Category Archives: Data Visualization
Hans Rosling, Edutainer
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo] In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ Rosling tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country … Continue reading
U.S. Doctors and Politics
On average, the specialties with the highest salaries tend to have the most Republicans. Salary $200k-$450k The New York Times: In surgery, anesthesiology and urology, for example, around two-thirds of doctors who have registered a political affiliation are Republicans. In … Continue reading
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Data visualization: Plotting life expectancy against income for 200 countries over 200 years
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo?rel=0] Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has … Continue reading
Apple is in a Category All by Itself (#dataviz)
Source: Data Science Central
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Jeffrey Heer on the Future of Data Visualization (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1bq0qIKoA] Baking more “design smarts” into analysis and decision-making tools Re-think basic user interfaces (tool automatically recommends interesting views) Show data variation, not design variation (Edward Tufte) How might our tools spur us to exercise skepticism and consider new … Continue reading
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Data & The New Era of Interactive Storytelling–Strata+Hadoop 2014 (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFcQwgcLxiA] Data is an evolving story. It’s not a static snapshot of a point in time insight. With data from internal and external sources constantly updating, we are evolving from rear-view mirror dashboard views into an era of … Continue reading
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Google Music Timeline (Data Visualization)
Google Research Labs The Music Timeline shows genres of music waxing and waning, based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library, and other data (such as album release dates). Each stripe … Continue reading
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Taxonomy of Comic Book Characters (#Dataviz)
Source: Tim Leong See more Information is Beautiful awards here and here
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Competitive Data Science with R and Python (Video)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C6tHO-o-yo&w=560&h=315] Corey Chivers presents “From Dark Matter to Whale Calls: Competitive data-mining with R and Python” at Montreal Python; quotes John Tukey “The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard” and updates … Continue reading