Data Visualizations
Inspiration for visualizing data, concepts and theories. And on how to work with data and become a data scientist.
Collection by Katja Evertz
TNW
Google launches animation tool so you can turn boring data into cool GIFs
3 min · · Google has launched a new animation tool to help you breathe life into data by turning boring number charts into cool GIF illustrations. · Shared by 585, including Thomas Power, Luca Hammer, Liza Sperling, fernand0, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Moritz Meenen, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Balthasar Glättli🌻 🕊, Hugo Londoño, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Matt Navarra, Johannes Lenz, Katja Evertz, Helmi, Stephanie A Kowalski, Tris Hussey, Mark Kaigwa, Rand Fishkin, Kris Fannin, Andreas Von Gunten
Fast Company
This map shows which companies have lasted hundreds (and even thousands) of years
3 min · · A new set of maps charts the world’s oldest companies—and exposes the ways many of them relied on slave labor. · Shared by 538, including Antonio Ramos, Jose Paul Martin, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), John Koetsier, Mark Kaigwa, Howard Getson, Liliane Ferrari ™, Jonathan Kogan, Jennifer Hurst, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Jessel Sookha, Matthias Lampe, Juliana de Albuquerque | @ajuliana@mas.to, Gisele Navarro, Katja Evertz, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Rick Powell, Pixel, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Marius Bleuer
students.brown.edu
Seeing Theory
1 min · · A visual introduction to probability and statistics. · Shared by 531, including Vincenzo Tremonte, Pat Kua, Florian Hanke 🍎, Björn Ognibeni, Philippe Surber, Leni "Lee" Krsova ⚔️, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Alex Barrera, Katja Evertz, Dominik Grolimund, Data Science Renee, Luca Hammer, Lluís Codina, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Sérgio Vieira, Helmi, Thomas Power, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, René Clausen Nielsen
Datawrapper
How to pick more beautiful colors
11+ min · · Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier. · Shared by 517, including Claudio Noguera, Stephanie A Kowalski, Toni Juan, Josh Blaha, Jacob du Toit, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Mike Taylor, Xihong Lin, CSS Weekly, Jessel Sookha, Neil Hart 💙, Nrupal Akolkar, Lisa Charlotte Muth, Stef Walter, Evan (he/him), Scott Jenson left for Mastodon
Visual Capitalist
Our Top 22 Visualizations of 2022
20+ min · · The world was a complex and volatile place in 2022. In our signature style—combining art, data, and storytelling—we helped millions of people make sens · Shared by 504, including Katja Evertz, Howard Getson, Matt Shaffer
Visual Capitalist
Ranked: The Most Innovative Economies in the World
17+ min · · A country's ability to innovate helps it stay competitive on the global stage. Where are the most innovative economies, and how has the list changed? · Shared by 494, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Andres Saldarriaga, Tauno, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Jeremiah Owyang, Ian M Calvert, Katja Evertz, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Danie, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Mike Quindazzi, Lorenz König, Jonathan Kogan, LARRY ELKAN, Jansnet
Visual Capitalist
Ranked: The World’s Most Popular Social Networks, and Who Owns Them
11+ min · · Currently, there are over 4.5 billion people around the world who use some form of social media—about 57% of the global population. Yet, while social media& · Shared by 483, including James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Chris Gledhill, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Lisa Gualtieri, Tom Raftery, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Matthias Lampe, DP, Jim Marous 💯, Oliver Raduner, Nige Roberts-Willson, Nicolas Babin, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Álvaro Felipe, Ian M Calvert
Visual Capitalist
Visualizing the History of Pandemics
11+ min · · The history of pandemics, from the Antonine Plague to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) event, ranked by their impact on human life. · Shared by 437, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, George J Huba PhD, Josh Olszewicz, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Michael Clemens, Chris Messina, Chris Gledhill, Klaus Eck, Karen McGrane, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Dr. Syra Madad, Aarron Walter, Bill Gross, Ajit Pai, Giuliano Liguori, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Ferris Jabr, Pippa Malmgren, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy
