What's everyone working on?
@scott I've been trying to create visualisation based articles that are friendlier (not off putting) to people that are not familiar with visualisations and charts.
Was inspired by a conversation about an academic who regardless of the audience introduces charts via a slide (and explaination) of the x axis, then the y, then a single data point and finally the chart.
So I'm trying to apply that approach for a news website - and quite enjoying the challenge.
@vizowl That sounds like a really interesting idea — I hope you'll be able to share once it's public. :)
@scott I actually published the first attempt last week 😀 https://insights.nzherald.co.nz/article/2018-budget-compared/
It was for the NZ budget and was published on a deadline - so not quite as polished as I wanted ... But I'd be very keen for some feedback.
@vizowl looks super nice! I like the clean bars and loading transitions. I'm dealing with a similar issue at work at the moment, however, where there is a need to show absolute values for comparison (say prior year compared to this year) but also the ratio between the two (that is, % change). In your piece, it looks like alll the bars just get longer, so the story is "new budget is bigger!" But would it help to show by how much? That is, the % change? That could be revealing, esp by category.
@scott I have this up on my wall to make sure I realize that dashboards can get out of hand. Also, it is funny. Unfortunately the web preview doesn't show how it generates different boards every 5 minutes.
https://www.electricobjects.com/artists/javier-arce/artworks/xDxD
@ted Wow, I LOVE that! Combat information overload with useless information overload, taken out of context. Brilliant and beautiful. :)
@scott I'm a beginner at the #visualization side, but I just sent a PI some #ViolinPlots to try and convince them of the usefulness.
(And to practice datavis in R)
@naga Oh fun! Well, good luck!
@scott Packing. 😅
@scott I'm one week into my new job. So: trying to get up to speed on a really complex industry I have no prior experience in, learning all the SQL schemas, and trying to develop some improved KPIs.
@alexwein okay well good luck! Love the vivid bars.
@scott interactive comparison of graphs that share vertex sets.
@RFon ooh fancy
@scott currently working on a microservice that don't have a frontend yet 😅
@sfeug sounds super fun :-)))))
@scott I'm working (when I find the time!) on a project about Neglected Tropical Diseases, similar to my endangered languages data essay from last month. The data is super-messy, so I haven't even started visualising yet, but it's a fascinating topic.
@duncangeere oh wow, sounds fascinating. I know nothing about that.
@scott doing internal gis stuff in my job, but excited to get into turf.js in my spare time and incorporate spatial analyis in web apps. I feel like there's so much potential there
@biskwikman I had to look up turf.js. Looks super cool!
@scott yeah, I'm an urban planner who does viz as a hobby and I think it could be very useful for communicating different future scenarios and planning research findings.
@scott Halfway several independent projects, which is fun and meaningful, diving into other tools and experimenting with graphs, but would also be great if I could welcome new clients :-)
@Sonja_Kuijpers Oh cool! Well, good to have a lot going on. :)
@scott I'm working on saying "no" to projects I shouldn't take 🙃
@francis a very important life skill!
I'll go first: dashboards, dashboards, dashboards!
The past few months have been my first true practice designing data dashboards. It turns out I really love the challenge of getting so many moving parts to work together in a meaningful, accessible way.