January 19th, 2023 by Julien Blanchard, Meta
Over the past few weeks, I have been looking for a quick and effective way of representing the structural differences within a set of similar-looking short sentences.
To provide a bit of context, as we approached the end of 2022, my workmates and I got heavily involved in a planning phase for the new year to start. More specifically, we were asked to write a set of objectives and key results that would help drive a common strategy across our supported programs and pillars over the months to come.
And as expected, each and every one of us ended up leaving comments for every subtle change made to the couple of sentences that had initially been dropped into a shared document. As the comments started piling up, it quickly became quite tedious to follow and understand the slight modifications that were being made to our original set of objectives and key results.
As I started exploring what we could have done to better capture and visualise these changes, I recently found a way to display text data in a hierarchical way that I thought would be worth sharing.
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January 13th, 2023 by AnyChart Team
DataViz Weekly is our regular blog feature where we curate the most exciting charts, maps, and infographics we’ve recently come across. Today, we want to attract your attention to some cool visual stories published out there near the end of the last year, which we did not get a chance to spotlight before:
- Animal species extinction over time — Reuters
- Daylight optimization in the United States — FiveThirtyEight
- Top human names for dogs — The Washington Post
- Snowfall across the U.S. — William B. Davis
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January 6th, 2023 by AnyChart Team
Finally we are in 2023! May this new year be the best one for all of you!
Before getting too far into 2023, we thought it would be interesting to look back at 2022 in data visualizations. And the first DataViz Weekly in the new year seems like a nice occasion! Let’s say farewell to 2022 by recalling its hottest topics with the help of “year in graphics” features on Politico, The Post, NYT, and Bloomberg.
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December 30th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
2022 has been fruitful in terms of data visualizations for every taste and interest. On DataViz Weekly, we’ve shown you more than 200 awesome projects as great examples of effective charting and mapping in action. Today, in the year’s last edition, let’s look at the best data visualizations of 2022 through the eyes of third-party experts!
Find out which projects made it to the “best of the year” selections of Nathan Yau, DataJournalism.com, The Pudding, and Kenneth Field.
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December 29th, 2022 by Shachee Swadia
With data everywhere around, we should know how to graphically represent it to better (and faster) understand what it tells us. One of the most common data visualization techniques is column charts, and I want to show you how you can easily create interactive ones using JavaScript.
A column chart is a simple, yet powerful way to display data when you need to compare values. From this tutorial, you will learn to make its different variations — basic single-series, multi-series, stacked, and 100% stacked column graphs — and apply effective customizations in a few more lines of JS code.
As a cricket fan, I thoroughly watched the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup held last month in Australia. I decided to use some data related to the championship for illustrative visualizations. JavaScript column charts built throughout this tutorial will let us look into the batting statistics, and more precisely, the number of runs scored by the top 10 batsmen at the tournament. Let’s have fun learning!
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December 23rd, 2022 by AnyChart Team
While the Christmas spirit is already in the air, join us for a quick look at some amazing new data graphics that really caught our attention these days. And you’ll even know what Santa Claus has in common with Gandolf, Dark Lord Sauron, and Tom Bombadil. So, here’re the data visualizations featured in this DataViz Weekly:
- Inevitability of the super rich — The Pudding
- Adult illiteracy across the United States — ProPublica
- Carbon emissions footprint per household across the United States — The New York Times
- Intersections between Santa Claus and Tolkien’s characters — Tea with Tolkien
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December 23rd, 2022 by Awan Shrestha
There are various data visualization techniques designed to reveal insights that numbers alone just can’t. In this tutorial, we will see how to easily create a radar chart using JavaScript. It is an effective way to graphically represent multivariate data of several quantitative variables.
Writing the tutorial during the FIFA World Cup 2022, I could not resist taking some football data for a practical illustration. The JS radar chart examples built and customized here step by step will plot the number of goals three top players have scored for their clubs over the last six years: Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Robert Lewandowski.
The whistle for kickoff is blown, and it all begins!
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December 16th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
It’s easier to analyze data when it is visualized in the form of a chart or a map. On DataViz Weekly, we share with you some vivid examples we have recently seen out there. Here’s our newest collection!
- Blackouts in Kyiv — Volodymyr Agafonkin
- Earth’s slowest-warming parts — The Washington Post
- Twitter Blue subscribers — The New York Times
- Land use in the United Kingdom — Bloomberg
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December 9th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
DataViz Weekly consistently curates the most awesome new data visualization works that might serve as an inspiration for your own great projects. Check out what we’ve got for you today!
- Russian influencers in Europe — Texty
- Fast food prices across the United States — Riley Walz
- Split delegations in the U.S. Senate since 1914 — Reuters
- Disadvantaged communities across the U.S. — CEQ
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December 2nd, 2022 by AnyChart Team
We continue the DataViz Weekly series with a new collection of interesting charts and maps curated from around the internet. Today, we want to put a spotlight on the following impressive visualizations that truly let data speak:
- Winter death toll in Europe — The Economist
- Upward mobility from personal experience — The Pudding
- Shifts in Democrat and Republican follower counts on Twitter under Elon Musk — The Washington Post
- Carbon footprint by country — Electricity Maps
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