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Still working on various talks - but no stress here
This week has been a fun one: I got a newsletter thank you mail that made my day - thanks for that! During the data analysis I've been working on all week, I only listened to the NPR tiny desk concerts that make me smile (1, 2, 3). It might be funny, but I feel like my brain work better when listening to the same thing over and over again. And I picked up the books for my Portuguese language course. Yes, I'll be learning a new language. *yay* :) Really looking forward to that, but first I'll be working on the final details of my Smart News Design talk...
PS. Promise to say hi when you see me in Amsterdam or Antwerp, I'd love to meet you!
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Coal lobbyists tried to sabotage EU regulations—and they nearly got away with it. I don't know about gradients inside charts, but the investigating reporting is solid. Nice work by Corin Faife. (Image by Federica Fragapane.)
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The Ultimate Halloween Candy Power Ranking, by FiveThirtyEight.
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Not sure what happened, but the other day I fell into an internet blackhole and passed Bloombergs Pessimists Guide to 2018 again. I hope they're working on a 2019 edition...
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Tony Hirst started a newsletter on Jupyter Notebooks. You can read the first editions - first second here. (PS. for the not-coders: these notebooks are basically endless notebooks for code; making data exploration and communication much easier.)
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Missed it last month, but The Economist is opening up: “We plan to publish more of our data on GitHub in the coming months—and, where it’s appropriate, the analysis and code behind them as well.” Follow The Economist on Github, where they share code and data. Really this should be the default, IMHO.
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Never use 3d; not everything that can be on a map, should be on a map; and stay away from pie charts unless you know what you're doing. In the world of datavis, design guidelines are everywhere. I haven't tried it yet, but the Draco project promises to consider these guidelines for you. “Draco can warn you if your chart violates design rules and provide design suggestions, even for ambiguous requests such as “visualize the horsepower of these cars using a bar chart.”
Really fancy this idea, because it would come with datavis tools as a default, making good charts will become easier for most. (Especially since now, the default setting in vis tools is rarely the right one.)
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According to the New York Times the upcoming midterm election in the US is the most diverse ever. They made a face book out of the candidates and then went next level using these faces in an isotype kinda way to make barcharts.
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In case you want more midterm related data journalism: StoryBench made a round up collecting not so obvious ways to visualise voter turnout data.
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