580: quantum of sollazzo
#580: quantum of sollazzo – 22 October 2024
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✨ Topical
Topi Tjukanov launches 30 day map challenge 2025
As per usual tradition, geospatial visualization guru Topi Tjukanov has launched the 2025 edition of his much appreciated 30-day map challenge. Do it, and keep an eye on it.
How many voters have a party affiliation?
USAFacts: "Of registered voters, 47% have declared a party affiliation. As of September 2024, 36 million voters are registered Republicans and 45.1 million are registered Democrats."
What are the leading causes of death in the US?
Another USAFacts article, mostly because of the mind-boggling chart below.
All the Paris Olympics medals won by South-East Europe, in data
"Water polo, combat sports, and men tended to dominate. But the data on the Paris Olympics also indicates some curious cases, from the Romanian female rowing team to Turkey's female athletes, as well as stories of migration."
Interesting chart below, with Catalunya and Ile-de-France being amazing outliers.
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🛠️📖 Tools & Tutorials
UpSet plots
I might have heard of them before, then forgot but this LinkedIn post allowed me to rediscover this incredibly useful chart type that captures intersections. Here is also a D3 version in Observable.
🤯 Data thinking
Veridical Data Science
"Rather than simply being a toolbox of algorithms (which is how many people think of “data science”), veridical data science spans the entire data science life cycle (DSLC)."
📈Dataviz, Data Analysis, & Interactive
My first Weekly Chart… about what?!
Datawrapper's dataviz developer Erle Monfils: "I’m excited to share with you my first Weekly Chart, on a topic you might relate to: decision fatigue."
Into the Death Zone
Ok, let me link a second Datawrapper Weekly Chart! This time, developer Linus Aarnio looks at the dangers of Mount Everest.
An n-ball Between n-balls
"There is a geometric thought experiment that is often used to demonstrate the counterintuitive shape of high-dimensional phenomena. This article is an interactive visual journey into the construct in the thought experiment, and the mathematics behind it."
Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the U.S.A.
The Pudding: "Help us document the stories behind the 59,507 outdoor courts in America."
Also take a look at this (unrelated) Pudding article about baseball, though.
🤖 AI
My commons roller coaster / 2024-10-10
Luis Villa's regular newsletter/blog, last week, opened with this intriguing sentence: "This week an open data set won the Nobel Prize in chemistry".
Machines of Loving Grace
Dario Amodei (Anthropic's CEO): "How AI Could Transform the World for the Better".
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