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In this article, I am going to illustrate some of the works around music information that I work since the past few weeks applicated to a specific game Beat Saber.
Beat Saber kezako?
Beat Saber is a Virtual Reality (VR) rhythm game released in 2018 by the Beat Games who, by the way, has been recently bought by Facebo... | ['Signal Processing', 'Music', 'Data', 'Dataviz', 'Videogames'] |
The world produces over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each data, so much data that it has become difficult to make sense of it all. This has led to increasing demand for new technologies and tools to help us collect and analyze this data. Data visualization is one of the techniques that can help us extract insights fro... | ['Africa', 'Misinformation', 'Data', 'Civictech', 'Dataviz'] |
I Never Planned on Becoming a Data Analyst…
Pioneering a new approach for empowering organizations to see the story in their data Taylor Riggs Follow Jan 15 · 5 min read
My grandmother used to tell me stories of accomplished women such as Margaret Hamilton who led a NASA mission to the Moon, encouraging me to pursue ... | ['Big Data Analytics', 'Data Visualization', 'Big Data', 'Dataviz', 'Data Science'] |
Photo by sergio souza on Unsplash
It was in August of the fateful year 2020 that I wrote a text right here in the Medium showing the findings of a model of clusters of municipalities from variables related to GDP. The time has come to visit that model again and make new experiments. Here the reports will focus on find... | ['Machine Learning', 'Astronomy', 'Dataviz', 'Inequality', 'Federalism'] |
Announcing the Speakers!
Outlier 2021 is coming up and I hope you’re getting excited. The first ever conference from the Data Visualization Society will celebrate the global data visualization community with inspiring talks, the ability to meet and connect with others, and the opportunity for all attendees to have a v... | ['Events', 'Data Visualization', 'Outlierconference', 'Dataviz', 'Community'] |
The Conjuring Universe: My 2-day Data Visualisation Project
How the project has taught me to start where I am, use what I have, do what I can to relentlessly drive it to completion Skye Tran Jan 3·10 min read
Photo by author
Show me the full data visualization
What I was doing for my personal data projects wasn’t w... | ['Movies', 'Dataviz', 'The Conjuring', 'Tableau'] |
Host an unconference session!
In addition to the speakers and talks we’ve already curated, there will also be the chance to speak, lead, or facilitate unconference-style sessions. (Note: you will need to be an attendee to host a session.)
We acknowledge that some folks who submitted to speak and were not selected may... | ['Data Visualization', 'Outlierconference', 'Conference', 'Dataviz', 'Community'] |
Submit a Lightning Talk!
In addition to the speakers and talks we’ve already curated, we will also be showcasing lightning talks. (Note: you need to be an attendee to give a lightning talk.)
We acknowledge that some folks who submitted to speak and were not selected may feel disappointed, and we totally understand th... | ['Data Visualization', 'Outlierconference', 'Conference', 'Dataviz', 'Community'] |
Data visualization is a powerful tool for communicating information to a broader audience. This means apart from using the right color scheme, font size, and font type; using a proper chart type to depict the data is also important.
The focus of this article, as clear from the title, is time series. As a general conve... | ['Data Analytics', 'Data Visualization', 'Time Series', 'Dataviz', 'Forecasting'] |
Is there a market in Europe for a data visualization agency or is it still too much a niche sector? Who is interested in data visualization services? How do you succeed in this sector? Paolo Guadagni, founder of The Visual Agency, one of the first companies dedicated to data visualization in Italy, answers these and ot... | ['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Infographics', 'Business', 'Information Design'] |
Swing Area Compactness and Positive Aggressiveness, an attempt to quantify plate discipline and consistency of players’ decision making in baseball Julien Demeaux Jun 3, 2020·12 min read
1. Abstract
When it comes to hitting a baseball, most coaches emphasize what they call Quality At Bats (aka QAB) against Batting Av... | ['Statcast', 'MLB', 'Dataviz', 'Baseball', 'Analytics'] |
The one with the most words
I can watch a Friends episode for the 8th time in my life, laugh out loud and have fun. But I will admit that I had more fun playing with the Friends script data in R and figuring out stuff visualizing a simple dataset! So, the question is “is sitting at home on a Saturday night, drinking w... | ['Rstats', 'Dataviz', 'Friends', 'Tidyverse'] |
Data Visualization: the good, the bad and the ugly (0)
During my internships and various projects, I’ve gradually learnt that working with data, and especially doing data visualisation, can be tricky: knowing how to properly show your data so that the others understand it and get your point is necessary but it’s compl... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data', 'Dataviz', 'Tips And Tricks', 'Puzzle'] |
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Make Your Dashboard Stand Out — Likert Chart (Part 2)
To me, Tableau is the only kind of tool that allows me to do data science like an artist. However, there will be no fun if everyone does the same visualization with Tableau. This article is one episode of my series “Make Your Dashboard Stand O... | ['Data Visualization', 'Tableau', 'Dataviz', 'Artofdata', 'Likert Scale'] |
Project Showcase: Integrated Report for Museo Egizio
A world–famous museum overhauls its annual reporting and portrays the progress and setbacks of a historic year. Accurat Jul 29·3 min read
Normally, March and August are the busiest months of the year for Turin’s Egypt Museum. That wasn’t the case in 2020.
