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7 Tips for Visual Search at Scale

Data Visualization Modeling Tools & Languages Uncategorized Conferences ODSC West visual searchposted by Pat Lasserre February 6, 2019

Visual search is a rapidly emerging trend that is ideal for retail segments, such as fashion and home design, because they are largely driven by visual content, and style is often difficult to describe using text search alone. It is a topic of interest to data scientists, as evidenced... Read more

Insights Through Geospatial Data Visualization

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualization|geodataposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC October 29, 2018

Data visualization is an integral part of the data science process. “Data viz” plays an important role early in the process with exploratory data analysis (EDA) and also at the end with data storytelling for representing results for enterprise decision makers. In this article, we’ll review how geospatial plots... Read more

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