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Visual Communication in Python: Pie Charts with Matplotlib
A personal story about how I started using Python for my research: when I was a post-doc at Microsoft, I was embarrassed to ask them to buy me Matlab. But I knew how to plot things in Matlab and I...
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Infographics in Python: Plot a Noun Project Icon on a Matplotlib Chart
I had to put an icon on a chart in Python last week, and I couldn’t find a good brief blog about how to do it. Here is what I cobbled together: 1. Find a free, appropriate image from The Noun Project....
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Visualizing Uncertainty
http://faculty.washington.edu/jhullman/paper_BELIV_evaluating_uncertainty_vis.pdf http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr04/cos598B/bib/Harrower.pdf...
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New words of wisdom from S Few
The Visual Perception of Variation in Data Displays http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/the_visual_perception_of_variation.pdf (well, it was new when I started this post)
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Big Data Science resources
• The Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) and Library are pleased to announce the release of open educational resources...
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Ideas that did not make it into my recent Data Viz talk
D3js in any substantial way Steve Few email list, and his example with isotype and patient risk charts 538.com viz stuff
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OHSU BD2K material on data visualization
https://github.com/OHSUBD2K/BDK18-Data-Visualization
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S Few on expressing proportions
Always makes me think: http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/expressing_proportions.pdf Not sure I agree so much with this edition, but I like that he is taking on those...
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To read: EnsembleMatrix paper
EnsembleMatrix: Interactive Visualization to Support Machine Learning with Multiple Classifiers http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/cue/publications/CHI2009-EnsembleMatrix.pdf I want...
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Beyond the Sum-Difference Plot
Bland–Altman plot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bland–Altman plot example A Bland–Altman plot (Difference plot) in analytical chemistry and biostatistics is a method of data plotting used in...
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Major Updates to GBD Compare tool
Lots of new features: http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/ Very smooth UX. Do old links still work?
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I asked for an improvement to mpld3, and somebody did it!
So cool! http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/aflaxman/153dc591c6b63578d9ec If you don’t ask, how would somebody know that you want it: https://github.com/jakevdp/mpld3/issues/312
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IDV in Python: Interactive Legend in MPLD3
We got a nice pull request for mpld3 recently, interactive legends. Another chance for me to use my new GIF animation recorder: https://github.com/jakevdp/mpld3/pull/299#issuecomment-110434953
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Unhide a toolbar in MPLD3
Did you ever want to know how to unhide the toolbar in MPLD3? Here is how: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29976625/unhide-toolbar-in-mpld3
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How did I end up reading a 30 year old book on density estimation?
Simple, I wanted to make violin plots for efficiency scores, and they shouldn’t have any density below zero. Here is a sneaky way to sneak such a figure out of Python/Seaborn:...
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Tables of Stacked Bars in mpl (but not mpld3)
Here is a little feature in Matplotlib that I never saw before: stacked bar plots with tables attached. Perhaps too ugly for my Iraq Mortality stacked bar charts, but definitely handy for exploratory...
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Pretty bug in mpld3
It’s not quite d3-broke-and-made-art quality, but I like the plot in this bug report: https://github.com/jakevdp/mpld3/issues/274#issuecomment-68576519
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Interactive Horizontal Bar Charts
Some notes on them here: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/aflaxman/c93489dd19cee2eabf00
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Introducing Smudge
I had an inspiration to make something a couple weeks ago for #MakeSomethingDay (the productive alternative to #BuyNothingDay). It is a finger-painting app that neighborhood kids have been enjoying....
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Stephen Few on Display Platforms
A new issue of Stephen Few’s Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter is out. I love categorizing things like this. I have been thinking of interaction very differently than he has, but everything else...
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