Logo

The Data Daily

Images Powered by Shutterstock
7 IoT Platform Vendors to Watch Out For

7 IoT Platform Vendors to Watch Out For

Choosing the right IoT vendor is challenging. Seven IoT platforms stand out as contenders for supporting smart city solutions and their associated Applications. The IoT...

Michael Nielsen on visualization and making a new science

Michael Nielsen on visualization and making a new science

Michael Nielsen on visualizations, biological systems, and making a new science 72 min read Share this post Michael Nielsen is a quantum physicist, science writer, computer...

Course on Visualization for Machine Learning: Initial Report

Course on Visualization for Machine Learning: Initial Report

This semester I started a new graduate course at Northeastern onVisualization for Machine Learning. I am particularly excited about this course because it strongly connects with...

“I Can’t Draw” and Other Conversations I Always Have with My Dataviz Students, Nightingale

“I Can’t Draw” and Other Conversations I Always Have with My Dataviz Students, Nightingale

When you, like me, have been teaching for a while, you realize there’s a fundamental paradox: no two clusters of students are alike, yet all of them merge in your mind as...

New Data Viz & Data Art Projects and Updates

New Data Viz & Data Art Projects and Updates

It’s been a long time since my previous newsletter. I had to look it up, the previous one was from July 2021! I’ve created lots of new works since then, mostly (self-initiated)...

Visualizing America’s Most Popular Fast Food Chains

Visualizing America’s Most Popular Fast Food Chains

Given the allusive nature of brands, determining a brand’s financial value is a difficult task. Despite a brand’s intangibility, it’s hard to deny just how effective a strong...

Deploy IIoT sensors and networks in remote locations | Control Engineering

Deploy IIoT sensors and networks in remote locations | Control Engineering

Smart sensor and device installations are flourishing everywhere, forming the basic building blocks of any Internet of Things (IoT) initiative. Applying IoT capabilities can be...

Discovering Data Visualisation: How I Discovered and Fell in Love with Data Visualisation Art, Nightingale

Discovering Data Visualisation: How I Discovered and Fell in Love with Data Visualisation Art, Nightingale

I stumbled upon data visualisation art quite by accident early in 2022, at a time when I was at an interesting crossroads in my life. I’m a neurodivergent woman in my 40s and my...

Concreteness vs faithfulness in visual summaries

Concreteness vs faithfulness in visual summaries

This is Jessica. I recently had a discussion with collaborators that got me thinking about trade-offs we often encounter in summarizing data or predictions. Specifically, how do...

Woven Time: Thoughts on Our Experience of Time in a Mashup, Nightingale

Woven Time: Thoughts on Our Experience of Time in a Mashup, Nightingale

Our experience of time is simplest described like this: we move forward, and we measure periods by units like seconds, minutes, hours, etc. But I don’t really think that’s all...

Fonts for Graphs - Evergreen Data

Fonts for Graphs - Evergreen Data

If you aren’t a font nerd, this post is for you. If you like discussing the differences between Helvetica and Arial over cortados, this post is also for you. When it comes to...

Painting the corner

Painting the corner

Found an old one sitting in my folder. This came from the Wall Street Journal in 2018. At first glance, the chart looks like a pretty decent effort. The scatter plot shows...