R and GPX – How to Read and Visualize GPX Files in R | R-bloggers
Geospatial data is everywhere around us, and it’s essential for data professionals to know how to work with it. One common way to store this type of data is in GPX files. Today you’ll learn everything about it, from theory and common questions to R and
2023-12-28
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Pop Culture Pulsar: Origin Story of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover [Video]
Sure, I was familiar with the graphic–and I’m not alone. Drop this image (right) on someone’s desk and chances are they’ll reflexively blurt, “Joy Division.” The band’s 1979 Unknown Pleasures album cover leaned entirely on a small mysterious
2023-12-27
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Playing Dataviz Tennis for Collaboration and Fun, Nightingale
Inspired by Layer Tennis, we collaborated on four data visualizations (four matches) where we swap the file back and forth adding to the work. Each match lasted for eight or 10 rounds with 45 minutes per round, and the person who served got to choose the
2023-12-21
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Data visualization: An invaluable tool in a defender's arsenal - Help Net Security
Visibility is always a priority, but it’s vital when responding to an incident. Time is always working against incident responders. Looking through rows of text data and making connections between them and the suspicious activity under investigation is time
2023-12-16
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Visualizing America’s Most Popular Fast Food Chains
Given the allusive nature of brands, determining a brand’s financial value is a difficult task. Despite a brand’s intangibility, it’s hard to deny just how effective a strong one can be at boosting a company’s bottom line. With this in mind, Brand
2023-12-15
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New Data Viz & Data Art Projects and Updates
It’s been a long time since my previous newsletter. I had to look it up, the previous one was from July 2021! I’ve created lots of new works since then, mostly (self-initiated) data & generative art collections, instead of my usual client work. Let me
2023-12-14
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Course on Visualization for Machine Learning: Initial Report
This semester I started a new graduate course at Northeastern onVisualization for Machine Learning. I am particularly excited about this course because it strongly connects with our research over the last few years. As usual, teaching is an excellent way to
2023-12-10
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“I Can’t Draw” and Other Conversations I Always Have with My Dataviz Students, Nightingale
When you, like me, have been teaching for a while, you realize there’s a fundamental paradox: no two clusters of students are alike, yet all of them merge in your mind as archetypes. There’s always the one who can do much better than what they are
2023-12-07
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A rich portrait of the country's religious and ethnocultural diversity
Text - Selected Tables Related information PDF (798 KB) Released: 2022-10-26 Canada is known for its ethnocultural and religious diversity, a characteristic of the country valued by the vast majority of Canadians. According to the 2020 General Social
2023-12-07
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