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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Big data: The next frontier for innovation

Um relatório com grande impacto qdo foi publicado

Um relatório com grande impacto qdo foi publicado

The amount of data in our world has been exploding, and analyzing large data sets—so-called big data—will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus, according to research by MGI and McKinsey’s Business Technology Office. Leaders in every sector will have to grapple with the implications of big data, not just a few data-oriented managers. The increasing volume and detail of information captured by enterprises, the rise of multimedia, social media, and the Internet of Things will fuel exponential growth in data for the foreseeable future.

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Why use R? Five reasons

Bom blogue, as principais razões para usar R

Bom blogue, as principais razões para usar R

Why use R? Five reasons.

In this post I will go through 5 reasons: zero cost, crazy popularity, awesome power, dazzling flexibility, and mind-blowing support. I believe R is the best statistical programming language to learn. As a blogger who has contributed over 150 posts in Stata and over 100 in R I have extensive experience with both a proprietary statistical programming language as well as the open source alternative.  In my graduate career I have also had the opportunity to experiment with the proprietary software SPSS, SAS, Mathematica, as well as MPlus.

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9 “must read” articles on Big Data

Textos para big data

Textos para big data

My selection

(*) I disagree with this Harvard Business Review author. Senior data scientists work on high level data from various sources, use automated processes for EDA (exploratory analysis) and spend little to no time in tedious, routine, mundane tasks (less than 5% of my time, in my case). I also use robust techniques that work well on relatively dirty data, and … I create and design the data myself in many cases.

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portal smart datacollective.com

Um portal de notícias sobre ciencia dos dados, big data, analytics

Um portal de notícias sobre ciencia dos dados, big data, analytics

SmartData Collective, an online community moderated by Social Media Today, provides enterprise leaders access to the latest trends in Business Intelligence and Data Management. Our innovative model serves as a platform for recognized, global experts to share their insights through peer contributions, custom content publishing and alignment with industry leaders. SmartData Collective is a key resource for executives who need to make informed data management decisions.

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Useful Videos on Information Visualization

Bons videos sobre visualização de dados

Bons videos sobre visualização de dados

Noah Iliinsky – Data Visualizations Done Wrong – A Beautiful Collection of Stories and Tips for Success.

The Four Pillars of Data Visualization

Designing Data Visualizations with Noah Iliinsky

Best Practices for Data Visualization

Designing Data Visualizatins

Seeing the Story in the Data and Learning to Effectively Communicate – Inspired by Stephen Few Principles, Visualization Guru

David McCandless: “The beauty of data visualization” – Data Detective Telling Stories From Visualization of Information

This also has a nice quiz about visualization principles.

As I collect more, I will consolidate this list.

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Data Intelligence and Analytics Resources

Excelentes textos sobre ciencia dos dados e big data

Excelentes textos sobre ciencia dos dados e big data

3. Big Data

4. Visualization

5. Best and Worst of Data Science

6. New Analytics Start-up Ideas

7. Rants about Healthcare, Education, etc.

8. Career Stuff, Training, Salary Surveys

9. Miscellaneous

10. DSC Webinar Series – with video access

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17 short tutorials all data scientists should read

Excelentes textos fundamentais para cientistas dos dados

Excelentes textos fundamentais para cientistas dos dados

Here’s the list:

Related linkThe Data Science Toolkit

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How many statisticians does it take to split a bill?

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Bom blogue, bem disposto aborda diferenças entre estatística e ML

Bom blogue, bem disposto aborda diferenças entre estatística e ML

Some thoughts on the Fall term, now that Spring is well under way [edit: added a few more points]:

  • RMarkdown and knitr are amazing. When I next teach a course using R, my students will be turning in homeworks using these tools: The output immediately shows whether the code runs and what its results are. This is much better than students copying and pasting possibly-broken code and unconnected output into a text file or (gasp) Word document.
  • I’m glad my cohort socializes outside the office, taking each other out for birthday lunches or going to see a Pirates game. Some of the older PhD students are so focused on their thesis work that they don’t take time for a social break, and I’d like to avoid getting stuck in that rut.
    However! Our lunches always lead us back to the age old question: How many statisticians does it take to split a bill? Answer: too long. I threw together a Shiny app, DinneR, to help us answer this question.

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