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Ben Dexter Cooley

How to create a personal digital bookshelf with OpenLibrary

All the code you need to programmatically track your books and display them in your own personal web library

8 min readSep 24, 2021

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How to create a personal digital bookshelf with OpenLibrary

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Nightingale

Data Visualization as Grief

What we gain when we think beyond spike maps, choropleths, and curvy case charts

10 min readJan 22, 2021

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When Machines Learn

How to use data visualization to validate imputation tasks

Creating custom charts can help us better understand, validate, and improve imputation tasks in data science and machine learning.

8 min readOct 2, 2020

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How to use data visualization to validate imputation tasks

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When Machines Learn

An Introduction to Imputation: Solving problems of missing and insufficient data

Missing data is a common problem. Here’s how imputation can help.

4 min readJul 30, 2020

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An Introduction to Imputation: Solving problems of missing and insufficient data

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Ben Dexter Cooley

Data visualization resources for the age of the coronavirus

We have a responsibility to visualize, communicate, and translate data accurately. Here’s where to start.

7 min readMar 16, 2020

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Data visualization resources for the age of the coronavirus

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Nightingale

My year in Data: a Visual Reflection on 2019

I tracked my activities for a year. Then I visualized them. Here’s what I learned.

8 min readJan 29, 2020

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My year in Data: a Visual Reflection on 2019

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Better Programming

Here’s What I Learned From 30 Days of Creative Coding (a Codevember Retrospective)

Go easy on yourself. Try something new. Learn in public

6 min readJan 10, 2020

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Here’s What I Learned From 30 Days of Creative Coding (a Codevember Retrospective)

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Towards Data Science

How to build a time series dashboard in Python with Panel, Altair and a Jupyter Notebook

Two filters + one interactive area chart in roughly 25 lines of code.

6 min readAug 23, 2019

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How to build a time series dashboard in Python with Panel, Altair and a Jupyter Notebook

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UX Collective

A new UX method for building better data visualization products

You’ve heard of user personas, and maybe even Jobs to Be Done. But what about QTBA? No? Good. I made it up.

7 min readFeb 13, 2019

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Towards Data Science

Why visual literacy is essential to good data visualization

We know data literacy matters. But visual literacy matters too. Here’s why.

5 min readJan 29, 2019

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Ben Dexter Cooley

Ben Dexter Cooley

Visualization Software Engineer @ Pattern (Broad Institute). Designer, developer, data artist. Portfolio: bendoesdataviz.com | Art: bdexter.com

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