This video is a really pretty visualization of the A* pathfinding algorithm using #OpenStreetMap road network data for #Chicago and #Rome as examples.
My visualisation of Australian fruit and veg seasonality made the Information is Beautiful awards longlist.
As the food bowl of Australia was flooded thanks to #CycloneAlfred, the information in the guide may be off for a bit until we recover!
#Dataviz books everyone should read 
- a community sourced #charticle https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/dataviz-books/ Created in association with @DataVizSociety #iibwab
Did you ever wonder who's the most thanked person at the Oscars? 
https://stephenfollows.com/p/harvey-weinstein-thanked-more-than-god
How a small detail in #DataViz can change your understanding of the data. I have these 20 scatterplots for 20 various climate models. It seems that in some models there's a relationship, in other not so much, and in some it's clearly non-linear while in others is harder to tell.
Next, I used a fixed scale for all panels and also added all dots in gray to each panel. Whoa, that's different! Now it looks like each model is representing a different part of the population!
Some light reading for a bit of a distraction, if you will: Vivian Li from @thepudding looked at how "cultures can hear the same physical sounds yet translate them into language so differently".
Neat. My "Analyzing fediverse followers of my creative online bots" data visualization was accepted for this year's Information is Beautiful Awards' longlist.
Tableau has become such a massive, awful hunk of junk since Salesforce bought it that I taught myself a whole programming language to get away from it.
Unfortunately today I have to open Tableau. After getting through 38 incredibly dumb "cloud based login" pieces of crap, it fails with "Unexpected Application Error!"
The system to submit a support ticket? Also down.
40 free tip sheets, presentations, and/or repos from awesome data journalists, professors & researchers, from last week's #NICAR25 conference.
Learn about mapping/GIS, GitHub Actions, R, Python, LLMs, command-line tools, JavaScript, and lots more.
Links at https://www.machlis.com/nicar/
Pretty fascinating look at how "Covid changed everything", in 30 charts.
"Decades from now, the pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today: an unmistakable spike, dip or jolt that officially began for Americans five years ago this week."
How would you represent the evolution of a (symmetrical) second rank tensor in space?
Specifically a strain tensor that changes in two-dimensions.
(I know how to colour code the different strain tensor components, but would rather have all the information at once)
(exagerating it and doing a 3D model works for the larger changes but less so the subtle ones)
We are #hiring! We are seeking a skilled part-time research software engineer to provide leadership on the implementation of an open software and data infrastructure in support of the new EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Diversity in Data Visualization (DIVERSE CDT).
I'm trying to develop the habit of checking Peertube more often. Found this.
"This is a presentation of the paper "Only the Old and Sick Will Die" -- Reproducing Eugenic Visuality in COVID-19 Data Visualization, published in the proceedings of IEEE Tech and Society 2022."
https://diode.zone/w/b11ded51-f821-4c3b-a392-56011fe93ae7
#Eugenics #Dataviz #COVID #Ableism
My monthly #Arctic temperature graphics have just been updated through February 2025, which was one of the most anomalous months on record for this region: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-temperatures/
Which Python dashboard library for which purpose?
We were left with only two candidates: Voilà and Panel: https://jupyter-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dashboards/voila-panel.html
#DataViz #Python
This week's #TidyTuesday data looked at animals at Long Beach animal rescue center and I focused in on the patterns of when owners surrender their dogs 
Aim: show higher resolution (daily) data alongside aggregate counts
Why: view temporal patterns on different scales at the same time
How: lollipop chart + background heatmap
Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2025/2025-03-04
I'm not really sure when @micahflee made his Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations book free to read online, but if it's been on your wish list, now's your chance to give it a read, and if you enjoy it, and can afford to, support the author.
https://hacksandleaks.com/contents.html
Buy here: https://hacksandleaks.com/
With all the new #Apple releases this week, it’s time to update my #AppleSilicon chart again. 
Btw, weird decision that they’re releasing the Mac Studio with an M4 Max and M3 Ultra. Wonder what lead up to this generational split? Maybe the short M3 timespan?
#dataviz
A woman's age vs. the age of the men who look best to her vs the same chart for men.
(classic #dataviz of @Okcupid data)
