Beijing Olympics Medal Trackers — DataViz Weekly
February 25th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
Following sixteen days of thrilling, action-packed competition, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics officially came to an end on Sunday, February 20. Norway finished at the top of the leaderboard, with 16 gold and 37 total medals won by its athletes at the Games.
During the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics that took place just six months before, we published a special edition of DataViz Weekly looking at four awesome medal trackers produced by The New York Times’s The Upshot, Bloomberg, Axios, and FiveThirtyEight. These interactive data visualization projects were brought back for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. So now, we invite all lovers of charts and sports to look at their newest editions. They offer a frictionless way to explore medal counts and country standings after the Games with the help of stunning visualizations.
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Check Out These Great New Visual Data Stories — DataViz Weekly
February 18th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
Eager to see some great visualizations? We’re here to tell you about four new data stories that are definitely worth checking out! See which projects made it to this DataViz Weekly and read on.
- Bubble tea versions in a visual breakdown — Taiwan Data Stories
- Age of democracies worldwide — Our World in Data
- Women in news headlines — The Pudding
- Redlining’s lasting legacy — FiveThirtyEight
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SunnyByte Chooses AnyChart for Native American Cancer Data Visualization
February 16th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
Out-of-the-box error bars and the ability to create a cool error chart without hassle have always been a major attraction of AnyChart, among other great features prompting developers to choose our JavaScript charting library. If you want to look at some real-world examples of such visualizations in action, Shen DeShayne, a partner at SunnyByte has recently brought a new interesting use case for them to our attention. The American Indian & Alaska Native Cancer Data website, his web development agency built for the University of New Mexico, represents information in interactive error charts powered by AnyChart. Learn more about the project and how our JS library is used, from a quick interview. (Stack: Craft CMS/Vue.js.)
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Recalling Most Awesome Recent Data Visualizations — DataViz Weekly
February 11th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
It’s Friday, time to recall the most awesome data visualizations of all that have caught our attention over the past week. So everyone, welcome to DataViz Weekly!
- Decline of English on Spotify — The Economist
- English Premier League contenders for the Champions League qualification — The Athletic
- Carbon footprint of food — Der Tagesspiegel
- Air temperature change in every U.S. county — The Guardian
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How to Create Calendar Chart in JavaScript
February 11th, 2022 by Shachee Swadia
A calendar chart is an effective way to represent activity over time graphically. It can nicely display how a quantity varies with the days, weeks, months, and years. If you want to learn to build stylish interactive calendar charts easily using JavaScript, welcome to my step-by-step tutorial!
To make this guide not only educating but also entertaining, I decided to reproduce GitHub’s calendar graph and visualize the repository contribution activity of Mike Bostock, a prominent computer scientist known globally as one of the creators of the open-source JavaScript charting library D3.js and of the interactive data visualization development platform Observable. So, we’ll also get a telling picture of how he performed in that regard!
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Best New Charts and Maps Not to Miss — DataViz Weekly
February 4th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
Are you sure you have seen all the best new charts and maps? Let’s see. Check out our new DataViz Weekly roundup and make sure you have not missed these four fascinating data visualization projects!
- Accuracy of Punxsutawney Phil’s and other animal meteorologists’ weather predictions — FiveThirtyEight
- The coldest day of the year across the United States — NOAA NCEI
- Tom Brady’s stellar career in American Football — The Upshot
- Budapest street names — ATLO
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Visualizing Data on Income, Volcano Eruption, Shopping, Climate — DataViz Weekly
January 28th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
Continuing our regular roundups of the most interesting charts, maps, and infographics, we are glad to spotlight a bunch of new awesome projects for your inspiration. Today on DataViz Weekly:
- Americans’ annual personal income — Nathan Yau
- Tonga eruption’s true scale — Reuters
- High street crisis in Great Britain — The Financial Times
- Climate change drivers and sufferers — Der Tagesspiegel
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Amazing Data Visualization Works Worth Seeing — DataViz Weekly
January 21st, 2022 by AnyChart Team
DataViz Weekly is here to let you know — and get excited — about the four most amazing data visualization works we have come across out there just about now. They are:
- Roadway traffic stress on bicyclists in Boston — Boston Transportation Department and Toole Design Group
- Shopping search behavior patterns for the pandemic era — Schema Design, Google Trends, Axios, and Alberto Cairo
- Thoughts and feelings about immigration in Europe — Federica Fragapane, Alex Piacentini, and ODI
- Raindrop flow path — Sam Learner
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Most Stunning New Data Visualization Projects from Around Web — DataViz Weekly
January 14th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
Thanks to your highly positive feedback, we are fully determined to continue DataViz Weekly in the year 2022, a series where the most stunning new data visualization projects are showcased and talked about. So, are you ready for it? Look what made us excited just recently and read on to learn more:
- FIDE World Chess Championship 2021 — FiveThirtyEight
- Slaveholders in the U.S. Congress — The Washington Post
- New COVID-19 cases in the United States, spiralized — The New York Times Opinion Section
- Energy, environment, policy, and society across the U.S. — Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy
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How to Create Sparklines with JavaScript
January 13th, 2022 by Shachee Swadia
Sparklines are elegant microcharts introduced by Edward Tufte, a renowned statistician and data visualization pioneer. Drawn without any axis and occupying minimal space, these tiny graphs are designed to represent the big picture displaying trends in line with text and within table cells. If you want to learn about an easy way of building a sparkline chart, it is the right place!
In this article, I will show you how to quickly create cool sparkline charts using JavaScript. With OTT content ruling the world of entertainment these days, let’s have fun learning and look at the IMDb ratings of one of the most popular shows nowadays — Money Heist (La Casa de Papel in its original Spanish).
Without more ado, come along on this journey of knowledge heist!
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