Social Explorer is an online data mapping application. The free tier only includes access to the Census 2000, according to their pricing chart. But, it looks like an interesting tool for analyzing data, and I wanted to bookmark for future reference.
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A View of Despair
A View of Despair is a really interesting visualization of suicide statistics in the Netherlands in 2017.
The Pandemic Cyclone
"This chart shows the daily number of new Covid-19 infections in each state over time. The y-axis is the population-normalized number of new infections per day; the x-axis is the rate of transmission (Rt). Each dot is a state or territory of the US, colored by region, and the area of the dot is proportional … Continue reading The Pandemic Cyclone
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research
"The purpose of this article on COVID-19 is to aggregate existing research, bring together the relevant data and allow readers to make sense of the published data and early research on the coronavirus outbreak."https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus When you get tired of listening to people that don't know what they are talking about blather on about epidemics, cures … Continue reading Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research
The tidyverse style guide
All style guides are fundamentally opinionated. Some decisions genuinely do make code easier to use (especially matching indenting to programming structure), but many decisions are arbitrary. The most important thing about a style guide is that it provides consistency, making code easier to write because you need to make fewer decisions."-Hadley Wickham, "The tidyverse style … Continue reading The tidyverse style guide
Miller
"Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON." Available in Debian derivatives via: $ sudo apt-get install miller Also has a nice 10 minute introduction.
An Introduction To Data Science On The Linux Command Line
...provide[s] the reader with a brief overview for a number of different Linux commands. A special emphasis will be placed on explaining how each command can be used in the context of performing data science tasks. The goal will be to convince the reader that each of these commands can be extremely useful, and to … Continue reading An Introduction To Data Science On The Linux Command Line
Gardener’s Vision
"Without communication, connection, and empathy, it becomes easy for actors to take on the “gardener’s vision”: to treat those they are acting upon as less human or not human at all and to see the process of interacting with them as one of grooming, of control, of organization. This organization, far from being a laudable … Continue reading Gardener’s Vision
Two Computing Revolutions, Exhibit R: Manipulating & Visualizing MASIE Sea Ice Data
Back in April 2018, I mentioned the idea of two computing revolutions: "There are two computer revolutions. One revolution is trying to abstract out the technology and present people with an easy, touch interface to accomplish specific tasks. Using your phone to take a picture, send a text message, post to social media, play YouTube … Continue reading Two Computing Revolutions, Exhibit R: Manipulating & Visualizing MASIE Sea Ice Data
How the BBC Visual and Data Journalism Team Works With Graphics in R
"Over the past year, data journalists on the BBC Visual and Data Journalism team have fundamentally changed how they produce graphics for publication on the BBC News website. In this post, we explain how and why we have used R’s ggplot2 package to create production-ready charts, document our process and code and share what we … Continue reading How the BBC Visual and Data Journalism Team Works With Graphics in R
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