Like man... | ['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Fundraising', 'Museums', 'Print'] |
Create Choropleth Maps by Using Plotly Baysan Follow Jul 26 · 6 min read
Hello everyone. In this story we will try to cover, how can we create choropleth maps by using Plotly.
If we want to create choropleth we need to have GeoJSON file which related our target area. And I prepared before the jupyter notebook which w... | ['Choropleth', 'Dataviz', 'Python', 'Dash', 'Plotly'] |
We also continued our Stamen dataviz and mapping workshops, some onsite for clients, and some for the general public in our San Francisco studio. These classes were increasingly a collaboration with the talented Curran Kelleher who has extensive experience developing online teaching materials for D3.js and for data vis... | ['Cartography', 'Mapping', 'Stamen', 'Dataviz', 'Design'] |
To communicate the immensely interesting findings to their readership and beyond, Scientific American asked us to help them visualize the clock–like rhythms of hormonal growth.
A recreation of our process, from plotting to coloring and refinement.
A team led by Accurat Co-Director of Technology Mariano Viola pored ov... | ['Data Visualization', 'Science Journalism', 'Dataviz', 'Scientific American', 'Scientific Research'] |
In their 2007 book “The illusion of certainty: Health Benefits and Risks”, authors Erik Rifkin and Edward Bouwer addressed a number of aspects related to the communication of risk to individuals and broad audiences, arguing that adequate communication of risk, including on the uncertainty embedded in risk assessments, ... | ['Data Journalism', 'Dataviz', 'Risk', 'Health', 'Tutorial'] |
From left to right: Ivan Rossi, Ilaria Venturini, Stefano Gallo. Photos: Giovanni Marchi, Pietro Guinea–Montalvo.
Ex–Interns of Accurat
Many Accurat interns graduate to full–time status. In a new series, we interview colleagues who began working at Accurat as students. First up are developers Stefano Gallo (who joine... | ['Internships', 'Front End Development', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Data Science'] |
How TargetEarly Visualized the Most Important Early Vote Election of Our Time TargetSmart Follow Apr 5 · 4 min read
By: Joe Garland and Rina Schiller
The 2020 election cycle posed unprecedented challenges for voters, campaign staffers, government officials, journalists, and political scientists. In response to a pand... | ['Targetsmart', '2020election', 'Dataviz', 'Targetearly'] |
While the data can visually confirm kilometre-long stretches of rainforest vanishing within the delicate past months, it remains hard to prove a direct link to the military rulers from satellite images alone.
Eoghan Darbyshire, a researcher at CEOBS, the British NGO based in West Yorkshire, says that now the driver is... | ['Journalism', 'Dataviz', 'Myanmar', 'Osint'] |
With such an engaged Slack community, it’s difficult for new members to get a sense of our channel landscape and amazing discussions. I kept thinking that it should be easier to see, discover, and join Slack channels, ideally all in one place.
