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Do look away for insights
A small study on the usefulness of breaking a smooth fitted curve plus an interesting side discovery.
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Unmixing Bob Ross
Lightweight exploration of Bob Ross paint colors for a data visualization challenge, including my own happy accident.
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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.
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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.
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Climate assessment color gradients
How many ways can you draw a color gradient chart legend? I found plenty in the National Climate Assessment reports.
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Constrained jitter
A brief review of dot plot jitter methods and a study of one example from a Nature article.
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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.
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Quordle/Octordle starting triplets
Four ways to evaluate starting Quordle word triplets using partition counting and simulation.
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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.
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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.