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Reviewing Four New Exciting Data Visualizations — DataViz Weekly

March 25th, 2022 by AnyChart Team

Reviewing Four New Exciting Data Visualizations | DataViz WeeklyIf you are reading this, you (almost certainly) love good data graphics. Well, we won’t leave you hanging! Check out a new DataViz Weekly review of exciting data visualizations recently built by honored professionals.

  • Sunrise times with permanent daylight saving time in the U.S. — The Washington Post
  • Inequality between rich and poor people’s carbon emissions — Bloomberg
  • Gender-neutral baby names in America — Georgios Karamanis
  • 3D climate spiral for 1880–2021 — NASA

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Visualizing Gender, Cycling, Polling & Climate Data — DataViz Weekly

March 18th, 2022 by AnyChart Team

Visualizing Gender, Cycling, Polling, and Climate Data in DataViz WeeklyFriday is a lucky day for all fans of data visualization: DataViz Weekly is out! Join us as we look at some great examples of charts and maps published out there just recently.

  • World Bank Gender Data Portal — The World Bank
  • Cycling environment across France — FUB
  • French presidential election polls — Reuters
  • Ideal climate finder — Luke Champine

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Impressive New Data Graphics on Abortions, Homes, Names, Land — DataViz Weekly

March 11th, 2022 by AnyChart Team

Impressive New Data Graphics on Abortions, Homes, Names, Land, in DataViz WeeklyDataViz Weekly is here with another batch of impressive data graphics worth looking at and exploring! Today, we are eager to tell you about the following four new projects:

  • Burden of abortion across the United States — FiveThirtyEight
  • Real estate investor activity in the 40 major American cities in 2021 — The Washington Post
  • Historical popularity of baby names in the U.S. since the 1880s — Namerology
  • Australia land cover in detail — Geoscience Australia

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Most Interesting Visualizations to Check Out and Learn From — DataViz Weekly

March 4th, 2022 by AnyChart Team

Most Interesting Visualizations to Check Out and Learn From — DataViz WeeklyWe are glad to continue our DataViz Weekly blog feature where we curate some of the most interesting and topical visualizations from around the internet. Check out a new selection:

  • Russia–Ukraine conflict in maps — Lisa Charlotte Muth’s thread on Twitter
  • The world’s most popular languages — Al Jazeera
  • Dividing the U.S. by equal populations — Engaging Data
  • Lifestyle changes during COVID-19 lockdowns — The Guardian

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Beijing Olympics Medal Trackers — DataViz Weekly

February 25th, 2022 by AnyChart Team

Beijing Olympics Medal Trackers in DataViz WeeklyFollowing 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

Check Out These Great New Visual Data Stories | DataViz WeeklyEager 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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Recalling Most Awesome Recent Data Visualizations — DataViz Weekly

February 11th, 2022 by AnyChart Team

Recalling Most Awesome Recent Data Visualizations — DataViz WeeklyIt’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

Creating a Calendar Chart in JavaScript for a Website, Page or AppA 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

Best New Charts and Maps Not to Miss in DataViz WeeklyAre 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

Visualizing Data on Income, Volcano Eruption, Shopping, Climate — DataViz WeeklyContinuing 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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