HOW IT STARTED
To help with this, my partner Owen Fernley and I decided to... | ['How To', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Navigation', 'Information Design'] |
Demographic and Social Media Differences in Urban and Rural districts
Beyond the map, to look for demographic patterns in the way elected officials use social media, we created a data pipeline to gather statistics from the US Census for each district. Here is a summary of the variables that we collected segmented by o... | ['Dataviz', 'Geospatial', 'Social Media'] |
My colleague sent me a link to a local datavis contest. Participants were supposed to figure out how to split russia into square tiles to make boxed visualizations. Like this one made for America:
All tiles are the same size. It’s easy to compare them, but it is more difficult to make a such map for Russia, because al... | ['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Data Processing', 'Data Analysis', 'Maps'] |
Since March 1, 58 cities that Cicero monitors in the U.S. have had elections. On the Cicero team, we track local elections in nearly 400+ cities worldwide — and cities do not often have election cycles in sync with other state or national elections. In total, over 500 elected officials were up for election in major cit... | ['Government', 'Dataviz', 'Elections'] |
Part of my data physicalization installation
My firm belief is: Knowledge is useless without creative processing.
In order to prepare knowledge for communication/knowledge transfer you need to be creative. If you are a knowledge worker it is especially helpful to be creative with your hands. It is relaxing and builds... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data Physicalization', 'Dataviz', 'Datenvisualisierung', 'Visualization'] |
Introduction
After a week-long trip to Milano some months ago, I found myself in the waiting area of an airport. It was a peaceful day, the sun was bursting inside the place through few huge windows. As usual, the bookstore was calling me affectionately, so I couldn’t resist the urge to go in and take a look. My atten... | ['Data Visualisation', 'Sentiment Analysis', 'Books', 'Computer Science', 'Dataviz'] |
Some historical examples of data visualization still amaze us today and can teach us a lot.
Let’s look at an old “dashboard” of over 200 years ago by William Playfair, an English statistician. He is credited to be the father of data visualization having used bar charts, line charts and pie charts for the first time to... | ['Data Visualization', 'Information Design', 'Dataviz', 'Infographics', 'Charts'] |
Source: Google images
It’s been less than a year since I became a Business Intelligence analyst, a sharp transition from being a business journalist. The journey so far has been a hike up the steep learning curve. It is tedious but rewarding and satisfactory at the same time.
This journey started off with a Udacity n... | ['Analyst', 'Data Visualization', 'Tableau', 'Dataviz', 'Udacity'] |
Overview
With the pervasiveness of cloud services, hybrid solutions and an explosion of data from ever increasing sources, it is easy for most systems managers to feel overwhelmed with the rising rush of data.
One of the proven ways of making sense and digesting complex data flows is through timely and pertinent visu... | ['Dashboard', 'Real Time Analytics', 'Dataviz', 'Timeseries'] |
We all have our own Tableau Conference habits. Mine is to participate in the first-day hackathon, build something super cool that nobody understands and in the end win nothing. Tableau 2019 was no exception. Earlier this year, our team won the NYC Tableau Hackathon — and I had almost nothing to do with it. My tasks wer... | ['Functional Programming', 'Dataviz', 'Tableau', 'Haskell'] |
Using and reading the map
The interactive map (Fig.1.) was built with kepler.gl python library in Jupyter NB. It is an open source geospatial visualisation platform launched by Uber’s visualisation team and enables users to perform various types of analysis such as heatmaps, choropleth, flows or grids, among others. A... | ['Dataviz', 'Kepler', 'Maps', 'Visualization', 'Geospatial'] |
I’ve been following the debate about tactical voting in the 2019 UK General Election, and particularly the controversy about Best for Britain’s site getvoting.org, which is accused of giving “bogus” advice based on a fairly opaque methodology (see this Guardian article).
So… I decided to get the constituency-by-consti... | ['Labour Party', 'Liberal Democrats', 'Politics', 'Dataviz', 'General Election 2019'] |
Last week I shared a comparison of the tactical voting advice of three different sites for the 2019 UK General Election. Since then tacticalvote.co.uk has updated its advice, and Gina Miller has just launched remainunited.org. So here’s an update…
Like getvoting.org, the advice of remainunited.org is based on a “Stop ... | ['Labour Party', 'Liberal Democrats', 'Politics', 'Dataviz', 'General Election 2019'] |
Credit (top-left to bot-right): The New York Times, Moritz Stefaner and Alberto Cairo, The Economist, Shirley Wu, Poynter, FiveThirtyEight
Information Design Round-Up: Election Edition
This post is the first in a series dedicated to my favorite information design and data visualization focused on a particular topic, ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Civic Engagement', 'Dataviz', 'Information Design', 'Election 2020'] |
I’ve recently open-sourced a new 📈 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard which shows the dynamics (the curvature of the graph) of Сoronavirus distribution per country.
