Collaborate Disseminate
If your only exposure to seismologists at work is through film and television, you can be forgiven for thinking they still lay out rolls of paper to examine lines of ink under a magnifying glass. The reality is far more interesting in a field that has eagerly adopted all available …read more
Continue reading Watch Earthquake Roll Across A Continent In Seismograph Visualization Video
New parents will tel you that a baby takes a few months to acquire something close to a day/night sleep pattern, and during that time Mom and Dad also find their sleep becomes a a rarely-snatched luxury. [Seung Lee] has turned this experience into a unique data visualisation, by taking …read more
March 14th is “Pi Day”, for reasons which should be obvious to our more mathematically inclined readers. As you are not reading this post on March 14th, that must mean we’re either fashionably late to Pi Day 2019, or exceptionally early for Pi Day 2020. But in either event, we’ve …read more
When Tableau was founded back in 2003, not many people were thinking about artificial intelligence to drive analytics and visualization, but over the years the world has changed and the company recognized that it needed talent to keep up with new trends. Today, it announced it was acquiring Empirical Systems, an early stage startup with […] Continue reading Tableau gets AI shot in the arm with Empirical Systems acquisition
Massaging data to make it actionable
In this multi part data visualization design series, we’re exploring the concepts upon which we’ve used to build our user experience at ShiftLeft. In our product, we manage lots of application data, so … Continue reading Adventures in Data Visualization (Part 2)
Like many people who have a solar power setup at home, [Jeroen Boeye] was curious to see just how much energy his panels were putting out. But unlike most people, it just so happens that he’s a data scientist with a deep passion for programming and a flair for visualizations. In his latest blog post, [Jeroen] details how his efforts to explain some anomalous data ended with the discovery that his solar array was effectively acting as an extremely low-resolution camera.
It all started when he noticed that in some months, the energy produced by his panels was not following …read more
Example multidimensional data plot from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scatter_plot.jpg
In this article I’ll describe some of the design challenges and thought processes I go through when solving a common “entity list” design… Continue reading How-to nail data viz design for multidimensional data (Part 1)
Turns out Earth is just a big lava lamp. Continue reading Gaze Deeply Into This NASA Visualization of Global Aerosol Movements
Dataiku, a French startup that helps data analysts communicate with data scientists to build more meaningful data applications, announced a significant funding round today. The company scored a $28 million Series B investment led by Battery Ventures with help from FirstMark, Serena Capital and Alven. Today’s money brings the total raised to almost $45 million. Its most recent priot round… Read More Continue reading Dataiku to enhance data tools with $28 million investment led by Battery Ventures
Data visualize or die! Continue reading How to Turn a Kickflip Into a 3D Sculpture
