August 26th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
Ready to see some wonderful data visualizations? DataViz Weekly is here as always on Friday! Check out these awesome new ones:
- Extreme weather attribution to human-caused climate change — Carbon Brief
- River discharge anomaly in Europe — Dominic Royé
- Air pollution emissions by country since 1750 — Our World in Data
- Connections in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — Tristan Guillevin
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August 19th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
We continue to curate roundups of our favorite data graphics we see each week. Keep reading this new DataViz Weekly to check out four recent stories with cool visualizations that are totally worth a look!
- European gas storage levels — Reuters
- EV charging along popular American roads — Bloomberg
- Serena Williams’s career in tennis — The New York Times
- Perilous heat waves in the U.S. by 2053 — The Washington Post
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August 15th, 2022 by Shachee Swadia
Have you heard of a mosaic plot? It is a very interesting chart type designed to facilitate exploring relationships between variables. Mosaic plots (also known as mosaic charts) visualize data in rectangular tiles whose width encodes one variable and height the other.
If you’d like to learn how to create such an elegant diagram with ease, follow me as I will show you the ropes right now! Along this tutorial, I will be building an interactive mosaic plot of social media adoption in the United States by age group and year, using JavaScript and explaining every step in detail.
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August 12th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
Visualizing data is an excellent way to quickly see patterns and trends hidden in it. In the DataViz Weekly series, we illuminate great fresh examples to illustrate how that works in practice. This time, we invite you to check out the following:
- 73 years of Formula One history — ATLO by Átlátszó
- Indicators of an economic recession in the U.S. — The Washington Post
- Migration patterns of young adults in the U.S. — Policy Impacts, U.S. Census Bureau, Opportunity Insights, Darkhorse Analytics
- Effects of rising temperatures outside on our daily lives — El País
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August 5th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
We’ve seen a lot of good new visualizations over the last week. Here are four projects with the best ones, amazing illustrations of how data can (and should) be brought to life with the right graphics. Featured today on DataViz Weekly:
- Five-hour train ride destinations in Europe — Benjamin Td
- Scotland’s NHS waiting times — DC Thomson
- Cool spots inside sweltering cities — Bloomberg Green
- Friendships between poor and rich as a factor of economic mobility — The Upshot
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August 4th, 2022 by Shachee Swadia
A timeline chart is an excellent way to represent important events and periods in chronological order. Now, let me teach you how to easily create an elegant interactive visualization like that using JavaScript!
To make this tutorial both helpful and entertaining, I decided to take real data. Join me as I visualize the life of Elon Musk in a JS timeline chart step by step, focusing on the most important events in his career as an entrepreneur and investor.
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July 29th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
It’s time to check out some awesome new graphs and maps! In this DataViz Weekly roundup, we are glad to put a spotlight on the following great data visualization works:
- Birthplaces of notable people worldwide — Topi Tjukanov
- Global COVID-19 vaccine inequality — The Guardian
- New congressional district boundaries — CNN
- Post-disaster displacements in America — The New York Times
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July 22nd, 2022 by AnyChart Team
Welcome to DataViz Weekly! It’s where we let you know about the most interesting data visualization projects released out there just about now. Here’s what’s on DataViz Weekly today:
- Record high temperatures across France — Le Monde
- Five-month path to the military impasse in Ukraine — Reuters
- Ties among January 6 defendants and extremist organizations — FiveThirtyEight
- Bird species abundance — eBird
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July 15th, 2022 by AnyChart Team
Eager to see some great data visualizations? Your wait is over! DataViz Weekly is back to the AnyChart blog to make sure you have not missed these four new works as they are definitely worth checking out!
- Gun deaths in America — The Washington Post
- Health effects of climate change worldwide — Wellcome
- Economic success of the U.S. immigrants’ children — The New York Times Opinion
- Livestock vs human populations in the United States — Data Stuff
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July 15th, 2022 by Awan Shrestha
Connector maps are designed to be ideal for visualizing routes and other links between locations in geospatial data analysis. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to quickly create a compelling interactive one using JavaScript.
Step by step, we will be visualizing a route of the famous ancient Silk Road. We’ll start with the development of a basic JS connector map in four moves and then make a few tweaks to make it look awesome. Let’s start the voyage!
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