546: quantum of sollazzo
#546: quantum of sollazzo – 2 January 2024
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✨ Topical
Down Underground
Designer Daniel Silva has created a series of London Underground maps that use their depth. A full PDF is available on the website and features maps like this one below.
I love that it captures both ground level and effective depth – Hampstead tube, for example, feels rather deep when you descend with the lift, but it is in fact way above sea level and buried within one of London's highest hills.
Which chart types did our users create in 2023?
Datawrapper's end of year review by Rose Mintzer-Sweeney.
How much money do Americans spend on holiday shopping?
"Americans spent 20% more on retail purchases in December 2022 than they did in December 2012."
🛠️📖 Tools & Tutorials
20% of EDA Plots Data Scientists Use 80% of the Time
"All the plots you need to know for EDA".
Pretty sure you know it, but EDA stands for Exploratory Data Analysis.
📈Dataviz, Data Analysis, & Interactive
How Big is YouTube?
"*I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”. A great deal of social media research focuses on finding unwanted behavior – mis/disinformation, hate speech – on platforms. This isn’t that hard to do: search for “white genocide” or “ivermectin” and count the results. Indeed, a lot of eye-catching research does just this – consider Avaaz’s August 2020 report about COVID misinformation. It reports 3.8 billion views of COVID misinfo in a year, which is a very big number. But it’s a numerator without a denominator – Facebook generates dozens or hundreds of views a day for each of its 3 billion users – 3.8 billion views is actually a very small number, contextualized with a denominator."
2nd City Zoning
Oh, this is pretty awesome: "2nd City Zoning is an interactive map that lets you find out how your building is zoned, learn where to locate your business, explore zoning patterns throughout the city. To make Chicago's zoning code digestible by humans, we took inspiration from one of our favorite games: Sim City 2000."
🤖 AI
Classifying Source Code using LLMs — What and How
"Sharing our experience at making LLM-based Source Code classifier".
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