RT @arranarranarran@twitter.com
Please join us for the virtual launch of Data Visualization In Society, an open access book edited by Martin Engebretsen and Helen Kennedy, and published by Amsterdam University Press. The launch will take place online on Wednesday 6th May at 4pm UK time. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-visualization-in-society-virtual-book-launch-tickets-103336759028
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/arranarranarran/status/1255489742042521607
I've really enjoyed lurking on the Future of Coding slack (ever since discovering the FoC Podcast over the summer). I feel like an interloper on the conversation, but when there was a need/request for better data viz, I spent an evening trying to wrangle data with javascript: https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/what-future-of-coding-topics-interest-you-most
Observable's new dataflow visualizer is so rad!
https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/introducing-visual-dataflow
I made a janky simulation inspired by Harry Stevens's awesome Washington Post piece.
https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/bouncing-balls-not-a-model-for-virus-transmission
RT @DataVizSociety@twitter.com
#DataVisualization can help us make sense of and teach about the coronavirus, but the stakes are high. @abmakulec@twitter.com has 10 considerations to help you #VizResponsibly:
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DataVizSociety/status/1237803279486275585
Work ↓ http://feed.grantcuster.com/post/20200226T162619188Z I wrote about the trade-offs involved in using Vim-style navigation for the https://constraint.systems projects. from https://scrawl.grantcuster.com/2020-057-42.html
I really enjoyed that Molly Young piece on tech garbage language, but also people who complain about "learnings" annoy me more than people who use "learnings". https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.html
"The meaningful threat of garbage language — the reason it is not just annoying but malevolent — is that it confirms delusion as an asset in the workplace."
Molly Young on corporate garbage language:
https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.html
Haven't tried it, but Siuba looks like an exciting dplyr port for python. Might need to update my bs rationalizations for why I like R more than Python now. https://siuba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
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