Reasoning
The reason for creating a new dashboard was to complement the well-known JHU Dashboard (which is made by Johns Hopkins CSSE) with the feature of... | ['Data Visualization', 'Web Development', 'JavaScript', 'Data', 'Dataviz'] |
QuickSight Tips & Co
Reference lines in QuickSight
The other day I was working on a dashboard in AWS QuickSight, creating a bar chart. As I opened the setting tab of my visual, I saw a new section: “reference line”.
I got really excited because I use to love reference lines on Tableau, so I gave it a go. You will fi... | ['Quicksight', 'Dataviz', 'Dashboard'] |
You need to crawl before you can run when it comes to data. So many leaders want to bite right into trendy Machine Learning & AI techniques before they even have simple aggregations. Fortunately, tracking your company’s progress doesn’t need to be complicated — it’s really about asking the right questions (e.g. Are use... | ['Data', 'Redshift', 'Dataviz', 'Visualization', 'Sql'] |
Good things come in threes. Flavours in a tub of Neapolitan ice cream. Underpants in multipacks. Bears. There’s something about the magic number three that’s endlessly satisfying to the human brain. That’s why good stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Three equal-ish parts, which give a story balance. Which ... | ['Guides And Tutorials', 'How To', 'Data Visualization', 'Storytelling', 'Dataviz'] |
If you wish to draw an arc in a Web page, then you should probably use Canvas or SVG.
To be more specific, an arc is a part of an ellipse. So we can imagine that, in order to define an arc, at least we need the following parameters:
The center of the ellipse, noted as x and y, long and short axis radius, noted as rx ... | ['JavaScript', 'SVG', 'Fron End', 'Data Viz', 'Canvas'] |
Enrollment is now open for Stamen’s next Data Visualization Foundations class, scheduled for November of this year at Stamen Design. This hands-on class, which we developed with dataviz expert Curran Kelleher (author of the online platform for teaching & learning data visualization vizhub.com) will teach you the fundam... | ['Design', 'Data Visualization', 'Workshop', 'Dataviz', 'Maps'] |
Data visualization and infographics give you answers (and raises questions), you did not know you had. It is very much like storytelling. As a story-teller, you want to capture the imagination of the audience and dazzle them at the right moment.
Over the past week at the Annual Tunneling Short-Course at Underground Co... | ['Underground', 'Tunneling', 'Dataviz', 'Engineering', 'Phd Application'] |
Visuals, graphs and more visuals!
Continuing from my previous post on the calculations to do when conducting Exploratory Data Analysis, in this blog post, I am going to discuss how to use visual to explore our data better.
To reiterate here, the two main benefits of doing a good EDA is:
Have a good understanding of ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Data Science'] |
In 2018, The Appreciation Society organised the project ‘A Drop in the Ocean’ to get citizens involved in collecting plastic bottle tops from Brighton & Hove’s* beaches.
How ‘A Drop in the Ocean’ compares
We focused on bottle tops because most of them aren’t currently recycled.
Every plastic bottle top found on our ... | ['Public Art', 'Brighton', 'Plastic Pollution', 'Dataviz', 'Design'] |
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
This is an entry for Reddit’s DataViz Battle for the month of June 2019. See all plots and code here. Shout out to r/dataisbeautiful mods for preparing these battles every month!
Data
The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. More than 15... | ['Data Visualization', 'World Happiness Report', 'Happiness', 'Dataviz', 'Data Science'] |
it’s a figure with an ax. you’ll get this joke eventually.
In a previous blog post, I wrote about how I’ve always enjoyed tearing something apart (and sometimes reassembling it) to understand it better. If it worked for Da Vinci, it should work for me, right? The purpose of this blog post is two fold. I intend to tear... | ['Data Visualization', 'Pyplot', 'Dataviz', 'Matplotlib'] |
Design system
It’s important to understand my design decisions so let my introduce a bit of my design system.
Golden Ratio
The Golden Ratio is a value that you can observe everywhere in the natural world, you can observe it in bodies, face shapes, flowers etc…
The ratio has been a deep inspiration for plenty of cre... | ['Dataviz', 'Fintech', 'UX', 'Design Systems', 'Interaction Design'] |
Sometimes it is better to avoid the zero line in your Slopegraph
A few days ago PEW Research Center published an article on fertility in the U.S. before the pandemic. One of its takeaways was the decrease in the education gap in fertility over the past two decades. This was supported by the slopegraph showing the shar... | ['Data Visualisation', 'Graph', 'Data', 'Dataviz', 'Charts'] |
Image by Isaac Smith on Unsplash
No, this post is not about technical analysis of a stock. I am writing this to bring out the beauty of data visualization or dataviz as it’s fondly referred to in the data community.
