Category Data Visualization
Weekly Data Viz #9
Each Tuesday, Eurry Kim, a student in our class, picks one example of data visualization to share with us. Eurry writes: This past Thursday and Friday, I was able to volunteer at the Visualized Conference where I met and heard some interesting perspectives on data visualization. From Shan Carter (http://nyti.ms/XvM9BX) to the WNYC Data News Team (http://wny.cc/W28uBW), […]
Weekly Data Viz #8
Each Tuesday, Eurry Kim, a student in our class, picks one example of data visualization to share with us. This week is a little different. Eurry didn’t pick it- she created it! I asked if we could feature it. Eurry and Kaz Sakamoto, also a student in the class, submitted a visualization to the Hubway Challenge. Here is their submission. You can view the public leaderboard here, and vote for Kaz and Eurry’s submission! I’m excited to see students in our class collaborating in this way. Below I asked them to describe their collaborative process:
http://hubwaydatachallenge.org/submission/56/
This was our first time working with each other. Up until then, […]
Weekly Data Viz #7
Each Tuesday, Eurry Kim, a student in our class, will pick one example of data visualization to share with us. Eurry writes in an email titled “Viz for the Stormy Week”: In light of Sandy, I was thinking about how crises pull people together and make them forget about petty differences — particularly political differences. Ha, […]
Week 8: Data Visualization, Square, Fraud Detection
Each week Cathy O’Neil blogs about the class. Cross-posted from mathbabe.org. This week in Rachel Schutt’s Columbia Data Science course we had two excellent guest speakers. The first speaker of the night was Mark Hansen, who recently came from UCLA via the New York Times to Columbia with a joint appointment in journalism and statistics. […]
Weekly Data Viz #6
Each Tuesday, Eurry Kim, a student in our class, will pick one example of data visualization to share with us. Eurry writes: This week’s theme: Data Art != Data Visualization This piece came across my Twitter feed: http://www.cjr.org/between_the_spreadsheets/more_than_a_photograph.php In no uncertain terms, I was annoyed to see this visualization tweeted by the Columbia Journalism Review. This […]
Data Science & Urban Planning
Here I describe some inklings of ideas around Data Science & urban planning based on recent conversations* I’ve had, and casual reading I’ve been doing. I will touch on Las Vegas, Brooklyn, the Hubway visualization competition, and FourSquare. Metric: Return on Community This weekend’s NYT magazine has an article by Timothy Pratt: “‘If You Fix […]
Weekly Data Viz #5
Each Tuesday, Eurry Kim, a student in our class, will pick one example of data visualization to share with us. Eurry writes: I have a Sankey Diagram from ProPublica this week! What’s more is that the authors wrote about how they made it! You’ll see that they employed the NYT API to obtain the data (we can […]
