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Advantages and Best Uses of Four Popular Data Visualization Tools

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualization tableauposted by Paxtyn Merten October 2, 2018

Data visualization platforms vary widely in their capabilities, required skill sets, and uses. While some platforms are easy to use, they oftentimes can’t communicate complex, multivariable data the way that tools with a little more complexity can. Here, we compare four popular visualization programs and their advantages, disadvantages, and... Read more

Training and Visualising Word Vectors

Data Visualization Modelingposted by Priya Dwivedi August 28, 2018

In this tutorial, I want to show how you can implement a skip gram model in tensorflow to generate word vectors for any text you are working with and then use tensorboard to visualize them. I found this exercise super useful to i) understand how to skip gram model... Read more

Isaac Reyes on the Key Principles of Data Storytelling at ODSC East 2018

Conferences Data Visualization Modeling odsc east 2018posted by Alex Amari August 20, 2018

Where Cole in The Sixth Sense sees dead people, Isaac Reyes sees bad charts. In his role as founder and data scientist at DataSeer Inc., Reyes helps individuals and businesses better understand and convey the messages hidden in data. And in his keynote at ODSC East 2018, Reyes shared... Read more

Ready Made Plots Make Work Easier

Data Visualization Modelingposted by John Mount May 24, 2018

A while back Simon Jackson and Kara Woo shared some great ideas and graphs on grouped bar charts and density plots (link).Win-Vector LLC‘s Nina Zumel just added a graph of this type to the development version of WVPlots. Nina has, as usual, some great documentation here. More and more I am finding when you are in the... Read more

Data Visualization Throughout the Data Science Workflow: Part 1

Data Visualization Modelingposted by Lindsay Brin May 23, 2018

Scientists, including data scientists, often focus on numerical methods and analyses, glossing over visualization and communication. We want to believe that “the data speaks for itself.”1 However, data visualization is an essential tool in a data scientist’s toolbox. Data visualization allows you to see patterns that would be invisible —... Read more

Introducing GapminderVR: Data Visualization in Virtual Reality

Data Visualization Modelingposted by Daniel Lemire April 26, 2018

I am a big fan of sites such as Gapminder and Our World in Data. Such data visualization sites are like intellectual pornography. You want to know which countries are doing better? Which continents drink more alcohol? How is alcohol related to GDP? Have people getting fatter recently, or is that a... Read more

Moving Beyond Data Visualization to Data Applications

Data Visualization Modelingposted by Exaptive Team March 27, 2018

One thing we love doing at Exaptive – aside from creating tools that facilitate innovation – is hiring intelligent, creative, and compassionate people to fill our ranks. Frank Evans is one of our data scientists. He was invited to present at the TEDxOU event on January 26, 2018. Frank gave a great talk... Read more

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Graph: Hospital Social Network Analysis

Data Visualization Modeling Big Data|Data analysis|ODSC East 2018|Social Network Analysisposted by Michael Zelenetz March 14, 2018

In the 1840’s Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis had a big problem on his hands. He was an obstetrician in the Vienna General Hospital and healthy young women in the maternity ward were dying at an alarming rate. The problem was well known throughout Vienna. There were two wards, we’ll call... Read more

SEINFELD CHARACTERS – A POST ABOUT NOTHING

Data Visualization Modeling R Statistics Tools & Languagesposted by Scott Stoltzman February 24, 2018

This post is dedicated to my mother – Seinfeld’s greatest fan. Seinfeld is a classic TV sitcom. It featured four main characters surrounded by relatively normal, everyday, run of the mill scenarios. In the spirit of Seinfeld, this post will also “be about nothing.” Load Required Libraries library(scales) library(RMySQL)... Read more

Random Forest Classification of Mushrooms

There is a plethora of classification algorithms available to people who have a bit of coding experience and a set of data. A common machine learning method is the random forest, which is a good place to start. This is a use case in R of the randomForest package used on a data... Read more