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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Best Data Visualizations of 2021 — DataViz Weekly
January 7th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
In 2021, there were 53 Fridays. It means a total of 53 DataViz Weekly roundups came out during the year, putting a spotlight on some of the most interesting charts, maps, and infographics from around the web. Today, on the first Friday of 2022, we invite you to remember — or get to know in case you missed something — the very best data visualizations of 2021.
As in previous “best of year” collections (2020, 2019, 2018), we decided not to reinvent the wheel but to take a quick look at renowned experts’ picks. Now, check out four lists of the best projects — from Nathan Yau, Kenneth Field, Terence Shin, and DataJournalism.com.
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2021 Year in Review in Graphics — DataViz Weekly
December 31st, 2021 by AnyChart Team
As we get ready to ring in the New Year 2022, it’s a great time to take a look back at 2021! Over the last 365 days, various experts in data graphics and visual storytelling have done their best to help us better understand what was going on around us with the help of static and interactive charts, maps, and infographics. Now we want to let you recall the most important matters that shaped the passing year from the lens of data visualization.
Here, in the final DataViz Weekly issue of 2021, we bring you a roundup of the year-in-review-in-graphics recaps on Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and POLITICO.
Check it out, see the awesome visuals, and enjoy the start of a very happy, healthy, and prosperous new year that we wish you all to have in 2022! 😎🎉
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New Compelling Data Visualization Projects to See on Christmas Eve (or Later) — DataViz Weekly
December 24th, 2021 by AnyChart Team
With so many options, we have finally selected the four most compelling of all new data visualization projects seen over the last few days and can’t wait to tell you about them. Welcome to DataViz Weekly on the second last Friday of the year! But before we get down to business: Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!
- Arab soccer national teams and players — Al Jazeera
- America’s noisiest and brightest cities — Esri
- Social distancing in honey bee hives — The Economist
- Global food system in detail — Our World in Data
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Data Visualization Best Practices in Action — DataViz Weekly
December 17th, 2021 by AnyChart Team
Committed to bringing you the most robust charting solutions, we also continue to curate weekly roundups highlighting projects that greatly implement data visualization best practices, for your inspiration. A new one is here! Look what we’ve got for you to check out this time on DataViz Weekly:
- Tornadoes since the late 19th century — Tornado Archive
- Emoji use frequency in 2021 — Unicode
- Links between climate change and violent conflicts — Crisis Group
- Curry’s rise to the NBA’s three-point king — The Washington Post
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