Data Science Disentangled
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MIT researchers have spent years developing the new drag-and-drop analytics tools they call Northstar. Northstar is an interactive data science platform that rethinks how people interact with data. It empowers users without programming experience, background in statistics or machine learning expertise to explore and mine data through an intuitive user interface, and effortlessly build, analyze, … Continue reading Northstar: The interactive, drag-and-drop data science platform by MIT
Claus Wilke wrote the Fundamentals of Data Visualization - a great resource that's definitely high on my list of recommended data visualization books. In a recent post, Claus shared the link to a GitHub repository where he hosts some of the R programming code with which Claus made the graphics for his dataviz book. The … Continue reading Recreating graphics from the Fundamentals of Data Visualization
On twitter, I came across the tweet below showing some great GIF visualizations on the dangers of taking small samples. https://twitter.com/i/status/1134935416497250304 Created by Andrew Stewart, and tweeted by John Holbein, the visuals show samples taken from a normal distributed variable with a mean of 10 and a standard deviation of 2. In the left section, … Continue reading GIF visualizations of Type 1 and Type 2 error in relation to sample size
Data visualizations that make smart use of icons have a way of conveying information that sticks. Dataviz professionals like Moritz Stefaner know this and use the practice in their daily work. A recent #tidytuesday entry by Georgios Karamanis demonstrates how easy it is to integrate visual icons in your data figures when you write code … Continue reading Creating plots with custom icons for data points
Data visualization and the (in)effective communication of information are salient topics on this blog. I just love to read and write about best practices related to data visualization (or bad practices), or to explore novel types of complex graphs. However, I am not always online, and I am equally fond of reading about data visualization … Continue reading Recommended Books on Data Visualization
Looking for a custom typeface to use in your data visualizations? Google Fonts is an awesome databank of nearly a thousands font families you can access, download, and use for free. If you're into design, the website includes a blog featuring articles on font design. Google Fonts among others provided the font for my dissertation … Continue reading Google Fonts: 915 free font families
