Tag: Data Science

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Milán Janosov

What ChatGPT (and Humans) Say About Data Science Trends

Milán Janosov asked ChatGPT about data science. Then, he analyzed Twitter to see what humans think about the topic. Here's how they compare.
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Milán Janosov & Patrik Szigeti

FIFA World Cup 2022 – The Network Edition

After a long qualifying process packed with surprises (Italy missing out as the reigning European champions) and last minute drama (both Egypt and Peru missed..
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Ripley Cleghorn

Behind the Scenes of “The Future of Data Science”: An Interview with Ciera Martinez

A few months ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with Ciera Martinez to discuss the founding of the project, Data Science by Design,..
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Milán Janosov

Game of Thrones — Network of the Dragon

One of my first data science projects was titled, Who Dies Next in the Game of Thrones?—a short article based on my data mining semester..
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Nikita Rokotyan

How to Visualize a Graph with a Million Nodes

Large-scale graph visualizations are tricky. The more nodes and edges you have in your network, the more difficult it is to compute the layout for..
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Jason Forrest, Jill A. Brown, Nate Coursey, Tristan Guillevin, Jeff Harrison & Eli Holder

“In the end, all data visualization ends up with a conversation” — A Joint Review of Eyeo 2022

The Eyeo festival has always held an interesting place in the community as, I’m told, it never really focused on any specific subject matter. At..
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Jenn Schilling

Early Sketches for Career Portraits in Data Visualization

This article is part of a larger effort to leverage the DVS Survey data to provide useful insights about data visualization to our members. Previous..
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Michael Friendly

Remembrances of Things EDA

Published for Tukey Day, June 16, the 107th anniversary of John Tukey’s birthThis article recounts the origins and influences of the movement in statistics and data..
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Milán Janosov

50 Years of Oscars: Acting Success and Collaboration

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, have been one of the most prestigious awards in the film industry for nearly a century, acknowledging..
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Milán Janosov

Is There a Happy Ending for the Peaky Blinders?

Peaky Blinders is an award-winning historical drama series produced by BBC Studios. The show is set between the two world wars and is centered around..
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Nick Desbarats

I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?

tl;dr: After having explained how to read box plots to thousands of workshop participants, I now believe that they’re poorly conceived (box plots, not workshop..
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Jeremy Kuzub

Aurora Speeding Tickets

Before smartphones, digital cameras, and orbiting satellites, the international scientific community recruited volunteer observers across the globe to record and report aurora borealis activity as..
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Rajesh Sigdel

Using Infographics to Make Climate Change More Visible to the Public

Climate change may not be a directly observable phenomenon, but its impacts are currently threatening the lives of all living organisms. Although the majority of..
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Katie Kilroy

What is Data Scaffolding?

Even if you’ve never heard of data scaffolding, it’s likely that you have (or will face!) a data problem of your own for which scaffolding..
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Alexandre Morin-Chassé

The Stellar Chart: An Elegant Alternative to Radar Charts

Radar charts, also called web charts, spider charts or star charts, are often used to display various characteristics of a profile simultaneously. Whether it presents..
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Alexandra Khoo

Sweet Love: Popular Wedding Songs Reimagined As Cupcakes

These days, it seems, you can’t attend a wedding without hearing the soft croon of Ed Sheeran at some point. It got me thinking, is..