Nightingale has moved:
Upcoming webinar on data visualization:
https://www.soa.org/prof-dev/webcasts/2021-data-visualizations-elements/
Data Visualization: Elements of a Strong Presentation
August 10, 2021 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET
based on this competition:
https://www.soa.org/research/opportunities/2020-data-visualization-contest/
We have people with examples using Power BI, Tableau, JSON, and Excel (I’m the one who used Excel)
One of the presenters will be covering key aspects of our entries (this had been a contest), and provide a critique in how we could improve the visualizations.
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Bible visualizations
Just bumping – webcast will be next week.
One of the things I did was take my original graph:
and then I got feedback from the main judge, and I re-did this one 4 ways:
Generally, I dislike doing bubble graphs, but I have had fun making adjustments, etc.
After the webcast, I may edit together the video I submitted for the competition, with my own commentary later.
https://www.datavis.ca/milestones/
https://www.datavis.ca/milestones/index.php?group=pre-1600
etc.
Neat stuff, even if the visualization of the timeline is a bit ugly.
Why is it all green?
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From Datawrapper (tool used to make/embed graphs in websites)
Users’ most popular graph type:
That just tracks the ranking.
Here is a bubble chart, which has bubble size to show how many graphs are being made.
shame on you, IFoA
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To get that nasty taste out of my mouth, Charles Booth’s poverty maps of London
https://booth.lse.ac.uk/learn-more/what-were-the-poverty-maps
Free O’Reilly text by Claus O. Wilke
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RIP Leland Wilkinson, the author of the Grammar of Graphics, which inspired ggplot in R
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This is clearly incomplete as I don’t see any 3-D pie charts.