Moving Past Default Charts

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Um excelente tutorial para aprender a trabalhar com os parâmetros dos gráficos em R.

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By Nathan Yau
Customizing your charts doesn’t have to be a time-intensive process. With just a teeny bit more effort, you can get something that fits your needs.

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income rise hints at recovery

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Mais uma excelente representação gráfica interativa de um jornal on-line.

By Ted Mellnik and Lazaro Gamio, Published: Sept. 18, 2014

Although incomes are still lower than five years ago, most large metropolitan areas showed at least a tiny gain last year. The patterns suggest that while many regional economies may have turned a corner on the recession, incomes are making a slow advance toward 2009 levels. These charts show data for median household incomes released on Thursday by the Census Bureau in its American Community Survey. Related story.

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PlotDevice: Draw with Python

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Uma biblioteca de funções em Pyton para construir visualizações de dados.

You’ve been able to visualize data with Python for a while, but Mac application PlotDevice from Christian Swinehart couples code and graphics more tightly. Write code on the right. Watch graphics change on the right.

The application gives you everything you need to start writing programs that draw to a virtual canvas. It features a text editor with syntax highlighting and tab completion plus a zoomable graphics viewer and a variety of export options.

PlotDevice’s simple but com­pre­hen­sive set of graphics commands will be familiar to users of similar graphics tools like NodeBox or Processing. And if you’re new to programming, you’ll find there’s nothing better than being able to see the results of your code as you learn to think like a computer.

Looks promising. Although when I downloaded it and tried to run it, nothing happened. I’m guessing there’s still compatibility issues to iron out at version 0.9.4. Hopefully that clears up soon. [via Waxy]

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How People in America Spend Their Day

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Um gráfico de áreas como forma de visualizar como os americanos ocupam o seu tempo ao longo do dia.

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From Shan Carter, Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy, and Amy Schoenfeld of The New York Times is this new interactive stacked time series on how different groups in America spend their day. The data itself comes from the American Time Use Survey. The interactive has a similar feel to Martin Wattenberg’s Baby Name Voyager, but it has the NYT pizazz that we’ve all come to know and love.

Explore time use by gender, race, age, education, and employment. View all activities (e.g. work, traveling) or select a specific action to drill down into the graph. From there, you’ll find time aggregates that you can compare against depending on what filter you’ve selected.

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Poverty and Race in America

Uma boa representação gráfica interactiva

Uma boa representação gráfica interactiva

Strategies to tackle poverty, inequality, and neighborhood distress must be informed by local data. The history, geography, and politics of individual metro regions all matter profoundly, and any serious policy strategy must be tailored to local realities.
To help take the policy conversation from the general to the specific, we offer a new mapping tool. It lets you explore changes from 1980 to 2010 in where poor people of different races and ethnicities lived, for every metropolitan region nationwide.
Understanding how the geography of poverty has changed can provide essential context for answering questions like: Are some poor neighborhoods isolated from the region’s job opportunities? What would it take to connect them? Where should family support services be targeted? Which neighborhoods should be prioritized for improvements in essential amenities and opportunities? How can poor people across the metro landscape be better connected to the services and opportunities they seek?
For metro regions to systematically reduce poverty and expand opportunity, local civic and political leaders, advocates, and practitioners should start by sitting down together to understand the evolving realities of poverty, race, and place in their communities. We hope our maps help catalyze these conversations.

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A World of Terror

Uma excelente visualização de dados interativa

Uma excelente visualização de dados interativa

Exploring the reach, frequency and impact of terrorism around the world

The data used in this tool comes from the Global Terrorism Database, the most comprehensive collection of terrorism data available.

GeographyThe 25 groups included here have been active in 73 countries on five continents. Of these, the country targeted by the most groups has been France: Al-Qa`ida, Basque Fatherland and Freedom, Hizballah, The IRA, and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The group with the greatest geographic spread is Hizballah, responsible for terrorism in 17 countries.
YearsOn average, these top 25 groups have been active almost 19 years (during this time frame), while all other groups have been active just over 2 years.
WoundedThe 25 groups listed here are responsible for 48% of all known wounded victims, with ISIS being responsible for the most wounded (10,585). However, Al-Qa`ida is more effective, wounding 230 per event on average.
KilledOf the total verified fatalities, over half (83,896, or 56%) are attributed to the 25 groups listed here. The greatest number of deaths by these groups, 6,857, happened in 2013.

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Using Open Source Technology in Higher Education

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Um blogue com muitos posts sobre a utilização do R

Using R for Basic Cross Tabulation Analysis: Part Three, Using the xtabs Function

Using R to Work with GSS Survey Data: Cross Tabulation Tables

R Tutorial: Using R to Work With Datasets From the NORC General Social Science Survey

How to Set Up SSH to Remotely Control Your Raspberry Pi

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What are you going to do with that degree?

Boa visualização sobre o q fazem os licenciados com os seus títulos.

Boa visualização sobre o q fazem os licenciados com os seus títulos.

Jobs by college major

This is a quick Sankey visualization of how college majors relate to professions, based on data from the American Community survey. On the left are the largest college majors; to the right are the most common professions.

To see broad fields like “Sciences” and “Humanities”, see the edited version of this page.

The width of each stream shows how many people with that major are in that field. (The color shows whether that’s more or fewer people than expected based on how big the major is: hover over to see just how many more it is.) The width of each stream shows how many people with that major are in that field. (The color shows whether that’s more or fewer people than expected based on how big the major is).

You surely see that the lines are too small to understand in most cases: to actually see what’s going on with a particular field or job, click on a box and the chart will filter down to just the people who either majored in the field, or ended up employed in the job. (Click on one of the connecting lines to see both at once.)

I have not developed this that far because I am not sure how useful it ultimately is: my basic goal was a quick way to see, for example, what jobs history majors ended up in. (Largest is lawyers, but also schoolteachers; what you would expect, but worth knowing.)

You might also like my visualization of changing college degrees over time.

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Tutorial: How to detect spurious correlations

Uso de métodos robustos para identiicar correlações espúrias

Uso de métodos robustos para identiicar correlações espúrias

Tutorial: How to detect spurious correlations, and how to find the real ones

Specifically designed in the context of big data in our research lab, the new and simple strong correlation synthetic metric proposed in this article should be used, whenever you want to check if there is a real association between two variables, especially in large-scale automated data science or machine learning projects. Use this new metric now, to avoid being accused of reckless data science and even being sued for wrongful analytic practice.

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Income inequality seen in satellite images from Google Earth

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Uso de proxis para identificar vizinhanças pobres

Researchers Pengyu Zhua and Yaoqi Zhang noted in their 2008 paper that “the demand for urban forests is elastic with respect to price and highly responsive to changes in income.” Poor neighborhoods tend to have fewer trees and the rate of forestry growth is slower than that of richer neighborhoods.

Tim De Chant of Per Square Mile wondered if this difference could be seen through satellite images in Google Earth. It turns out that you can see the distinct difference in a lot of places. Above, for example, shows two areas in Rio de Janeiro: Rocinha on the left and Zona Sul on the right. Notice the tree-lined streets versus the not so green.

De Chant notes:

It’s easy to see trees as a luxury when a city can barely keep its roads and sewers in working order, but that glosses over the many benefits urban trees provide. They shade houses in the summer, reducing cooling bills. They scrub the air of pollution, especially of the particulate variety, which in many poor neighborhoods is responsible for increased asthma rates and other health problems. They also reduce stress, which has its own health benefits. Large, established trees can even fight crime.

Okay, I don’t now about that last part about fighting crime. Without seeing the data, I think that sounds like a correlation more than anything else, but still. Trees. Good.

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