major switch, in several ways. But I felt this was the step I had to take. Working as a freelancer can be ‘lonely’ at ...
['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Iib', 'Deloitte']
Heavy content warning: almost everything I talk about is disturbing. — George Kendall stood in front of a group of men holding long, German-style handguns pointed at his chest. He probably wore a long white linen shirt tucked into his breeches and embellished his neck with a fine lace cravat. At the signal, his execu...
['Capital Punishment', 'Death Penalty', 'Data Science', 'Dataviz']
So far 2019 has featured three special U.S. Congressional elections. It’s tempting to read the tea leaves of special elections to predict how political parties will fare in the next election. Especially considering all three special elections in 2019 are in highly-contested swing states; North Carolina and Pennsylvania...
['Dataviz', 'Elections', 'Election 2020']
by Josh Arias This is the second post in ZingChart’s Stopwatch Features series. This series of posts is intended to show you how quickly and easily you can create and animate a chart using the powerful JavaScript library, ZingChart. Watch the video below to see how easily this can be achieved. For a step-by-step walk...
['Data Visualization', 'Graph', 'JavaScript', 'Data Viz', 'Charts']
Data Visualized Data can be a scary thing. Data can be abstract, obscure. It sometimes disguises as complex charts and mind-blowing Excel sheets. It can be incredibly hard to digest if you don’t pay a real close look. Yet in the post-information era big data, alt data, quant data… data controls everything that our wo...
['Bloomberg', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Branding', 'Design']
The unique benefit of being mWater is that we have more exposure to WASH workers than perhaps any other entity in the sector. We get to work with small water user committees and the largest iNGOs and every academic researcher, government office, and multilateral agency in between in the 165 countries represented in our...
['Ngo', 'Data', 'Dataviz', 'Aïd', 'Water']
(A French version of this article is available here) At the beginning of May in London, we took part in the Strata Data Conference, a well known international event about data. An opportunity for us to stand out in an increasingly complex and congested ecosystem, to deep dive into the current trends, and refine our un...
['Datalab', 'Data Visualization', 'Visual Analytics', 'Dataviz', 'Data Science']
For a long time, we here at CLEVER°FRANKE have been working on a number of self-initiated projects. Eventually, we decided to collect them all on a single platform to give an overview of these experiments and to show you our explorations. In this article, I will share the value of conducting experiments for both our te...
['Technology', 'Data', 'Dataviz', 'Design', 'Experiment']
Swedish national trends of antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, and sedatives utilization in women Nordic open-access databases Nordic countries have databases with national aggregated data on, e.g. drug utilization, openly available. These databases are a great asset — you can investigate national trends fo...
['Rstats', 'R', 'Data', 'Tidyverse', 'Dataviz']
Styling a chart and improving the text using {forcats} and {ggtext} and {scales} After attending the inspiring and eye opening talk about data communication by John Burn-Murdoch at the 2021 RStudio global conference I have decided to show how to put in practice one of his tips for better data communication: democratis...
['Data', 'Tidyverse', 'Dataviz', 'Ggplot2', 'Data Science']
Data visualization, in the simplest terms, is a graphical representation of data to understand patterns and communicate insights. I reckon we all are now aware of the importance of dataviz in the current times. But, we still need to focus on the essential principles for creating effective and authentic visualizations....
['Data Visualization', 'Visual Design', 'Dataviz', 'Visualization', 'Data Science']
As a visual learner, I often use data visualization to present the results of surveys and other types of self-report measures (e.g., psychological scales). In the 2019 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, I gave a half-day workshop on how to visualize assessment and survey results effectiv...
['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Ggplot2', 'R Programming', 'Surveys']
If you skip the rest of this article about the nuances and complexities of vaccination data, please remember this: all of the prevention measures (masks, distancing, hand washing) that we’re practicing now need to be part of our lives for the foreseeable future, particularly with new COVID-19 variants in circulation. ...
['Public Health', 'Data Visualization', 'Covid 19', 'Communications Planning', 'Dataviz']
What Will I Tell You? As I mentioned in my previous article, visualization is a key point in the data science world. The primary goal of any data science project is to create value. Regardless of the domain, Data Science teams somehow touch the heart of the business and play an important role in every decision that ca...
