Raw Data Studies

Raw Data Studies

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  • Graphic Review: SPLC Hate Report

    Graphic Review: SPLC Hate Report

    The Southern Policy Law Center has released its “The Year in Hate 2020” report (PDF) cataloguing hate group activity throughout the year. I review some of the graphs. Perhaps a closer look will raise our awareness of the content.

    April 19, 2021
  • Welcome to Raw Data Studies

    Welcome to Raw Data Studies

    Welcome to my new blog of my visual explorations of data! Some say raw data doesn’t exist, so you can think of “raw” as applying to the studies rather than the data if that helps.

    April 18, 2021
  • Until time is no more – bat charts

    Until time is no more – bat charts

    Can beauty exist without meaning? I examine a time-based stacked area chart where the time component is of dubious value. Plus a rare pie chart appearance and a quick scatterplot remake.

    April 2, 2021
  • Economic convergence extrapolation

    Economic convergence extrapolation

    A suspicious regression chart from an economics working paper leads to an exploration that finds an error in the original and some interesting alternate views.

    March 17, 2021
  • Scented candle ratings trends

    Scented candle ratings trends

    It started with three questions about a chart. Diving into candle review ratings turns into a case for the “don’t smooth a smoother” rule.

    March 2, 2021
  • Dog years, human years and DNA

    Dog years, human years and DNA

    A recent paper used DNA matching to support using a log function for dog-age to human-age conversions, but I’m not so sure the data supports it.

    February 25, 2021
  • Bar-mekko water use chart

    Bar-mekko water use chart

    Remaking a puzzling bar-mekko chart in several forms. When width and height both encode data values, so must area.

    February 11, 2021
  • Insurance pricing oddity

    Insurance pricing oddity

    A deeper dive into 93,000 insurance customer rate changes shared an analysis by The Markup. Making sense of suspicious residuals.

    February 2, 2021
  • Relationship chord diagram study

    Relationship chord diagram study

    I’ve never found chord diagrams very valuable, but I’m eager to learn where they are useful. Maybe I just need the right data.

    January 23, 2021
  • Crossword solving times

    Crossword solving times

    I’ve been doing crossword puzzles on my iPad over breakfast (usually oatmeal) for the past few years. Here are some views of the varying daily difficulties of New York Times crosswords.

    January 19, 2021
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Raw Data Studies

by Xan Gregg

 

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