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Canadian Elections, Germany Under Merkel, Caracas Sounds, Night Temperatures in U.S. Cities — DataViz Weekly

September 17th, 2021 by AnyChart Team

Canadian Elections, Germany Under Merkel, Caracas Sounds, Night Temperatures in U.S. Cities, in Weekly Curated Data VisualizationsWe continue to choose the most interesting out of all the newest data visualizations published here and there and show you them in weekly roundups. It’s time to look at our fresh selection! This time, the following projects are featured in DataViz Weekly:

  • Canadian federal elections since 2000 — Stephen Taylor
  • Germany under the 16-year leadership of Angela Merkel — Reuters
  • Sounds of Caracas — Valeria Escobar
  • Abnormally hot summer nights in American cities — The Upshot

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Visualizing Mortality Statistics and Satellite Imagery Data — DataViz Weekly

September 10th, 2021 by AnyChart Team

Snapshots of the two new projects visualizing mortality statistics and two new projects visualizing satellite imagery data overviewed in DataViz WeeklyThis week, we have come across a number of wonderful new data visualization projects out there. Here are the four that we’ve found most interesting and decided to showcase today in DataViz Weekly. Join us for a quick overview of these works and check them out!

  • Black mortality gap in America — The Marshall Project
  • Excess deaths worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic — The Economist
  • Ida-caused power outage in New Orleans as seen from space — NASA Earth Observatory
  • Average seasonal colors of the United States — Erin Davis

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How to Create Financial Open-High-Low-Close (OHLC) Chart Using JavaScript

September 7th, 2021 by Shachee Swadia

Interactive Open-High-Low-Close (OHLC) chart built with JavaScript on a laptop screenA stepwise guide on how to create interactive financial charts in the form of an OHLC chart. Visualizing the stock prices of Amazon over the course of Jeff Bezos’s tenure as the CEO.

Financial charts are especially useful to represent large amounts of data and identify trends. Would like to learn one such cool financial chart called the OHLC chart that visualizes stock price movement?

Read the JS charting tutorial »


New Awesome Charts and Maps Curated for Data Visualization Fans — DataViz Weekly

September 3rd, 2021 by AnyChart Team

New Awesome Charts and Maps Curated for Data Visualization Fans — DataViz WeeklyThe seven-day wait is over for all data visualization fans wherever you are! DataViz Weekly is back with a selection of new awesome charts and maps curated from around the web. Look at our latest picks.

  • Current and historic drought conditions across the United States — Esri
  • Relationship between temperature, income, and mortality — Bloomberg Green
  • U.S. electricity mix by state — Visual Capitalist
  • Congressional redistricting rules and practices — The Washington Post

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Cesefor Uses AnyChart to Visualize Forestry Data in Nemus System

August 31st, 2021 by AnyChart Team

Nemus forestry data visualization system created by Cesefor in cooperation with Regional Government of Castile and LeonMany thousands of developers worldwide use our solutions for interactive data visualization. So it is hardly surprising to come across a graphic powered by AnyChart here or there. Some projects, however, deserve a showcase. Such a new interesting one demonstrating great use of AnyChart has recently come to our notice and we are happy to let you know about it.

A Spanish nonprofit, Cesefor used our JavaScript charting library to visualize forestry data for the Spanish region of Castile and León in a whole lot of different charts and maps, aiming to make relevant insights easily accessible and actionable for sustainability.

The project is called Nemus. Shh, it is still in beta, not yet officially launched. But Rodrigo Gómez Conejo, Head of ICT and Knowledge Management Area at Cesefor, allowed us to let you in and even gave us a brief interview disclosing some peculiar details about the system and how AnyChart is employed — check it out below. (Stack: jQuery/CodeIgniter/PostgreSQL.)

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Excellent Examples of Data Graphics from Around Internet — DataViz Weekly

August 27th, 2021 by AnyChart Team

Excellent examples of data graphics from around the internet in the latest DataViz Weekly articleAre you ready for another set of excellent data graphics examples? It’s time! The following projects made it to the newest DataViz Weekly digest — see the list below and keep reading for a closer look!

  • Average weekday in the life of Americans — Nathan Yau
  • Race and ethnicity across the United States — CNN
  • Inflation in the United States — NYT Opinion
  • COVID-19 spread across the world over time — Olivia Jack

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New Impressive Visualizations Making Data Talk — DataViz Weekly

August 20th, 2021 by AnyChart Team

A roundup of new impressive visualizations making data talkDataViz Weekly is here with an overview of new impressive visualizations that make data talk. These four projects grabbed our attention recently and we could not help telling you about them!

  • The biggest carry jobs in NBA history — The Pudding
  • Global and regional climate change effects — IPCC
  • Presidential and bipartisan infrastructure plans in comparison — The Upshot
  • Urban development and sprawl in America between 2001 and 2019 — The Washington Post

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Visualizing Codebase Structure, Climate Data, Time Use Patterns, and Census Stats — DataViz Weekly

August 13th, 2021 by AnyChart Team

Visualizations of Codebase Structure, Climate Data, Time Use Patterns, and Census StatsIt is Friday the 13th. But don’t worry about the irrational! Check out the four really cool data visualization projects we have discovered around the web these days and you will be fine, entertained, and inspired.

Today on DataViz Weekly:

  • Codebase visualization in packed bubble charts — GitHub OCTO
  • Climate change impacts through 2099 — Climate Impact Lab
  • Shifts in U.S. time use patterns during the pandemic — Nathan Yau
  • 50 years of social change in England and Wales — ONS

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Yarra Hills Secondary College Uses AnyChart to Visualize Student Progress on Digital Data Wall

August 10th, 2021 by AnyChart Team

Official logo of Yarra Hills Secondary College using AnyChart to visualize student progress on Digital Data WallLeading the enterprise data visualization market, AnyChart is also widely used by not-for-profit organizations in sectors such as education. Stephen Blackwell from Yarra Hills Secondary College (Australia) has recently shown us another great example of such an application.

Data walls have become a widespread practice in schools across the globe, letting teachers track and benchmark student progress to create effective learning environment. In many cases, they are just physical. For Yarra Hills, Stephen created a digital one that supercharges the overview with the help of well-thought-out visualizations powered by our JavaScript charting library.

Stephen kindly agreed to tell us about his Digital Data Wall project and how AnyChart is implemented. Read our fresh interview below. As you can imagine the original web app is for internal use only, but if you want to take a glance here is a copy with de-identified student data (password anychArt) and this is an example of an individual student profile. (Stack: PHP/MySQL.)

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Tokyo Olympics Medal Trackers — DataViz Weekly

August 6th, 2021 by AnyChart Team

The best Tokyo Olympics medal trackers selected for DataViz WeeklyDelayed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and commonly referred to simply as Tokyo 2020 have been underway for two weeks and are already coming to a close, with under 50 medal sets yet to be distributed over the remaining two days.

In this special edition of DataViz Weekly, we are happy to showcase four wonderful Olympic medal trackers providing an insightful view of medal counts and country standings with the help of telling visualizations — from Bloomberg News, The New York Times’s The Upshot, FiveThirtyEight, and Axios.

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