Tag: analytics

Beer: Finding your favorite that you didn’t know about!

Data analysis can be used for many things … how about finding other beers you might like, so you don’t keep drinking the same old brand every time? Hang on tight – I think we’re about to make a beer run! I recently read an interesting article on the Flowingdata website, […]

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Graphs: Comparing R, Excel, Tableau, SPSS, Matlab, JS, Python, and SAS

Are you a visualization & graphing expert? Can you identify which tool (R, Excel, Tableau, SPSS, Matlab, JS, Python, or SAS) was used to create each of these graphs? No cheating! I recently read Tim Matteson’s blog where he presented 18 graphs, and had his readers try to guess which […]

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Where is this Dakota Access Pipeline they’re protesting?

You’ve probably seen dramatic pictures in the news lately about the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline – Native Americans versus bulldozers, protesters and tipis in a blizzard, and things like that. But do you really know much about this pipeline? For example, where will it go, and where have the […]

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Is the Moon really 1/4 the size of the Earth?

Are you ready for the supermoon on December 14? This will actually be the 3rd supermoon in 2016! With these big-looking full moons we’re having this year, I got to wondering exactly how big is the moon compared to Earth? This seems like a good question to answer with some […]

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Why SAS maps are better than Wikipedia svg maps!

Parents are always proud of their kids, and think their kids are better than all the other kids. I guess it might be a little bit that way with mapping software … but I really do think I’ve got a pretty compelling example to show that SAS maps are better […]

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My top 10 graph blog posts of 2016!

When I was a kid, I always looked forward to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 song countdown at the end of the year. Did I listen to check whether my favorite songs had made the list, or to critique how well the people making the list had done in picking the ‘right’ […]

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Forecasting your next breakup!

Has anyone ever broken up with you, and left you thinking “Wow, I didn’t see that coming!” In hindsight, maybe you could have seen it coming. At least from a statistical perspective. Let’s dive into this topic with some lighthearted discussion, and plot some Facebook data… When it comes to […]

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How to turn your graphs up to 11

If you consider yourself as a visualization expert, you strive to create graphs that set you apart from the data analysts and statisticians. Graphs that merely plot the data in a clear/concise manner aren’t enough for you. You want your graphs to also be intuitive, easy to read, and provide […]

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