Alasdair Rae outlines the basics of visualizing basketball shot data with QGIS, an open-source software package typically used for geographic maps. Even if you’re not into basketball, sports data can be fun to poke at because it’s comprehensive and usually covers a good range of time and categories. Tags: Alasdair Rae, basketball, QGIS
I collect visualization tools and learning resources and then round them up at the end of each month. Here’s the good stuff for March. Become a member for access to this — plus tutorials, courses, and guides.
Satellite imagery on its own can be limited in what it can say without context. It’s photos from the sky, which is neat and technical, but then what? For Nightingale, Robert Simmon describes the many ways that journalists use satellite imagery to tell stories and layer meaning. Tags: Nightingale, Robert Simmon, satellite imagery, storytelling
This is a fun project by Jan Willem Tulp. Based on data from a cross-verified database of notable people, Tulp scrolls through history to show when these people enter and leave the world based on their age. Start in 3500 BC and scroll from there. Tags: history, Jan Willem Tulp, timeline
To gain a better understanding of how ChatGPT works under the hood, Santiago Ortiz repeatedly passed the prompt “Intelligence is” to the chatbot. Then he visualized the statistical paths to get to a response using a 3-D network. If you squint, the network kind of looks like a computer’s brain. Tags: AI, ChatGPT, Santiago Ortiz
Alec Singh added another dimension to Conway’s Game of Life for a pretty, mesmerizing animation. The z-axis is used to show positions over time. Tags: Alec Singh, Game of Life
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