Let’s look at an example.
As you know, stocks are traded on the exchange whenever buyers and sellers ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Candlesticks', 'Dataviz', 'Technical Analysis'] |
Family of Nutsa Abash in Abkhazia, during The Soviet Union. Photo was taken from the following post about the history of black people in Abkhazia: https://abkhazworld.com/aw/blogs/1754-afro-abkhazians
What #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter say on Twitter
That people who use two different hashtags — BlackLivesMatt... | ['Sentiment Analysis', 'R', 'Twitter', 'Dataviz'] |
It’s honestly hard to believe that it has been only a year since I announced the founding of Nightingale. As the editor-in-chief, it’s been an exhilarating journey of friendships, meetings, late-night editing, and the daily joy of sharing articles (and voices) that we all care deeply about. Here, on our first birthday,... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data', 'Dataviz', 'Data Humanism', 'Dvsintro'] |
A “Taste” of What’s to Come
With the end of 2020 approaching, many of us are starting to turn our thoughts to our various holiday traditions. Unfortunately, those traditions will likely look different this year because of COVID. Fortunately, data visualization is here to answer all your pressing holiday-related questi... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data Physicalization', 'Civic Engagement', 'Dataviz', 'Information Design'] |
Data visualisation: the good, the bad and the ugly
Cookies! This time, Puzzle #3 is about Girl Scouts selling cookies and comparing scores. We’ll see how showing too much data can be dangerous and how our brains can be tricked by graphic elements even if, in truth, they don’t make much sense.
To learn more about the ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data', 'Dataviz', 'Tips And Tricks', 'Puzzle'] |
The earth does not vote; people, yes.
For the territorial analysis, the location of the populated communities was used and the percentage of votes at the district level was assigned to them. In addition, its variation with respect to its location by altitudinal tiers was analyzed.
Considering the difference in the nu... | ['Dataviz', 'Elections', 'Peru'] |
Jane Zhang is an independent data visualization designer based in Toronto. She’s made a name for herself with her recognisable static visualizations that change the way you see and understand everyday subject matter, from board games to food menus, personal health and heritage. Together with her design strategy backgro... | ['Design Thinking', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Community', 'Careers'] |
5 Ways to get creative with bar charts
Bar charts are one of the most used chart forms I use when presenting data insights at work. But I often feel like it gets a bit monotonous and repetitive especially when you need to present a lot of KPIs on the dashboard.
Here are five different variations you can use to show d... | ['Data Analytics', 'Data Visualization', 'Tableau', 'Dataviz', 'Visualization'] |
Poor color choices that discriminate the part of your audience
Have you ever wondered if the visualization that you’ve created was understandable? If the chart you’ve chosen delivered the right message? Or if the data told the story you want? As you are reading this article, I assume that you did.
However, have you e... | ['Inclusive Design', 'Data Visualization', 'Data', 'Color Blindness', 'Dataviz'] |
From visualising BEIS to visualising baize; try not to baulk at the foul puns; now I’ve done that I’ll give it a rest and take a break. Cue the actual content…
Following my attempt to visualise the Six Nations, I thought I’d give the snooker world championships a go. There are lots of numbers, lots of ways of telling ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Snooker'] |
Overview
With the increasing adoption of data visualization tools such as Qlik, Power BI, Tableau, etc., one might think that a useful dashboard is the one with the most sophisticated/modern visual elements that this kind of software brings.
Maps, Violin Charts, TreeMaps, Chord Charts, Sankey, Marimekko, among other ... | ['Reporting', 'Dataviz', 'Business Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Analytics'] |
Migration instructions from versions <0.16.10:
1. Vanilla bundle name change
If you are using the Vanilla package ( @carbon/charts ) through a CDN, you’d need to start using bundle.js instead of index.umd.js
bundle.js still includes a UMD bundle, and will automatically be located by your bundler as the main file to ... | ['Carbon Design System', 'Data Visualization', 'JavaScript', 'Dataviz', 'Charts'] |
Can you visualize stand-up comedy?