['Datapane', 'Dataviz', 'Plotly', 'Streamlit']
Interactive Simulation with Tableau and Jupytab Quickly create and deploy simulation tools and dashboards, by connecting directly Tableau to your Python Jupyter notebooks, and spend your time on the data, not on building visualizations Brian Tribondeau Apr 15·15 min read Multi-Dimensional overview of the Iris Dataset...
['Jupyter Notebook', 'Tableau', 'Dataviz', 'Pandas', 'Python']
How to craft good-looking plots with Excel Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash For most visualizations, I use tools like Datawrapper or Tableau. They offer a more or less simple way to visualize data nicely. But occasionally, you cannot use an external tool, maybe because of compliance guidelines, or you want to reu...
['Data Visualization', 'Excel', 'Dataviz', 'Data Science']
What is employee turnover and why do I need an employee turnover dashboard anyway? “The ratio of the number of employees that leave a company through attrition, dismissal, or resignation during a period to the number of employees on payroll during the same period.” — businessdictionary Employee mobility is at its pea...
['Human Resources', 'Tableau', 'Dataviz', 'Design', 'Visualization']
Besides some plain text that explains where we are heading to and what problems we solve, the page also features delightful graphics and several exciting videos, including a 360-degree panoramic capture of one of our applications. We have even enabled our recent DataViz applications for download, including complete Uni...
['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Augmented Reality', 'Virtual Reality', 'Unity']
People are generally lazy, but the laziness can be overridden through aesthetically pleasing content. We want visualizations that effortlessly communicates the core idea. The new Tableau Mapbox Extension now enables you to do just that with 3D visualizations and beautiful Geospatial Analytics. It can do clustering, gr...
['Dataviz', 'Mapbox', 'Tableau']
Another ForwardJS has come and gone in San Francisco and as usual, I had a blast while I was there. This time around, I was representing Qlik with a sponsored workshop, so it was my first crack at getting Qlik Core into the hands of fresh-faced developers new to the engine — and here’s some things I learned. An exampl...
['Data Visualization', 'Docker', 'Github', 'Qlik', 'Dataviz']
The Data Visualization Society (DVS) kicked off its first challenge on March 10th and since I’m an active member, I thought I’d make something. Elijah Meeks made public an anonymized collection of data that was entered by the DVS community when they joined the group about a 2 weeka ago. Here’s the prompt: I’m one of t...
['Cartography', 'Datahumanism', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Buckminster Fuller']
It’s been just a little over one week since #teaching-vis has launched on the Data Visualisation Society (DVS) Slack. And it’s quite something. We’re a mixed bunch that includes academics, consultants, researchers, designers, and dataviz enthusiasts. We teach students, co-workers, organisations, scientists, journalis...
['Teaching', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Colour', 'Design']
Manage Talent — Not Time, and Other Tips From a Team Leader I started working at Accurat as a data visualization designer back in 2013, when we were about ten people gathered around one big desk and most projects were all hands on deck. As the company grew and we took on more clients — and bigger ones — I took on a le...
['Development', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Design', 'Leadership']
Harim is a Korean nuclear engineer by training who has worked in Abu Dhabi. She learned data visualization on her own and is an avid Tableau user. She’s most passionate about using data viz to debunk myths people have about nuclear energy, which she sees as key to low-carbon energy and solving climate change, the most ...
['Careers', 'Data Visualization', 'Climate Change', 'Dataviz', 'Nuclear']
How to embed transparent Tableau visualizations into portals and apps. Should I do it? Alex Eskinasy Jun 2·4 min read Back in 2018, Tableau released a much wanted feature to allow dataviz artists build dashboards with transparent backgrounds. The #datafam community quickly embraced this feature and started sharing som...
['Transparency', 'Tableau', 'Dataviz', 'Datafam', 'Power Bi']
While accessing Tableau basic concepts, I found it difficult to get the relevant content in a single place or in a single website, so I came up with an idea to curate it in the form of simple and yet effective reading material. Data visualization is the graphical representation of information and data. Data visualizat...
['Tableau', 'Dashboard', 'Dataviz', 'Visualization', 'Tableau Desktop']
The Information Operations Archive (IOA) is a database of social media posts with content like “This is big! Hillary Clinton covered up child trafficking investigation at the State Department” and “Watch: Barack Obama admits he was born in Kenya #birtherism.” Co–created by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a biparti...
