Raw Data Studies

Raw Data Studies

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  • Unmixing Bob Ross

    Unmixing Bob Ross

    Lightweight exploration of Bob Ross paint colors for a data visualization challenge, including my own happy accident.

    February 25, 2023
  • Exploring Radio Paradise playlist data

    Exploring Radio Paradise playlist data

    I finally have an application for all the Radio Paradise playlist data I’ve been collecting for year: detecting their 2022 format refresh.

    January 21, 2023
  • Disaggregating Google Trends data

    Disaggregating Google Trends data

    Going from monthly to daily trends data to question the claim of a “move to Canada” spike after the 2020 Biden election.

    January 8, 2023
  • Climate assessment color gradients

    Climate assessment color gradients

    How many ways can you draw a color gradient chart legend? I found plenty in the National Climate Assessment reports.

    January 7, 2023
  • Constrained jitter

    Constrained jitter

    A brief review of dot plot jitter methods and a study of one example from a Nature article.

    October 29, 2022
  • Scented candle reviews

    Scented candle reviews

    I collected new data to take a closer look at the scented-candle/Covid19 relationship and found a new connection not related to smell.

    July 12, 2022
  • Quordle/Octordle starting triplets

    Quordle/Octordle starting triplets

    Four ways to evaluate starting Quordle word triplets using partition counting and simulation.

    June 26, 2022
  • All but significant trends

    All but significant trends

    Fitted lines are useful as first order approximations, but it’s often useful to look a little deeper. In the process of exploring a paper’s time trends, I found an unexpected data processing issue.

    April 18, 2022
  • Warming stripes by latitude

    Warming stripes by latitude

    Trying to adapt the warming stripes graphic with latitude bands, with a detour to import NetCDF data on an equally-spaced global grid.

    February 27, 2022
  • Deep Wordle

    Deep Wordle

    Like many programmers, I’ve had fun writing code to explore optimal guessing strategies for the online game Wordle. How many guesses are needed for any starting word?

    January 22, 2022
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Raw Data Studies

by Xan Gregg

 

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