Over the years, visualizing performance art has been attempted in one form or the other. Whether it’s showing the character arcs in a play, or visualizing how characters speak in Shakespeare, performance art has some form of inherent structure, and that structure can be visualized.
... | ['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Comedy', 'Data Science', 'D3js'] |
Introduction
It seems that with each passing year, suicides are becoming more common. Myself, who is only 25 years old, I had an acquaintance who during college committed suicide. During the week, I was hanging out by Kaggle, and found a set of data on suicides. At the time I thought about doing a little analysis and ... | ['Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Dataviz', 'Suicide', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science'] |
By Twain Taylor
While Blockchain is most commonly known as the platform behind cryptocurrency, increasingly, enterprises are seeing opportunities to leverage Blockchain to solve the complex challenges they face.
And as that happens, enterprises need better ways of interpreting and managing blockchain data. That is wh... | ['IoT', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Blockchain', 'Analytics'] |
With a goal to dive deeper into the growing need for smarter dataviz solutions within Illustrator, we recently posted an online questionnaire.
And the people (n=244) have spoken! Scroll on down to check out the results.
We’ve also spent some time looking into what we learned from reviewing all the responder comments ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Illustrator', 'Design'] |
Eyeo Festival 2012 (Photo by Chloe Fan)
In the late 90’s I was worked at a small fry recording studio in Detroit. I had access to it anytime it wasn’t open for business. I recorded a lot of goofy tunes back then thinking one of them might eventually take over the world. Around 1997 some musician in the studio told me ... | ['Creative Technology', 'Art', 'Festivals', 'Creative Coding', 'Dataviz'] |
There’s been a pandemic for a year. So why does 2016 still hit different for celebrity deaths? Chris Beer Feb 12·8 min read
One of my biggest frustrations with lockdown has been my inability to share my mundane brainteasers with people. How many holes does a straw have? Are Thin Lizzy’s two best-known songs (“Jailbrea... | ['Covid 19', 'Death', 'Dataviz', 'Celebrity', '2016'] |
I started the Data Science path on Codecademy a few months ago and I am enjoying this new learning experience.
Now I am facing a new exciting step: posting my work on Medium is the conclusive act for this project.
Photo by Nattanan Kanchanaprat from Pixabay
This walkthrough is the outcome of the data vizualization p... | ['Hypothesis Testing', 'Codecademy', 'Data Analysis', 'Python', 'Data Viz'] |
Visualize Nested Data with Sunburst plots in R
Image by Author
Overview
This is a quick walk through of using the sunburstR package to create sunburst plots in R. The original document is written in RMarkdown , which is an interactive version of markdown.
The following code can be run in RMarkdown or an R script. F... | ['Data Visualization', 'Tidyverse', 'Dataviz', 'Data Science', 'R Programming'] |
Hi everyone!
As the Events Director of DVS, I am tasked with organizing Data Visualization Society conferences and events. I’m happy to announce that we will be hosting our first conference! Outlier will be hosted virtually on February 4th and 5th. The events committee and I have been doing a lot of thinking around wh... | ['Outlierconference', 'Conference', 'Dataviz', 'Community', 'Dvsintro'] |
Is Zero Closer to Eight or to One?
Authors: Rosaria Silipo and Mischa Lisovyi, KNIME
Is zero closer to eight or to one? Is this a three or a five? This was the type of question we were pondering a few weeks ago when we examined the results of an image classification application.
Yes, indeed, a zero is closer to an e... | ['Knime', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Dataviz', 'Dimensionality Reduction', 'Data Science'] |
Outlier Online is an upcoming conference hosted by the Data Visualization Society, to be held on February 4th & 5th, 2021. We invite you to fill out this speaker application form if you’d like to give a talk or hold a workshop at the conference. Speaking at Outlier is a great way to build out your network, show off you... | ['Data Visualization', 'Outlierconference', 'Conference', 'Visual Design', 'Dataviz'] |
Let’s take a look at what events are coming up! This is meant to be a living document, to be updated as new things arise. Is anything missing? No fret; toss it into this very short survey! (Last updated: 2/17/2020)
S-H-O-W
When: April 8-9, 2021
Where: Online & Utrecht, the Netherlands
Links: Website, Twitter, Linke... | ['Data Visualisation', 'Data Visualization', 'Outlierconference', 'Conference', 'Dataviz'] |
As someone who is new to using Tableau, I sometimes underestimate the capability of the software. It is powerful! Tableau is a software that enables you to visualize the data in your Excel spreadsheets. One of the things you can do with Tableau is to turn your resume into an interactive visualization. What better way t... | ['Tableau', 'Interactive Content', 'Job Search', 'Dataviz', 'Resume'] |
Book: Story Telling With Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, image: Sudonull.com
Disclaimer: The ideas presented in this article are from the book: Story Telling With Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. To preserve the original message of the author, the visualizations presented in the book are also directly from the book.
... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data', 'Dataviz', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science'] |
“Catchy things always attract people”
When we are talking about data viz, we have to keep in mind that data viz is an important aspect of any data scientist, Business analyst, and Data analyst. So when it comes to visualizing the data for any kind of Business or for academia we first look for excel or Power BI because... | ['Dataviz', 'Tableau'] |
In the time of social distancing, people have been reconnecting with outdoor spaces and activities. The United States National Park System contains approximately 131,000 square miles of public and private land managed by the government. That land is made up of parks, monuments, and other types of federally-designated p... | ['Politics', 'Dataviz'] |
DATA SCIENCE, THE NEW SOCIAL STUDIES
Before the advent of technology, humans spent more time relating to one another. We learned to depend more on one another with less dependency on machines.
You trust the Post Man or the Post Office to help you deliver your letters or mail, you trust the words of your teachers more... | ['Data Visualization', 'Data', 'Dataviz', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science'] |
Within the design phase of a wireframe, there are two moments: the preliminary sketch by hand and the second, the digital sketch. For the second moment, there are many free resources available on the web. Still, not all of them are practical or recreate the desired results.
I will share the result of finding and using... | ['Data Visualization Tools', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Data Science', 'Wireframe'] |
Outlier tickets are officially on sale! You can buy one right now — head on over to the ticketing page to make sure you don’t miss out on the very first conference from the Data Visualization Society.
Rather than asking everyone to give the same price, we are providing multiple pricing options. This is for one simple ... | ['Data Visualisation', 'Data Visualization', 'Outlierconference', 'Dataviz', 'Community'] |
Loading library, scrapping and Prepare Data.
Because I only do scrapp on single page, so I don’t need to make a function. In the data preparation step, I added a new column, namely placement points based on team placement for each round and total points (kill + placement point).
The data have been prepared can be see... | ['Pubg Mobile', 'Dataviz', 'Data Analysis', 'R Programming', 'Pmpl'] |
We spend hours and hours writing the code, cleaning the data and applying the best visual principles to communicate our stories with data but sometimes the best stories come with minimal code and yet making a deep emotional impact. Last week, I came across this visual “When Children Lack Nutrition” from Alberto Lucas L... | ['Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Visualization', 'Empathy'] |
When getting started with a new tool, it can be hard to know where to start. Here is a collection of free resources to get started on your Power BI journey:
1. Dax and Power Query/M
2. Data Modeling
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When I first started with P... | ['Data Visualization Tools', 'Dataviz', 'Data Analysis', 'Learn', 'Power Bi'] |
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Taking a page from the Outlier Conference, we... | ['How To', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Information Design', 'Editorial Guidelines'] |
Creating your own color palette for data visualization-Part 1
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Do you face difficulty choosing the right color combinations for your data visualizations? Are you still stuck using the color palettes most of the programmers are using? If you want to stand out then this post is for you... | ['R', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Color Palette', 'Python'] |
Data visualization using ggplot2: 5 features worth knowing
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Whether you are working on your school project, term paper, master’s thesis, or a business presentation, the quality of the data translates well to the audience if the data is presented in a meaningful and aesthetically pleas... | ['R', 'Data Visualization', 'Dataviz', 'Tips And Tricks', 'Ggplot2'] |
Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu are wondrous eccentrics. Their splendid book is the product of a collaborative experimental project, DataSketch.es, that might be one of the first exponents of an emerging visualization orthodoxy in which uniqueness is paramount and templates and conventions are seen with skepticism.
Nearl... | ['Art', 'Data Visualization', 'Books', 'Dataviz', 'Community'] |
How we collect data
First of all, we had to collect honest reviews from our workers and get the information we needed to work with. We decided to speak with every employee, intentionally avoiding anonymous surveys. We planned to have a free form conversation, in this way we wanted to avoid influencing people with any ... | ['Team', 'Efficiency', 'Leadership', 'Growing Teams', 'Blue Ocean'] |
Grab your coffee and let’s get to creating awesome content efficiently!
