The Crime Machine
I‘m behind on my podcast listening (well, behind in everything tbh), but ReplyTags: crime, discrimination, police, Reply All
Uses for Animation in Charts and Animating Your Own Data
Important question: Is animation in visualization even worthwhile? Well, it depends. Surprise, surprise. In this issue, I look at animation in data visualization, its uses, and how I like to think about it when I implement moving data.Tags: animation
City road maps made into solvable mazes
Michelle Chandra uses street data as a base for solvable mazes: I drawTags: maze, roads
Finding a house to buy, using statistics
Atma Mani, a geospatial engineer for ESRI, imagined shopping for a house withTags: house, personal, recommendation
Color distribution in campaign logos
In news graphics, blue typically represents Democrat and red represents Republican. However, theTags: color, election, Washington Post
Neural networks to generate music
Kyle McDonald describes some of the history and current research on using algorithmsTags: music, neural network
Street names as a proxy for history and culture
From Streetscapes by Zeit: Street names are stories of life. They tell usTags: streets, Zeit
Visualization research for non-researchers
Reading visualization research papers can often feel like a slog. As a necessity,Tags: audience, research
Book of hand-painted ski maps
When you go skiing or snowboarding, you get a map of the mountainTags: paintings, skiing
Inflated counts for cleared rape cases
Newsy, Reveal and ProPublica look into rape cases in the U.S. and lawTags: law, police, ProPublica, rape
Where Camp fire destroyed homes
The Camp fire death toll rose to 63 and 631 missing as ofTags: Los Angeles Times, wildfire