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Country-Wise Visual Analysis of Music Taste Using Spotify’s API & Seaborn in Python

Data Visualization Modelingposted by ODSC Community June 24, 2020

I recently started using Spotify and was amazed by the sophisticated technology that drives Spotify’s recommendation system based on collaborative filtering and NLP. In this project, I investigated country-specific music preferences. Data Acquisition: I scrapped the data from Spotify’s weekly regional chart’. It is a weekly list of top... Read more

Building a COVID-19 Dashboard with Tableau

Data Visualization Modeling COVID 19posted by ODSC Community June 22, 2020

We all are experts in telling stories with words and sentences. But, have you ever heard of telling stories with data? This sounds intriguing. Well, it sounded the same for me too. Being able to tell stories with data is a skill that is becoming ever more important in... Read more

What Happens to Housing Prices If People Leave a City?

Data Visualization Modelingposted by Jordan Bean June 18, 2020

Four years ago I moved to Boston for my first job, fresh-faced and ready to experience the city. I quickly followed the millennial trajectory of paying too much for a too-small apartment in the heart of the city. I traded off space and conveniences for access. I could walk... Read more

Designing a Practical and Compelling Data Visualization

Data Visualization Modelingposted by Jordan Bean May 18, 2020

Data visualization is the most powerful way to communicate data to both technical and non-technical audiences. It’s also the most “taken-for-granted” component of analytics. Few analysts have formal training in data visualization best practices. Exacerbating the problem is that the default options in applications like PowerPoint and Excel are poorly designed;... Read more

Data Visualization and Dashboards in the Era of Covid-19

Conferences Data Visualization Modeling ODSC Speaker Coronavirus COVID 19 East 2020posted by ODSC Community April 8, 2020

Data visualization is the presentation of your data analysis in a pictorial or graphical format. Its goal is to communicate information clearly and efficiently to users and enable decision-makers so they can grasp difficult concepts. It’s about techniques and forms of art as much as tools and frameworks/languages. The... Read more

Getting Started with Data Visualization Library in Python: Matplotlib

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualization matplotlibposted by ODSC Community March 31, 2020

The primary data visualization library in Python is matplotlib, a project begun in the early 2000s, that was built to mimic the plotting capabilities from Matlab. Matplotlib is enormously capable of plotting most things you can imagine, and it gives its users tremendous power to control every aspect of... Read more

Has Progress in America Peaked?

Data Visualization Modeling tableauposted by Jordan Bean March 23, 2020

Measuring Physical, Personal, and National Development over the past century I recently came across a compelling work of data visualization published by the New York Times. The author sought to prove a point that performance had peaked in men’s speed skating and more broadly in other Olympic sports too. [Related... Read more

Visualizing Bias in Data Using Embedding Projector

Data Visualization Modeling data bias visualizationsposted by Parul Pandey February 2, 2020

Before a machine learning model is deployed, its performance is evaluated. However, apart from the performance aspect, it is also important to know what the model has learnt. This is necessary so as to ensure that the model hasn’t learnt something discriminatory or biased. [Related Article: 9 Common Mistakes... Read more

Interpreting the 2020 Puerto Rico Earthquake Swarm with Data Science

Data Visualization Modeling google trends Time Seriesposted by Juan De Dios Santos January 26, 2020

Using visualizations, maps, time series and Google Trends data science, Puerto Rico earthquakes are described. Since late December 2019 until early January 2020, the southwestern region of the island Puerto Rico has been experiencing a series or swarm of earthquakes, leaving in its wake a trail of destruction and... Read more

Local Regression in Python

Data Visualization Modeling Python Tools & Languages Data Visualization logical regression Pythonposted by Allen Downey November 15, 2019

I love data visualization make-overs (like this one I wrote a few months ago), but sometimes the tone can be too negative (like this one I wrote a few months ago). Sarah Leo, a data journalist at The Economist, has found the perfect solution: re-making your own visualizations. Here’s her tweet.... Read more