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Introduction to the DOM  | DigitalOcean

Introduction to the DOM | DigitalOcean

Introduction to the DOM Developer and author at DigitalOcean. Introduction The Document Object Model, usually referred to as the DOM, is an essential part of making websites...

Smart Outlier Detection Assistant

Smart Outlier Detection Assistant

Smart Outlier Detection Assistant Download topic as PDF Smart Outlier Detection Assistant The Smart Outlier Detection Assistant enables machine learning outcomes for users with...

The Declutter and Focus Concepts – Popular Academic Opinions or Effective Design Principles?, Nightingale

The Declutter and Focus Concepts – Popular Academic Opinions or Effective Design Principles?, Nightingale

Declutter and focus are two guidelines for creating clear and efficient visualizations. The declutter guideline suggests removing all the non-critical elements of the chart like...

The 10 Best Tips for your Top-of-Funnel Marketing Strategy

The 10 Best Tips for your Top-of-Funnel Marketing Strategy

Modern marketing tactics require you to have a strong understanding of your customers, the journey they take to make a purchase, and the goals and pain points they have along...

Why Do All Websites Look the Same?

Why Do All Websites Look the Same?

8 min read Why Do All Websites Look the Same? The internet suffers from a lack of imagination, so I asked my students to redesign it Today’s internet is bland. Everything looks...

What Makes a Data Visualization Confusing?

What Makes a Data Visualization Confusing?

Why are some visualizations so easy to understand at first sight while others seem to be some sort of graphical puzzle? Why do some visualizations need to be relearned every...

How Pew Research Center uses git and GitHub for version control

How Pew Research Center uses git and GitHub for version control

The research we do on Pew Research Center’s Data Labs team typically involves multiple members of our team working collaboratively on code that covers all aspects of a research...

Data Horror Stories - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Data Horror Stories - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Working for data teams unavoidably creates horror stories that crystalize themselves in the brains of those who have experienced them. Terrible bosses who don’t understand...

What's the plot of your data story?

What's the plot of your data story?

It rains cats and dogs once a day. Iguanas sunbathe next to the road. You try to speak Spanish but sound French. The scattered sentences above are small beats of my holiday...

Alternative Map Projections in Tableau

Alternative Map Projections in Tableau

If you've already read the blog post and you are just looking for the files, you can download them from my Google Drive here.  Otherwise, please check out the full blog post...

Persistent Systems Navigates New ‘Digital Engineering’ Zones

Persistent Systems Navigates New ‘Digital Engineering’ Zones

Technology evolves, constantly. But like all fluid entities, the inherent dynamism that we know exists in software development, always naturally coalesces and crystallizes into...

Night Light Maps Open Up New Applications

Night Light Maps Open Up New Applications

NASA scientists have released new global maps of Earth at night, providing the clearest-yet views of the patterns of human settlements across our planet. Satellite images of...