Your working hours have been cut but you still want to deliver meaningful content? I know how that feels. That is why I want to share my experience and help you to boost your content production despite time restrictions!
8 am. Your alarm rings.
... | ['Tips', 'Efficiency', 'Content Marketing', 'Content Creation', 'Remote Work'] |
Growth for solar panel power has been on the steady rise and is projected to increase through 2025. The journal I chose was called “Renewables 2020 — Analysis and Forecast to 2025” written by various authors. When looking at previous years in the article I found that there was a drop off in electricity consumption from... | ['Energy', 'Energy Efficiency', 'Efficiency', 'Solar Power', 'Solar Energy'] |
Windows Terminal is a Microsoft open source project announced in May 2019. A first stable version was released in May 2020; I am guilty of overlooking it in these months as a Windows-based user, it really is a helpful tool with a high customizable interface.
Working for Accenture Google Business Group it is very commo... | ['Efficiency', 'Google Cloud Shell', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Windows Terminal'] |
There’s a much better way to reclaim VAT. I’ll explain it in some detail below. But first, I want to take you for a quick tour of my kitchen.
I started 2020 pretty satisfied with my work-from-home routine. It felt businesslike and disciplined. I would sit at my kitchen table and get down to work. It wasn’t perfect. Bu... | ['Admin', 'Time', 'Efficiency', 'Vat', 'Finance'] |
This is intended as the first of a series of articles on the benefits of the Cloud as a self-healing prospect. The series starts at a high conceptual level and gradually focuses in on specifics.
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Around about 2016, people started talking about self-healing roads. Attributed to Erik Sch... | ['Cloud Computing', 'AWS', 'Efficiency', 'Systems Thinking', 'Cloud Business Capability'] |
Blu-ray discs are used to store high definition videos, graphics, and special features, and these blu-ray discs become more and more popular. Thus to play Blu-ray videos and movies more conveniently, you need to rip them. Here in this post, I’d like to share you the top and best 6 Blu-ray ripper software in the market.... | ['Technology', 'Dvd', 'Blu Ray', 'Efficiency', 'Blu Ray Reviews'] |
The Fab Five: Questions to Ask Yourself when Validating Deductions
Advertising, Slotting, Manufacturer Chargebacks (MCBs), Scans, Merchandising, Club Promotions, Coupon Redemptions… OH MY! These are just a few types of promotions most consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies roll up under their second largest expense; ... | ['Accounting', 'Efficiency', 'Cpg Industry', 'Smb', 'SaaS'] |
We’re excited to announce the launch of Lark, an all-in-one collaboration suite that revolutionizes the way team members get work done. With a mission to empower team productivity, Lark effectively integrates chat, calendar, and online collaborative documents — keeping these essential tools accessible and in sync, in a... | ['Productivity', 'Collaboration Tools', 'Efficiency', 'Lark', 'Enterprise'] |
I want to focus on only one thought in this post stemming from this quote from Lao Tzu. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
One of the most difficult things to do in our current world is to slow down. Everything around us is made to seem urgent, that is the way our society has trended for generati... | ['Motivation', 'Philosophy', 'Multitasking', 'Efficiency', 'Self Improvement'] |
Recap: Epipolar geometry
For a monocular camera, since there is only one optical center, the positions of two points through the same ray on the image are the same, so the depth volume between the two points cannot be judged. Therefore, the basis of stereo vision is the picture of the binocular cameras.
We can see fr... | ['Deep Learning', 'Stereo Vision', 'Efficiency', 'Ga Net', 'Computer Vision'] |
In my experience, a good baseline usually already performs at about 90% of the best possible model (depending on the use case of course). In my opinion, getting to the 90% fast with an easy solution that is interpretable to me is more impressive than spending days or weeks fine-tuning a neural network that is hard to e... | ['Machine Learning', 'Efficiency', 'Happiness', 'Self Improvement', 'Data Science'] |
With Machine learning all over the place, it is becoming increasingly important to capture best practices and solutions to tackle common ML problems. Design patterns are a way of capturing these problems and providing reusable answers using generic and well-proven ML designs. They are ways of thinking when designing so... | ['Machine Learning', 'Efficiency', 'Design Patterns', 'Standardization', 'Methodology'] |
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