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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 tools 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... Read more

Data Visualization – Part 3

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualizationposted by Scott Stoltzman February 11, 2018

What Type of Data Visualization Do You Choose (if any)? Determining whether or not you need a visualization is step one. While it seems silly, this is probably something everyone (including myself) should be doing more often. A lot of times, it seems like a great way... Read more

Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus

Data Visualization Data Wrangling Modeling Tools Tools & Languages Data Visualizationposted by Erik Bernhardsson January 17, 2018

I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I have a couple of blog posts in the pipeline about various updates. First up, I made a number of fixes to Git of Theseus which is a tool (written... Read more

What makes a data visualization successful?

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualizationposted by Evelyn Muenster December 14, 2017

Data visualizations can have very different goals and functions depending on the area of application. Success must therefore be measured against different quality criteria, depending on the task. When used in data analysis, success means, that a data scientist can identify the structures and patterns that... Read more

Data Visualization – Part 2

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualizationposted by Scott Stoltzman November 12, 2017

A Quick Overview of the ggplot2 Package in R While it will be important to focus on theory, I want to explain the ggplot2 package because I will be using it throughout the rest of this series. Knowing how it works will keep the focus on... Read more

The Cocktail Guide v2.0

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualizationposted by Harpreet Ghuman November 5, 2017

Revamped one of my earlier Tableau creations for submission to ‘Tableau Student Viz Contest‘. Posting here in case anyone’s interested in having a look. Read more

What Makes a Good Data Visualization – a Data Scientist perspective

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualizationposted by Gregory Piatetsky October 23, 2017

Data visualization has been a subject of many thousands of books, courses, and blogs. My course on data mining included a one-hour lecture on Data Visualization. However, since you, my reader, don’t have an hour to read this blog, here is a KDnuggets-sized summary of what makes a... Read more

Data Visualization – Part 1

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualizationposted by Scott Stoltzman October 16, 2017

Introduction to Data Visualization – Theory, R & ggplot2 The topic of data visualization is very popular in the data science community. The market size for visualization products is valued at $4 Billion and is projected to reach $7 Billion by the end of 2022 according... Read more

Data Visualization – How to Pick the Right Chart Type?

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualizationposted by Jānis Gulbis October 15, 2017

Making sense of facts, numbers, and measurements is a form of art – the art of data visualization. There is a load of data in the sea of noise. To turn your numbers into knowledge, your job is not only to separate noise from the data, but... Read more

Bundle Buddy

Blog Data Visualization Modeling Tools Tools & Languages Data Visualizationposted by Susie Lu September 18, 2017

When building a complex JavaScript application, it is common to minify code and bundle files together to optimize network requests so the app loads faster. A common pattern for complex and large applications is code splitting. Typically this breaks up the bundles by each route in... Read more