medium.com
39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes — Medium
20+ min · · These are my speaker notes from a talk I gave at OpenVis in April 2016. Originally this talk was supposed to be called “Everything we know… · Shared by 437, including Massimo Banzi, Matthias Lampe, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Mara Averick, Alligator.io 🐊, Pat Kua, Dominik Grolimund, Travis Murdock, Mark Kaigwa, René Clausen Nielsen, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Katja Evertz, Herbert Bay, Daniel Boos, Stephen C Sanders, Stephanie A Kowalski, Leonardo Sumulong, Ines Bieler, Data Science Renee, Thomas Power
Visual Capitalist
A Visual Timeline of AI Predictions in Sci-Fi
13+ min · · AI is shaping the global economy in unprecedented ways, and transforming life as we know it—but science fiction has predicted this all along. · Shared by 424, including Talkwalker, Hans Bickhofe, Yves Mulkers, Lisa Gualtieri, Gabriele, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, LARRY ELKAN, Dominik Grolimund, Stephanie A Kowalski, Jim Marous 💯, Katja Evertz, Ines Bieler, Tamara McCleary
Nicky Case · 🐘 mas.to/@ncase
What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations
17+ min · · an interactive guide · Shared by 422, including Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Jacques Fellay, Dion Almaer, Ines Bieler, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Stever Robbins @stever@newsie.social, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Thomas Power, Andy Budd, Marie-José Kolly, Katja Evertz, Bill Hanage, Mike Davidson, Michael Seemann, Brad Feld, Björn Ognibeni, Esther-Mirjam de Boer, Noah Smith, Marcel Salathé
Fast Company
U.S. election maps are wildly misleading, so this designer fixed them
3 min · · The most viral election map of 2020 was actually made by a Belgian man in 2019. · Shared by 413, including Edward Tufte, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Tom Connor, Katja Evertz, Christian Fauteux, Damien Van Achter, Marius Bleuer, Howard Getson, Matthias Lampe, Steve Case, Thomas Knüwer, Gabriele, T. Kyle, Yorokobu, Bertrand Maltaverne
National Geographic
How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic
3 min · · Social distancing isn’t a new idea—it saved thousands of American lives during the last great pandemic. Here's how it worked. · Shared by 408, including Kevin Kruse, Richard Deitsch, PNASNews, Tim O'Reilly, Horace Dediu, Michael Clemens, Nick Szabo, Elad Gil, Katja Evertz, Gregg Gonsalves, A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR, Harpreet Singh, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Rasu Shrestha MD MBA, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Carl Zimmer, Josep M. Ganyet, AntonioMaestre, Thomas Power, MΛRC VIDΛL
UX Collective
Design Better Data Tables
2 min · · The ingredients of a successful data table user interface design · Shared by 368, including Niklaus Gerber, René Clausen Nielsen, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Abdelsalam Smadi, Marc Hinse, Fabricio Teixeira, designshard, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Dominic Grzbielok, Helmi, Christopher Möller, Kunal Bhatia, Dez S. Papp, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Simon07, Nils Hitze, Jacob Jarnvall, Manuel Reinhard, Katja Evertz, Andreas Bossard
explained.ai
How to visualize decision tree
20+ min · · Decision trees are the fundamental building block of gradient boosting machines and Random Forests(tm), probably the two most popular machine learning models for structured data. Visualizing decision trees is a tremendous aid when learning how these models work and when interpreting models. Unfortunately, current visualization packages are rudimentary and not immediately helpful to the novice. For example, we couldn't find a library that visualizes how decision nodes split up the feature space. · Shared by 360, including Michael Duergner, Dominik Grolimund, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Esther Schindler, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Katja Evertz, Jonathan Kogan, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Florian Hanke 🍎, Daniel Buchmueller, David Nagel, TDMx, Philipp Laurim, Thomas Telandro, Tom Connor, Jacob du Toit, hiten.eth, Mark Kaigwa
medium.com
What I Learned About My Writing By Seeing Only The Punctuation
· I made a web tool that lets you spy your hidden literary style · Shared by 359, including Galen King, ɯoɔ ʇop pןɐʍuɐƃɐɹ uo ǝɯ puıɟ, Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane, Katja Evertz, Clive Thompson, Esther Schindler, Nils Hitze, DP, Albert Ràfols, Linda Liukas, Sarah E. Brown, Ines Bieler