Disentangling Data Science
Category: visualization
Do you have a bunch of data but you can’t seem to figure out how to display it? Or looking for that one specific visualization of which you can’t remember the name?
www.datavizproject.com provides a most comprehensive overview of all the different ways to visualize your data. You can sort all options by Family, Input, Function, and Shape to find that one dataviz that best conveys your message.
Update: look at some of these other repositories here or here.
Aaron Jackson, Adrian Bulat, Vasileios Argyriou and Georgios Tzimiropoulos
of the Computer Vision Laboratory of the University of Nottingham built a neural network that generates a full 3D image of a single portrait photograph. They turn a photograph like this…
… into an accurately creepy 3D image like this.
You can try it with your own or other photographs here. I found that images with white background get the best results. On their project website you can read more about the underlying convolutional neural network.
Update 21-10-2017: One of my favorite YouTube channels explains how the models were trained and the data used:
Hannah Yan Han is doing #100dayprojects on data science and visual storytelling and I can only recommend that you take a look yourself. Below you find her R text analysis (#41) of UNHCR speeches and TV coverage on refugees.
Unsurprisingly, nouns like asylum, repatriation, displacement, persecution, plight, and crisis appear significantly more often in UNHCR speeches on refugees than in general English texts. The first visualization below shows the action-oriented verbs most commonly used in combination with these nouns.
This second visualization shows the most occurring verb-noun pairs.
Hannah used newsflash to retrieve the GDELT data on US TV news. Some channels seem to cover refugees more than others. I would have loved to see which topics occurred on each channel, but unfortunately she did not report on this.
Reddit user LucasCu90 used the R package twitteR to retrieve all tweets that were sent with #Irma and a Geocode of central Miami (25 mile radius) from Saturday September 9, to Sunday September 10, 2017 (the period of Irma’s approach and initial landfall on the Florida Keys and the mainland). From the 29,000 tweets he collected, Lucas then retrieved the 600 most common words and overlaid them on a map of Florida, with their size relative to their frequency in the data. The result is quite nice!
Jack Zhao from Small Multiples – a multidisciplinary team of data specialists, designers and developers – retrieved the Language Spoken at Home (LANP) data from the 2016 Census and turned it into a dot density map that vividly shows how people from different cultures coexist (or not) in ultra high resolution (using Python, englewood library, QGIS, Carto). Each colored dot in the visualizations below represents five people from the same language group in the area. Highly populated areas have a higher density of dots; while language diversity is shown through the number of different colors in the given area.
Good news: the maps are interactive! Here’s Sydney:
Here is the original webpage on Small Multiples and you can browse the interactive map in full screen in your browser. The below language groups are included:
The people at Predictive Talent, Inc. took a sample of 23.4 million job postings from 5,200+ job boards and 1,800+ cities around the US. They classified these jobs using the BLS Standard Occupational Classification tree and identified their primary work locations, primary job roles, estimated salaries, and 17 other job search-related characteristics. Next, they calculated five metrics for each role and city in order to identify the 123 biggest job shortages in the US:
The end result is this amazing map of the job market in the U.S, which you can interactively explore here to see where you could best start your next job hunt.
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