Dashing Data Viz - Issue 226
Curated news, articles and jobs related to Data Visualization.
Issue #226
February 21 2023
Data Visualization Articles & Videos
hue.tools
An open source toolbox for colors…
Data, Rhetoric, & Data Visualization across Cultures (Mar 1, 2023 09:00 AM EST)
virtual panel! Together with our panelists (Loh Pei Ying, Dietmar Offenhuber, Attila Bátorfy, & Jessica Bellamy), we will discuss about charts across cultures, and explore the impact of language and culture
on data visualization design…SNAP-3D tiny script
A python script to generate a network with 3 dimensions ready to be visualize in 3D…How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions
For about five years, my instinct when working on these stories is to reach for Mapbox, which has continually pushed the field ahead with innovations like vector tiles, a style specification and tools like tippecanoe. For some projects, I’m sure we’ll continue using Mapbox. But for most of our use cases, we don’t need the latest and greatest. And Mapbox has gotten expensive. Here’s what we used instead:Down In the Sewers: Tracking Viruses with WastewaterSCAN
Late last year, Stamen worked with the group WastewaterSCAN to build a new home for the group’s public-facing charts that visualize the data they collect from wastewater treatment plants across the US. If you’ve been keeping an eye on the latest data regarding COVID-19 and other viruses like RSV, you might have noticed that there has been a shift from using tests from individuals (known as “clinical data”) to something called wastewater surveillance…PolicyViz Podcast Episode #232: Stefanie Posavec and Sonja Kuijpers
Guests this week: Stefanie Posavec, who you may know from the Dear Data project and Sonja Kuijpers, who has her own freelance studio in Europe; they teamed up to create and design Greta Thunberg’s new book on climate change. And when I saw that come out, and their involvement in the project, I wanted learn more about it, how did it all work, how did it all come together, what were all the challenges…Firefly: a new browser-based interactive particle visualization app
Firefly is an open-source web application that allows users to interactively explore and share 3D particle data. Users can filter, recolor, and resize millions of data points in real time without additional software or hurdles. The uniquely user-friendly interface facilitates image and video capture, encouraging its use as an intuitive public outreach tool…ChatGPT and AI’s Impact on Data Visualisation Work
If ChatGPT and other AI tools like it continue to improve, what impact will they have in the future for DataViz work? The ChatGPT interface already has the potential to revolutionise the way we retrieve information from the internet. So how disruptive would AI tools be to the field of data visualisation? Here I would like to speculate what the future might hold…ggplot tricks I've learned about the {ggplot2} R package
The goal of this repository is to keep track of some neat ggplot2 tricks I’ve learned…I’m not incredibly adapt in gloriously typesetting plots and expertly finetuning themes and colour palettes, so you’d have to forgive me. The mpg dataset is very versatile for plotting, so you’ll be seeing a lot of that as you read on. Extension packages are great, and I’ve dabbled myself, but I’ll try to limit myself to vanilla ggplot2 tricks here. For now, this will be mostly a README-only bag of tricks, but I may decide later to put them into separate groups in other files.Favorite matplotlib configuration setting for beautiful scientific charts? [Twitter thread]
What is your favorite matplotlib configuration setting for beautiful scientific charts? Links welcome to open source or examples of charts you love…Vis Telephone [Twitter Thread]
Students in my Vis for Sci Comm class are running an exercise they came up with that's a sort of "vis telephone": in groups, students get a graph on paper, write a text description of it and pass it to another group, who draws it as a graph, passes it to the next group, etc...
Survey / Poll
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All my best,
Sebastian Gutierrez
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