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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Excellent New Visualizations on Vaccination Rates, Air Temperatures, Unemployment Benefits, Political Leanings — DataViz Weekly
December 10th, 2021 by AnyChart Team
If you love good data visualizations as much as we do, come join us in reviewing some of the most interesting ones we’ve recently come across, in the new issue of DataViz Weekly!
- Global inequality in COVID-19 vaccine supply and demand — The New York Times
- U.S. heat data maps — Erin Davis
- Racial disparity in pandemic unemployment benefits in Georgia — Bloomberg
- Political progressiveness across San Francisco’s neighborhoods — The San Francisco Chronicle
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Powerful Visual Storytelling Examples — DataViz Weekly
December 3rd, 2021 by AnyChart Team
For this DataViz Weekly, we have curated a collection of wonderful new visual storytelling examples from around the web. Take a look through and check them out!
- Rapid urban growth in Africa — The Washington Post
- Maritime activities in the North Sea — TU Delft
- All provisions of the Build Back Better Act — The Upshot
- Climate pledges after COP26 — The Guardian
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Analyzing Population Shifts, Box Office, Heat Exposure, Daily Routines — DataViz Weekly
November 26th, 2021 by AnyChart Team
It is much easier to analyze large amounts of data when they are represented using the right visualization techniques. We are ready to show you another four vivid examples! Today on DataViz Weekly:
- Population and racial changes in the United States — Pitch Interactive & Census 2020 Data Co-op
- Box office for cinema-exclusive and simultaneous release movies — FT
- Global extreme urban heat exposure — AP News
- Most common daily time uses — Nathan Yau
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