I’ve been getting a huge uptick in views of my Slopegraphs in Python post and I think it’s due to @edwardtufte’s recent slopegraph contest announcement. The original Python code is crufty and a mess mostly due to the intermittent attention to it, wanting to reduce dependencies and hacking vs programming. I’ve been wanting to do… Continue reading
Post Category → Charts & Graphs
Mapping Power Outages In Maine With R
UPDATE: A Shiny (dynamic) version of this is now available. We had yet-another power outage this morning due to the weird weather patterns of the week and it was the final catalyst I needed to crank out some R code to map the affected counties. Central Maine Power provides an outage portal where folks can… Continue reading
Alternative to Grouped Bar Charts in R
The #spiffy @dseverski gave me this posit the other day: Hey, @hrbrmstr, doughnut chart aside, how would you approach the first graph at http://t.co/zjHoHRVOeo? Bump chart? Trend line? Leave as is? — David F. Severski (@dseverski) October 25, 2013 and, I obliged shortly thereafter, but figured I’d toss a post up on the blog before… Continue reading
Visualizing “ObamaCare-related” Job Cuts
UPDATE: Added some extra visualization elements since this post went live. New select menu and hover text for individual job impact detail lines in the table. I was reviewing RSS feeds when I came across this story about “ObamaCare Employer Mandate: A List Of Cuts To Work Hours, Jobs” over on Investors.com. Efficacy of the… Continue reading
Re-imagining @panda_security’s Q1 2013 Report Pie Charts
We infosec folk eat up industry reports and most of us have no doubt already gobbled up @panda_security’s recently released [Q1 2013 Report](http://press.pandasecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/PandaLabs-Quaterly-Report.pdf) [PDF]. It’s a good read (so go ahead and read it, we’ll still be here!) and I was really happy to see a nicely stylized chart in the early pages: However, I… Continue reading
Secure360 (@Secure360) Data Analysis & Visualization Talk Resources #Sec360
Many thanks to all who attended the talk @jayjacobs & I gave at @Secure360 on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. As promised, here are the [slides](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43553/Secure360-2013.pdf). We’ve enumerated quite a bit of non-slide-but-in-presentation information that we wanted to aggregate into a blog post so you can vi[sz] along at home. If you need more of a… Continue reading
Slopegraph As A Service
@adammontville [posited](http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/it-security-data-protection/quick-thoughts-on-verizons-dbir-and-20-critical-security-control-mappings/) that Figure 15 from this year’s [DBIR](http://www.verizonenterprise.com/DBIR/2013/) could use some slopegraph love. As I am not one to back down from a reasonable challenge, I obliged. Here’s the original chart (produced by @jayjacobs): and, here’s a _very_ _quick_ slopegraph version of it: You can click on both/either for a larger version. If I… Continue reading
SOURCE Boston (@SOURCEConf) Data Analysis & Visualization Talk Resources #srcbos13
Many thanks to all who attended the talk @jayjacobs & I gave at @SOURCEconf on Thursday, April 18, 2013. As promised, here are the [slides](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43553/SOURCE-Boston-2013.pdf) which should be much less washed out than the projector version :-) We’ve enumerated quite a bit of non-slide-but-in-presentation information that we wanted to aggregate into a blog post so… Continue reading