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The Radar chart and its caveats
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How I made the viral map - Data Stuff
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| | I made a map! And it went viral! Neat! https://twitter.com/erindataviz/status/1489009794245541888 I got a number of requests for the code, so I thought this would be the best forum to share how I made it. To be honest, I whipped this out to quickly to illustrate a concept in Slack, then tweeted it because I liked...
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How To Approximate Pi With A Short Pencil And A Big Paper | Fronkonstin
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| | Experiment, be curious: though interfering friends may frown, get furious at each attempt to hold you down (Tony Bennett, Experiment) Instructions: Take a pencil and measure it Take a piece of paper and draw parallel lines on it (you can use the pencil, of course); separation between lines should double the length of the pencil Toss the pencil
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Understanding PCA using Stack Overflow data | Julia Silge
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| | freerangestats.info
Sankey plots can work, but need polishing like any other graphic
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| I set out to improve a Sankey plot that had been shared as an example of how bad they are, and hopefully show that some careful design decisions and polish can make these plot useful for purposes like seeing cohorts' progress (up, down, same) over time.