Data Visualizations

Examples of charts used to tell stories from data

Plotly

Plotly is an open-source tool that helps you build (and host) interactive java charts

Plotly

Colorado Ranges

A Plotly (in R) bar chart with jitters showing mountain elevations in each mountain range

Code here: kaggle.com/mikeshout


Plotly

IKEA Furniture

IKEA data – using k-means to group furniture by dimensions (width, height, depth) and explore the relationship between price and size. 

Code here: https://t.co/X59UYQx3yn

#tidytuesday

A weekly data project for practising data visualization skills in the R4DS community on twitter

TidyTuesday

Ultramarathons

Highlighting races where women were faster than men (average finish times) 

Code here: https://git.io/JiN3T


TidyTuesday

Salary Survey

Checking out average salary differences between men and women in the
@AskAManager survey data 

Code here: https://git.io/JsPK7


tidtytuesday

Brazil Deforestation

A pareto chart rotated ninety degrees to show that nearly 85% of Brazil’s deforestation is due to three man-driven activities

Code here: https://git.io/JYAan


Kaggle

Kaggle is a web-based data-science environment where you can access/deploy data and write/run code for machine learning

Kaggle

Colorado Fourteeners

How polar charts (aka radar chart or spider diagram) can help visualize different characteristics of similar observations

Code here: kaggle.com/mikeshout

Tools

My favorite data visualization tools

Twitter

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