FlowingData

APRIL 30, 2024

Reddit user ChangsManagement mapped where NHL hockey players were born , based on data from Hockey Reference. Tags: birth , NHL As someone who knows next to nothing about hockey, except the bits I picked up while living in Buffalo, I’m surprised that the distribution is so far north, but it makes sense.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Alasdair Rae outlines the basics of visualizing basketball shot data with QGIS , an open-source software package typically used for geographic maps. Even if you’re not into basketball, sports data can be fun to poke at because it’s comprehensive and usually covers a good range of time and categories.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Based on data from the USDA Census of Agriculture , this map by John Johnson shows the predominant domesticated animal in each county in the United States. Tags: animals , domestic , John Johnson It nonchalantly includes humans.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon Bow to the might of NLP. The post NLP – Tags, Frequencies, Unique Terms, n-grams appeared first on Analytics Vidhya. NLP is used in a wide […].

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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. It has many features, including tokenization, lemmatization, and part-of-speech (PoS) tagging. Overview According to the internet, OpenNLP is a machine learning-based toolbox for processing natural language text.

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FlowingData

MAY 15, 2024

Based on data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ), Villanova University researchers developed a map of the magnetic fields in the Milky Way. Tags: magnetic fields , Milky Way , NASA , Strange Maps

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For WP’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam notes the decline of the school bus and the rise of the private vehicle to bring kids to school. So this data strikes the a chord. Tags: kids , school bus , Washington Post I rode the bus when I was a kid, until I switched to riding my bicycle.

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APRIL 11, 2024

For the New York Times, Charlie Smart mapped the movements based on activity data from Mapbox and traffic data from TomTom. Tags: eclipse , New York Times , people As you might expect, the path of totality brought increased activities as people tried to get in the right spots.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

If you’re into basketball data, Sravan Pannala is keeping a running list of data sources, apps, and visualization on the topic. I can always use more basketball data, so I’ll bookmark this for later. Tags: basketball , Sravan Pannala

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FlowingData

MAY 8, 2024

While the current tools are fun to play with, there are and will be real safety challenges as the systems slurp up more data and process faster. Tags: AI , ethics , Hack Club , Nicky Case It grows more likely that the systems will directly affect your day-to-day life.

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Peter Atwood used NASA data to depict the wildfires in Canada this year. Tags: Canada , Peter Atwood , wildfire The realistic rendering of the fires as burning embers and smoke activity is something.

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FlowingData

MARCH 20, 2024

The AI systems look for patterns in the data on which they’re trained, often discarding outliers in favor of producing a result that stays closer to dominant trends. Between this convergence to stereotypes and the forced diversity from Google’s Gemini, has anyone tried coupling models with demographic data to find a place in between?

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FlowingData

APRIL 17, 2024

Over nearly a year, the Chronicle collected and analyzed this data, seeking to understand just how Executive Order 9066 reshaped Japantown. Tags: census , Japantown , racism , San Francisco Chronicle

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Based on data from Berkeley Earth , John Muyskens and Niko Kommenda, for The Washington Post, focused on the geographic areas that experienced the biggest jumps. Tags: climate change , global warming , Washington Post Earth got its hottest year on record in 2023.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It focuses on the how of visualization with practical examples that you can apply to your own data. You’ll learn how to use a variety of tools and work through the full visualization process, from data to visual analysis to publication-ready graphics. I hope it’ll help all of you have more fun with data.

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FlowingData

MARCH 21, 2024

Jer Thorp has combined birding and data visualization into a unique course called Binoculars to Binomials : I dreamt up Binoculars to Binomials as a hybrid site of learning. More broadly, it’s for anyone who’s interested in the overlap between nature, data and creativity. Tags: birds , Jer Thorp , learning

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FlowingData

JANUARY 24, 2024

Meant to be comprehensive more than a curated collection, the Journalist’s Toolbox AI provides many links to tools that might help you data more efficiently. There’s still a long way to go before AI is reliable enough to analyze and make sense of data. Tags: AI , journalism , tools

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FlowingData

MARCH 21, 2024

Someone should collate the data and have some fun with it. Tags: happiness , rank Overall, the United States ranked in the range from 17 to 29 among all countries, but was worse for young people. Finland was definitively at the top. The visualizations are clinical, which is kind of sad given the topic of the report.

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Data Science Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sie sollten bereits Grundkenntnisse in R/RStudio sowie Regressionsanalysen mitbringen, um das Beste aus diesem Seminar herauszuholen.

