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Kinda off topic but I absolutely hate that animation style. Not so much the style itself, but the fact that every new trendy science/history YouTube channel whose videos are basically rewritten Wikipedia pages with NordVPN ads seems to use it.

The worst part about this to me is that the ring is composed of two distinct classes of things that are therefore mutually exclusive. In my experience, the entire point of this type of plot is to compare movement between things of one class, such as emigration/immigration. If it's two classes of things like this, where one class only ever "gives" to the other class (and vice versa), you're much better off just making it horizontal and using a Sankey-type diagram.

Edit: I threw together a Sankey Diagram of this data using the Google Charts API. The charts API doesn't seem to support different colors unfortunately, but it gives an idea of what this kind of thing should look like. You can hover over any country, nobel type, or connection to highlight it.

Explanation in this article: https://365datascience.com/data-science-vs-ml-vs-data-analytics/

But if you need an entire article to explain a dataviz (or a flow chart venn diagram?), your viz has failed.

Optimizing neural network requires a ton of trial and error. Which means time and more importantly, costly computing power. They're offering a solution that visualises the various way a neural network performs according to its configuration so you can pick the figurations that are most efficient, or fit your purpose best.

There's a short booklet published by MIT Press that is a great starter on machine learning:
https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Press-Essential-Knowledge/dp/0262535432

Apparently 42 + 41 + 38 + 27 + 26 + 22 + 19 + 10 + 8 + 2 = Ridiculous

from https://www.ipe.com/reports/special-reports/securities-services/securities-services-blockchain-a-beginners-guide/10014058.article

and worse, some PhD used it in their preso... <sigh> https://www.slideshare.net/LaBlogga

Oh shit, it's OP! No offence intended, just not my cup of tea at all.

Of course data visualisations are meant to be of use, but the best ones are meant to be easily readable. I'm sure almost everyone that is into data vis know who Edward Tufte is, and at least respects his opinions, and this the complete opposite of the "less is more" or the "data to ink ratio".

>Distilling down a big chunk of data is not easy, and the onus often falls on the designer. Tufte laments that the &quot;lack of quantitative skills of professional artists&quot; is what makes designing a great data visualization difficult. The best designed visualizations exist as a symbiosis between smart quantification and beautiful and elegant design.

Ideally, you want to add as much information you can do your graphic, without obfuscating your main messages or limiting the impact that showing the major changes or differences does. Basically, I think your graphic here is too messy and hides whatever the main takeaway of the graphic actually is. Other than getting banned from /r/MapPorn, I'm not really sure what that even is! There is just way too much going on for it to have any real impact on the reader.

I'm sure we'll just disagree on this, which is fine, but that's my 2 cents on the subject.

The chart comes from this article. It is ugly, because it is very hard to compare so many slices in a pie chart and something went really wrong with the percentages.

But the article says so:

> While there are hundreds of small communities represented by this visualization, it’s clear they group into two major groups: on the left, pro-Gamergate. On the right, anti-Gamergate. In the middle, a handful of controversial people engaging both sides. And on the margins, a constellation of isolated people unrelated and disengaged.

> This network visualization is as good a metaphor as any for #Gamergate. Two massive, impenetrable hairballs of people that want little to do with one another, only listening to their side and firing volleys across the chasm.

I agree that the chart is too big and messy to stand on its own, but many things look silly if they're taken out of context. Embedded into an article as it originally was, it illustrates the author's point very well.

Personally, I don't like the scale for what you're describing. Typically, Red/Yellow/Green translates as Warning/Caution/Ok.

I would consider if you want a 3-color scale maybe a blue in the middle as a neutral, messing around with something close to this: http://paletton.com/#uid=54b1q0kqQhph3r0mfm4vMcnI57q

Yeah, the description was outdated. As you may have seen in the picture in OP from the Skype icon, it was just a screenshot to show OP what I was working on. Wasn't really the "final version."

Although I totally agree that the data is ugly (and it's a little more faithful to this subreddit's name: the data itself is ugly, not just the presentation.)

EDIT: Updated graph

&gt;Joseph Toomey is a career management consultant specializing in economic analysis, corporate finance, and global supply chain strategy. His work as a trusted advisor to some of the world’s most prominent corporate names in the oil and gas industry, oil field services, electric utility, chemicals manufacturing, natural resources, and transportation industries in dozens of countries all over the world affords him a solid perspective in energy policy.

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https://www.amazon.com/Unworthy-Future-Joseph-Toomey/dp/1480808911

If you have a favorite chess game and can memorize three moves of it...

Nf3dxc4,Qxc4b6,h4Bb7 (from this game, moves 7 to 9). I don't know if cracking algorithms have dedicated searches for chess notation.

It has prime numbers, but that requirement was a joke anyway.

I crossposted this last night during a fit of insomnia, and I wanted to follow up on a couple of things this morning:

-The shortened URL at the bottom goes to Mystery Patriot's website, which is a wordpress.com blog that was only active in October and November 2012

-Mystery Patriot claims to be "for the purpose of developing high-quality infographics" (lol)

-The shortened URL also shows that this figure was originally made as a comparison between Obama and Reagan, and someone clobbered that image into this one with Trump

-I don't really have a good idea of what Russian trollbots look like on Reddit, since the average Reddit user is already a troll by definition. But I can spot Russian bots on Twitter/Facebook, and OP's profile looks exactly how I would expect a Russian bot to look like on Reddit

-Lastly, setting misleading data presentation aside, I didn't know it was possible to make an uglier graph than this. I made prettier graphs by hand in the fourth grade. WTF. Honestly, I always felt that nothing could be worse than Excel for making graphs, but this post demonstrates that Excel isn't even the worst program in MS Office for dataviz

No, its a real book. And a real academic.

Looking at iGen, it seems like some institutions use a lot of Twenge's research to pursue some sort of agenda. However it also seems that Twenge is extremely critical of late mil and most Zoomers due to mass communication.

If I didn't leave sociology for stats, I probably would have actually known this person due to my research work.

Ah uh anyway, what distrubs me is the "Research Says" instead of just quoting.

Nope not colour blind.

The colour on that diagram is Turquoise which is a mix of blue and green.

Some of the representations of the Spotify logo are actually pretty close to Turquoise.

This one for example

https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/6214523/logo_spotify_icon