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Getting Started — Data Visualization Style Guidelines

Getting Started — Data Visualization Style Guidelines

This document aims to provide a basic outline for creating a data visualization style guide for your organization. It leverages our collective knowledge to establish a basic set...

What to consider when considering data vis rules

What to consider when considering data vis rules

This is the transcript of a 40min-talk I gave at SHOW on the 28th of November 2020. You can find all the slides in that insanely fast GIF up here, or as PDFs on Github. There is...

A Solution to the Hex Map Filtering Issue

A Solution to the Hex Map Filtering Issue

Ever since I created my first hex map in Tableau, I've had a problem in which I never loved any available solution.  That problem occurs when you utilize filters.  Sometimes...

Visionaries is alive!

Visionaries is alive!

Hello. It’s great to see you again. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? As my career matures, my ambitions grow. It has become difficult to provide regular and meaningful updates...

Visualizing Rivers and Floodplains with USGS Data

Visualizing Rivers and Floodplains with USGS Data

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is REALLY close to an incredible goal: by 2023 it aims to have a super detailed 3D scan of every square mile of United State territory. The...

K-Means From Scratch

K-Means From Scratch

About K-Means From Scratch A deep dive on K-Means where smart initialization and the full algorithm is implemented from scratch using pytorch Clustering November 6,...

Writing Effective Revision Response Letters

Writing Effective Revision Response Letters

When you submit a paper to a journal for the first time, the most likely outcome (besides rejection) is not usually acceptance — for myself, I think I have only had a single...

Data Storytelling Is the Conduit for Modern Data Literacy, Nightingale

Data Storytelling Is the Conduit for Modern Data Literacy, Nightingale

All the images in this article are taken from a keynote about humanizing AI that I delivered in June 2022 at the London Tech Week. This article has been written to expand on the...

Site Changes Coming, How to Follow Sites, and Where I’ve Been

Site Changes Coming, How to Follow Sites, and Where I’ve Been

This site has been around for over 16 years now, and a lot has changed in the world during that time. I’m currently working on an overhaul and wanted to give everybody an idea...

Visualizing Changes in CO₂ Emissions Since 1900

Visualizing Changes in CO₂ Emissions Since 1900

Visualizing Changes in CO₂ Emissions Since 1900 ELEMENTS NEWSLETTER Visualizing Changes in CO₂ Emissions Since 1900 Published Email Visualizing CO₂ Emissions Since 1900 Leaders...

The Beginner's Guide to Tableau Table Calculations | Playfair Data

The Beginner's Guide to Tableau Table Calculations | Playfair Data

Tableau’s table calculations, while very powerful, can be both tricky and confusing to work with. There are some great benefits to using table calculations including efficient...

Visualize BigQuery data in Jupyter notebooks  |  Google Cloud

Visualize BigQuery data in Jupyter notebooks  |  Google Cloud

A notebook provides an environment in which to author and execute code. A notebook is essentially a source artifact, saved as an IPYNB file. It can contain descriptive text...