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Comparing Different Styles of Data Visualization

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Today’s post is about comparing two different styles of data visualizations from two different sources.
Oct 30, 2022
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Sample Shiny Program

A reactive website using Shiny
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This is a sample program made using Shiny for R. It allows the users to choose between three datasets, mtcars, USArrests, and uspop that are built into R. It displays a summary of the variables and a user-specified number of observations.
Oct 27, 2022
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Second Hackathon Results

Another reactive website using Shiny
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This is the result of the Hackathon for our team! This is a Shiny web application that displays three different graphs depending on a user input: either a Vehicles, Diamonds, or Economics graph.
Oct 27, 2022
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More Great Charts!

Charts 3-5
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These are my recreations of the Bar Chart, Column Chart, and Circular Area Chart in this diagram:
Oct 26, 2022
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Reviewing the Work of Thomas Lind Pederson

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Today’s post is about reviewing the work of Thomas Lind Pederson, some of which can be found here.
Oct 18, 2022
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An Overview of Literate Programming

From Knuth (1984)
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Today’s post is an overview of the concept of “literate programming” by Knuth (1984).
Oct 18, 2022
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The Elements of Music Visualization

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Today’s post is about the elements of music visualization, and I will be basing my discussion on this video “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFDx-L7PcrY)”) by Stephen Malinowsky.
Oct 18, 2022
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Data Visualization and Data Science (EMBL)

Discussion of new technologies
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Today’s post is a response to this video on a data science technology called EMBL, presented by Hadley Wickham, the creator of ggplot and ggplot2, linked here and included below. The video is about an hour long. At this point, it is a few years old, but the presentation touches on some great fundamentals about data visualization.
Oct 16, 2022
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The Parable of Google Flu

Big data analysis and its secret pitfalls
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Today’s post is a comment on this article, originally from Nature, titled The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis.
Oct 16, 2022
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Anscombe’s Quartet

Comparing regression models and using base R functions.
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Today, I will be looking at the Anscombe’s quartet and using the base R functions to modify the outputs of the plot() function.
Oct 11, 2022
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Paul Murrell’s RGraphics

Basic Graphics for a Basic Gal
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For this post, I am going through the data from the Happy Planet Index, and using some basic functions in R to visualize it.
Oct 5, 2022
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First Hackathon Results

Variable width bar chart and stacked bar graphs
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These are the results of our first Hackathon as a team! We worked together to create these two different data visualizations:
Oct 3, 2022
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Charts: Do’s and Don’ts

But mostly don’ts
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For this post, I found a chart with some good elements and some bad elements. Mostly bad elements. We can have a good time ripping apart bad charts, and maybe learn a little bit along the way. Let’s begin!
Sep 30, 2022
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Generative Art

Analysis and discussion
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For this post, I am bringing up something that’s been in the news a lot lately: AI art. I wanted to do a throwback to an earlier time in the field, so I found this article by The New York Times from 2015 about a piece (pictured above) that was actually put on auction at Christie’s in New York.
Sep 30, 2022
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Generative Leaves

Classic graphing fun!
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For this assignment, I used this code to generate a few pieces of art! Below is the code I used and a small selection of artistic works. :)
Sep 28, 2022
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