['Data Architecture', 'Data Visualization', 'Digital Archives', 'Dataviz', 'Database']
Hi everyone, in this story we will try to cover subplots and plot layering in Plotly. Before we start firstly I need to explain my situation. I’m trying to learn English so please don’t judge me for my English 😅 Let’s try to cover subplots and plot layering. What are The Subplots We can say, mini plots which arrange...
['Subplot', 'Data', 'Dataviz', 'Python', 'Plotly']
So what’s the difference? The difference between wide and long format lays in the number of chart-types you can create once you have saved the dataset. Turning the data into long-format by using our “Autocreate Groups” function leaves you with more options because -as the name implies- it automatically creates groups, ...
['Data Journalism', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Maps', 'Charts']
2019 was not my most stellar year of reading, as indicated but not entirely encapsulated by this graph: The above is quite a simple representation of how I think about my year’s reading, and part of the joy of the Vincennes Review of Books is sharing some of the more demented ways I think about my cultural throughput ...
['Books', 'Literature', 'Reading', 'Dataviz', 'Review']
Maps and cartography have always been something I have been fascinated by. Whether studying the road map in the back of the car while travelling down France for a family holiday or dreaming up cycling trips on Google Maps maps are never far from my mind! Studying Geography meant I was lucky enough to get training and ...
['Cartography', 'Qgis', 'GIS', 'Cycling', 'Dataviz']
In 2019 I took notes of everything I did and analyzed my complete year. In retrospect 2019 was a great year and I know exactly how to make 2020 even better. This chart represents my 2019 sorted by categories. Each datapoint is one memory which I thought was worth noting down, some memories have a sub-category which is...
['Clojure', 'Journaling', 'Dataviz', 'Review', '2019']
When it comes to monitoring any software application, telemetry is an integral component of this process. As the term seems to suggest, telemetry is the process of recording and monitoring data from any remote source or system through the use of technology. In the IT and software domain, telemetry and monitoring are d...
['Data Analytics', 'Data Visualization', 'Dashboard', 'Dataviz', 'Telemetry']
Age and politics I guess you have heard about Sanna Marin, the youngest prime minister from Finland? Sanna Marin is merely 34 years old and yet is a prime minister. The thought of this remarkable feat at such a young age, sparked my curiosity to dig deeper. As a result, I wanted to learn more about: What is the avera...
['Big Data Analytics', 'Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Politics', 'Dataviz', 'Sanna Marin']
Let’s assume you’re a developer (or a designer) and you want to visualize some data using web technologies. You basically have two options: Using a library which provides high-level basic charts. Building the charts yourself (either using a low-level component library or not). The solution you’re going to choose may...
['React', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Typescript', 'D3js']
Always Check The Data Source I have recently read the article “18 Lessons of Quarantine Urbanism” by Benjamin H. Bratton, Professor of Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego, and Professor at European Graduate School and Visiting Professor at NYU Shanghai and the Southern California Institute of Architectu...
['Infodemia', 'Covid 19', 'Dataviz', 'Infodemic']
Here in New York City, our Slalom office is empty, and the streets are mostly quiet. But every night at 7 pm, we join thousands of our neighbors cheering out of windows and from rooftops in solidarity with our healthcare and essential workers, who face a daunting challenge: New York is currently the epicenter of the CO...
['Healthcare', 'Slalom', 'Covid 19', 'Tableau', 'Dataviz']
Going From Stata to Pandas A Single Guide In Three Parts, Overview This guide is for users of Stata that want to begin learning Pandas. It has been written using examples and workflows that Stata users will know well. Also, this article references data many Stata users will recognize. In Part 1.1 of this guide, I re...
['Data Visualization', 'Programming', 'Statistics', 'Dataviz', 'Data Science']
Time Series The time-series plot is one of the most frequently used forms of data science. One dimension marches along to the rhythm of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, centuries. This ordering of the time scale gives this graph the strength and efficiency of interpretation found in no other graphi...
['Data Visualization', 'Graph', 'Dataviz', 'Visualization', 'Data Science']
The New York Times tells us that we can use this map to “track the spread of the outbreak”. Can we? I challenge you to look at those six days of maps and tell me what has changed in this outbreak. But the outbreak has changed, and we’ll see that below. Maps distort the data As noted above, the maps make it look like...
['Epidemiology', 'Dataviz', 'Publichealth', 'China', 'Coronavirus']