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Getting started with data visualization can be tricky because of all the resources and tools available these days. Approaches also change with what you want to visualize data for. Tags: Datawrapper , getting started , learning , Lisa Charlotte Muth For Datawrapper, Lisa Chartlotte Muth outlines how to take your first steps.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Proper support for sum types or tagged unions have become table stakes for systems programming languages. This post goes into Zig's powerful comptime feature, and how it allows some radical approaches to efficient data structure design.

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FlowingData

APRIL 12, 2024

It was for someone who was familiar with visualization but was stuck on the part where it’s time to make and design charts with your own data. There’s a technical side to visualizing data that couples with the thinking side. People consume data through different screen sizes. I hope it helps you have fun with data.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Google Fonts now provides two open source fonts by Dmitry Ivanov that let you make simplified, small to medium line and bar charts based on data: Linefont and Wavefont. Tags: Dmitry Ivanov , font , Google These might come in handy when you want to embed small charts in body text.

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FlowingData

APRIL 25, 2024

By the end of 2020, Bureau of Justice Statistics data shows the number of people in state prisons under 55 fell by 17%, while the 55 and older population was down by 6%. Tags: Marshall Project , mortality , pandemic That’s because incarcerated people are generally older than those likely to be sent to prison. Check out the full paper.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It reads like a data-driven journal entry, which I am always up for. Rebecca Lai ran her first marathon. She recounts her training and the day of the event with a series of maps and charts. Rebecca Lai , marathon

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Last week Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), in partnership with The Citizen Lab, discovered an in-the-wild 0-day exploit chain for iPhones. If the target is going to a website using ‘http’, then the attacker can intercept the traffic and send fake data back to the target to force them to a different website. and iOS 17.0.1

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Insects are dying at a high rate every year , but it is difficult to estimate an accurate number, because it is a challenge to gather data for millions of species around the world. Those losses are continuing, though estimates vary due to patchy data as well as uncertainty over how many insects exist.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

What matters most is the training data. You need a lot of data to make these things work, and the quantity and quality of the training data appears to be the most important factor in how good the resulting model is. Tags: AI , Large Language Model , Simon Willison

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FlowingData

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Saloni Dattani, for Our World in Data, used a set of heatmaps to show how causes of death changed by time (on the horizontal axis) and age (on the vertical axis) in France. Tags: age , mortality , Our World in Data Each panel represents a cause category.

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Snorkel AI

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Wayfair relies on machine learning (ML) and product tagging to ensure customer searches result in relevant products. Tagging information like color, style, and pattern can make all the difference in a customer finding the right product at the right time. blue outdoor pillows”), they rely on product tags (e.g.

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FlowingData

JANUARY 26, 2024

Using data from the crowdsourced database eBird , Harry Stevens mapped the shifts in bird populations for the Washington Post. Diligent birders log data on eBird, which they can use to keep track of their own observations. Collectively, researchers can then generate reliable models with the data.

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For Retool, Glenn Fleishman looks back to a time when data on the internet flowed more freely and you were able to direct the streams with a click-and-drag tool called Pipes for Yahoo! With Pipes, any user could create entries for any number of data sources. Tags: Glenn Fleishman , history , Yahoo

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Introduction to Data Science , by Harvard biostatistics professor Rafael A. Irizarry, is an open source book that provides, as you might have guessed, an introduction to data science: The demand for skilled data science practitioners in industry, academia, and government is rapidly growing.

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Snorkel AI

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Wayfair relies on machine learning (ML) and product tagging to ensure customer searches result in relevant products. Tagging information like color, style, and pattern can make all the difference in a customer finding the right product at the right time. blue outdoor pillows”), they rely on product tags (e.g.

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FlowingData

MAY 31, 2023

This is a good example of things are not quite what they seem until you look at more data. Andrew Van Dam, for Washington Post’s Department of Data, looks into why it appears red states hire more than blue states. Tags: hiring , Washington Post , work

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In the narrowest view of data visualization, you use charts to pull quick, quantitative information from dashboards and reports. Take a few steps back and you get exploratory data analysis and then storytelling. I enjoyed reading and thinking about the less mechanical side of visualizing data.

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FlowingData

JANUARY 3, 2024

I need to know when it’s time to hang the old data boots and switch careers. Obviously they don’t show any real data yet. Maybe my queries need to be more specific, but these mostly feel like charts that were made to accommodate every data choice and angle instead of narrowing down to something useful.

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