February 12th, 2021 by AnyChart Team
“Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a clear and convincing voice,” Stephen Few once said. That actually is the purpose of data visualization. On DataViz Weekly, we show you how this works in reality. Welcome to our new roundup of the most interesting data visualization projects we’ve recently found!
- Comparing live and studio versions of songs — The Pudding
- Historical wildfires in the U.S. West — Reuters
- Boston’s most desirable streets — MIT Senseable City Lab
- Inequality and COVID-19 vaccine allocation in America — GHJP Yale & C4SR Columbia
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February 5th, 2021 by AnyChart Team
Data visualization is our passion and we are glad to high-five all who share it! Welcome to DataViz Weekly! For all of you guys, we have curated another four new awesome interactive data visualization projects worth checking out. Glance at their list below and then take a closer look:
- WorldTour transfers during the 2020-2021 offseason — Carrie Bennette
- Precinct-level map of the 2020 U.S. election — The Upshot
- Representation of age generations in the U.S. Senate over time — wcd.fyi
- Healthy Streets Index for London — _STREETS
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February 3rd, 2021 by Shachee Swadia
Would you like to add another really cool and interesting chart to your data visualization portfolio? Follow this simple tutorial and you’ll learn how to create a beautiful and interactive Angular Gauge using JavaScript, with ease!
An Angular Gauge, also known as a Circular Gauge, is a type of gauge chart with a radial scale. Such visualizations can nicely show a value within a range and are widely used in various dashboards.
The recent good news of vaccines feels like music to our ears. So, I thought why not take some interesting music data for visualization in this tutorial! The 63rd annual Grammy Awards ceremony will be held in March 2021, and when I looked through the list of the Record of the Year nominees, I wondered how popular each of these songs is. To find out, I decided to look at the number of their streams on Spotify, one of the world’s leading music streaming platforms, and thought that a Solid Angular Gauge could work well in such a visual analysis. It also resembles a vinyl record, which makes it an especially interesting chart type to opt for when representing such data!
So, along the tutorial, I will be visualizing Spotify stream counts for each 2021 GRAMMYs Record of the Year nominee song in a JS Angular Gauge chart. That is going to be entertaining! All aboard!
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January 29th, 2021 by AnyChart Team
We continue our weekly blog feature where we show you the best data visualizations we’ve met out there over the past seven days. Here’s our new selection of stunning charts and maps from different creators — check it out! Today on DataViz Weekly:
- La Niña and its impacts — Bloomberg
- Donald Trump’s false and misleading claims while in office — The Washington Post
- COVID-19 risk levels by county — The New York Times
- Sriwijaya Air fleet — Reuters
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January 25th, 2021 by Shachee Swadia
In these times of exponentially growing data, visualization is a necessary skillset to have in your tool box. Popular techniques include bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, and bubble maps among others.
Building interactive charts from scratch with JavaScript can be a difficult endeavor for any developer, especially someone starting out new. That is exactly why we have JS charting libraries which make it much easier and quicker to conjure up insightful visualizations!
Read on to see how I create a JavaScript Bubble Map with one of these libraries.
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January 22nd, 2021 by AnyChart Team
For those unfamiliar with DataViz Weekly, each Friday we select the most interesting data visualization projects from all we’ve discovered these days around the internet. Then we present them in a dedicated summary post. Look at our new picks!
- Electric, hybrid, and gas car costs vs emissions — NYT
- Nearest English football team — Automatic Knowledge
- Map of 100,000 books — David Manzanares
- Drone privacy legislation worldwide — Surfshark
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January 15th, 2021 by AnyChart Team
Lately, we’ve come across a number of compelling new data visualizations on climate change and related topics. And we’ll tell you about some of the most interesting ones right now! Check out the new DataViz Weekly roundup.
- Fingerprints of climate change in 2020 — Reuters
- Global warming in European municipalities — EDJNet
- Top greenhouse gas emitters — WRI
- Future of U.S. fossil fuel-fired electricity — Emily Grubert
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January 8th, 2021 by AnyChart Team
Each week throughout the 2020 year, we curated the most interesting data visualizations from around the Web and introduced them to you in the DataViz Weekly roundup. Now is the time to look at the best of the best! We will hand you over to distinguished experts — Nathan Yau, Alli Torban, Lea Pica, Kenneth Field, and the GIJN team — who have already made their (brilliant) choices. Meet their picks for the best data visualizations of 2020!
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January 1st, 2021 by AnyChart Team
2020 was strange. It was difficult. But it was. Happy New Year everyone! 🎉
Even though 2020 was not that bad in everything, we all hope, of course, that 2021 will be (much) better. Let it be so! But before we dive into the new one, let’s take a glance back and remember 2020 as is, with the help of great data visualizations.
The January 1st issue of DataViz Weekly invites you to look through the lists of the charts included in the year-in-review features on Visual Capitalist, Recode by Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and The Economist. Sneak a peek, and then check out the graphics.
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December 25th, 2020 by AnyChart Team
Merry Christmas everyone (who’s celebrating)! 🎄 Meanwhile: COVID, election, and environment — the topics quite symbolic for this year are in the spotlight of today’s, the year’s last DataViz Weekly. Don’t miss out on some of the latest best data visualizations!
Look at the list of projects featured on DataViz Weekly this time and keep reading to learn more about each:
- Winners of the 2020 U.S. election by funding from Wall Street — Bloomberg
- COVID-19 infection rates in prisons by state — The Marshall Project
- Novel coronavirus strains in evolution worldwide — Reuters
- River colors across the United States — Gardner Hydrology Lab at Pitt
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