Dataviz

Bits It was inevitable that the government would publish its response to its Data: A new direction consultation shortly after I pressed send on this newsletter a couple of weeks ago. (Not the Data Reform Bill itself, as some briefing had it — date to be determined.) …

An overview with many links. Recently, I’ve had a few people ask me what steps I would recommend that they follow to facilitate their learning of Tableau and create their very own dashboard. This blog post should help you get started in making your very first visualisation (viz). First of…

As part of my Data Analyst Nanodegree at Udacity course work, I was required to demonstrate the steps taken in order to gather the data from its sources, assess it, clean it, store it, analyze it, draw 3 insights, and finally create some cool and insightful visualizations. This project…

Análise do Twitter sobre a última pesquisa para presidente O mês de Junho foi marcado pela redução da frequência de divulgação das pesquisas eleitorais para presidente da república. Há indicações de que o segundo lugar na disputa de acordo com absolutamente todos os institutos de pesquisa não quer que seu nome apareça com frequência nos gráficos de barra nessa…

by Adam Frost — In this blog series, we look at 99 common data viz rules and why it’s usually OK to break them. Another set of rules about pie charts relates to how many wedges it is sensible to show. Lisa Charlotte Rost, who writes superbly about charting for Datawrapper, discourages the use…

Com a função bar_label ficou mais fácil para colocar rótulos diretamente nas barras Nesse artigo vamos mostrar dois exemplos de gráficos com barras e a utilização da função bar_label, facilitando a configuração das etiquetas/rótulos nas barras. Em primeiro lugar, devemos verificar qual a versão do matplotlib está instalada em nosso…

The First Data Revolution Sono trascorsi quasi dieci anni, da quando per la prima volta si parlò di Data Revolution (1), ovvero quel cambiamento radicale che avrebbe dovuto consentire lo sviluppo di un nuovo approccio, volto a facilitare la produzione, l’elaborazione e l’utilizzo dei dati e ad aumentare il grado di…

by Adam Frost — In this blog series, we look at 99 common data viz rules and why it’s usually OK to break them. In Rule 1, we established that it’s fine to use pie charts. But how do we make sure we are using them well? In an excellent blogpost, Robert Kosara suggested…

Keep the FOIA burning Four months after asking the Cabinet Office for a list of Cabinet committees and their membership, I finally received an answer. For those of you following the saga, you will be shocked — SHOCKED — to learn that answer was no. My Twitter thread details the whole thing, including the…