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. See also: getting started with visualization after getting started with visualization. The main theme is to make more charts.

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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. One of the best ways to learn how to visualize data is to apply it to a specific field. Tags: birds , Jer Thorp , learning Sounds good to me.

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FlowingData

MARCH 8, 2024

Be sure to see Stamen’s process post on the design choices behind the visual explorer. Tags: agriculture , climate , food , Stamen Stamen, in collaboration with Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils, mapped the potential shifts for a variety of crops.

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MARCH 21, 2024

The visualizations are clinical, which is kind of sad given the topic of the report. 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. Someone should collate the data and have some fun with it.

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MARCH 18, 2024

The Pudding is running an experiment that functions like a visual version of Telephone. Tags: loss , Pudding , Russell Samora , sketch This looks fun. In Telephone, the first person whispers a message to their neighbor and the message is passed along until you end with a message that is completely different.

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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. Tags: basketball , Sravan Pannala I can always use more basketball data, so I’ll bookmark this for later.

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Art of Insight , by Alberto Cairo, highlights how designers approach visualization with a wide view. In the narrowest view of data visualization, you use charts to pull quick, quantitative information from dashboards and reports. I enjoyed reading and thinking about the less mechanical side of visualizing data.

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FlowingData

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For Scientific American, Jack Murtagh describes the importance of visualization in understanding the roughness of data : One maxim that should be etched into the walls of all scientific institutions is to visualize your data. Tags: Francis Anscombe , noise , Scientific American

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FlowingData

MARCH 31, 2022

Say what you will about circular visualization, but the spiral plays. This one from NASA shows global temperature change over time : The visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies between the years 1880-2021. The data file used to create this visualization can be accessed here.

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MARCH 1, 2024

I’m a sucker for slow data collection and physical visualization. Tags: geology , Harry Young , physical , Scotland He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing. He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share Thirty years.

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Giorgia Lupi, known for using data visualization to connect real life and numbers, has been dealing with long Covid for the past three years. In a visual guest essay for NYT Opinion, Lupi describes her experience of fear, pain, and hope using a spreadsheet and a diary of brush strokes. Worth your time.

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FlowingData

JUNE 2, 2023

In an effort to provide a more transparent process in visualization and interaction research, The Journal of Visualization and Interaction begins : The Journal of Visualization and Interaction (JoVI) is a venue for publishing scholarly work related to the fields of visualization and human-computer interaction.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It’s the second edition of Visualize This. 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 wrote a book!

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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 25, 2023

Using the third dimension in visualization can be tricky because of rendering, perception, and presentation. Matthew Conlen, Jeffrey Heer, Hillary Mushkin, and Scott Davidoff provide a strong use case in their paper on what they call cinematic visualization : The many genres of narrative visualization (e.g.

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FlowingData

JUNE 15, 2022

Hands-On Data Visualization , by Jack Dougherty and Ilya Ilyankou, is an open-access book geared for beginners. Tags: book , interaction. The book starts with spreadsheets, and then walks you through some of the more high-level JavaScript libraries to put things online relatively quickly. You can also grab a physical copy.

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 14, 2022

MLU-Explain continues with their visual explainers for machine learning and statistical concepts. Tags: MLU-Explain , regression. Most recently, Jared Wilber gets into linear regression. Towards the bottom of the explainer, there’s an interactive chart that lets you place dots on the plot and the fitted line updates as you go.

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FlowingData

JULY 29, 2022

So of course someone entered “data visualization in the style of insert-anything-here” for a wide array of inspiration. Tags: AI , DALL-E , OpenAI. You can enter very random things and get very real-looking output. I’m partial to the bar chart made out of cake.

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FlowingData

APRIL 28, 2023

However, as NPR shows and describes in a visual series , the large amounts of fresh water melting into the ocean mixes in with currents and changes temperatures, chemistry, and water levels globally. Tags: climate change , glaciers , NPR Ice is melting at the poles, which makes it seem like a localized problem.

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JULY 3, 2023

From the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab, Mosaic is a research project that aims to make it easier to show a lot of data and make it interactive between views : Mosaic is a framework for linking data visualizations, tables, input widgets, and other data-driven components, while leveraging a database for scalable processing.

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The New York Times visualized the shift with animated maps. Tags: China , fishing , New York Times. China’s fish supply is running low along its own coast, so they’ve shifted their fishing activities globally.

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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 21, 2021

Visualization and perception researcher Lace Padilla was on the kid-centric show Mission Unstoppale to talk about visualizing uncertainty: I approve of this message. Tags: Lace Padilla , Mission Unstoppable , uncertainty.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Nightingale is a publication from Data Visualization Society that offers more depth for many topics in the field of visualization. Tags: magazine. They’re working on a print magazine of the same name. Subscribed.

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FlowingData

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Nightingale has a kid’s section with printable visualization activities. Tags: kids , Nightingale. Get the kids started early while they absorb information like a sponge.

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FlowingData

JULY 14, 2022

There’s a data visualization book bundle on Humble Bundle this month. Tags: books , Bundle. Get twenty-two books for eighteen dollars — with a portion of the proceeds going to Girls Who Code. Seems like a pretty good deal.

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Olli library aims to make it easier for developers to improve the accessibility of existing charts : Olli is an open-source library for converting data visualizations into accessible text structures for screen reader users. Tags: accessibility , Matt Blanco , Olli.

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FlowingData

APRIL 5, 2023

The 2022 results from the State of the Industry survey , run by the Data Visualization Society, are out. Tags: Data Visualization Society , industry , work

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The COVID-19 Online Visualization Collection is a project to catalog Covid-related graphics across countries, sources, and styles. Tags: collection , coronavirus. They call it COVIC for short, which seems like a stretch for an acronym and a confusing way to introduce a project to people.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Tags: analysis , principle. Briefly, the elements of an analysis are the individual basic components of the analysis that, when assembled together by the analyst, make up the entire analysis.

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FlowingData

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A series of packed bubbles, cartograms, and flowcharts provide a visual timeline for each country’s reactions. Tags: New York Times , Russia , sanctions , Ukraine The New York Times shows how the west tried to isolate Russia and how things haven’t gone as expected.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Fabio Crameri, Grace Shephard, and Philip Heron in Nature discuss the drawbacks of using the rainbow color scheme to visualize data and more readable alternatives: The accurate representation of data is essential in science communication. Tags: color , nature , rainbow , science

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

With the holidays just about here, I’m sure there’s nothing you’d rather do more than listen to hours of visualization research talks from VIS 2022. Tags: conference , talks. Lucky for you: all the talks are online. Just sit back, relax, and let the knowledge wash over you.

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JUNE 18, 2021

Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer have a new book out: A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication. They rewind back 400 years and discuss the beginnings of visualization, when nobody knew what a chart was. Visualization still seems like a relatively new thing. It’s old.

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Hundreds of years from now, how much visualization work is still viewable? You can also browse the data visualization tag to see some of the earliest made charts. Tags: David Rumsey , history , San Francisco Chronicle. For preservation, I wish we saw more of this and less blockchain.

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FlowingData

JUNE 11, 2021

As a way to reflect on 2020, Catherine Madden wove tapestry to visualize six time series. Tags: Catherine Madden , physical , weaving. via Visualising Data ].

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Spectrograms visually represent sound. Tags: AI , music , spectrogram , Stable Diffusion. Stable Diffusion is an AI model that lets you enter text to generate images. Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros combined the two for Riffusion, which lets you enter text and the model generates a spectrogram that is converted to audio.

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