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Hi! I’m Jim Vallandingham
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Bocoup
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Zymergen
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Histograms to View Oodles of Doodles from Google
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This is a talk about a toy project
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This is a talk about Visualization
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Histograms!
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But first, the data
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Google Released the Dataset!
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50+ Million Doodles
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345 Categories
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Prior Art
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Letter Collages Deborah Schmidt
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Letter Collages Deborah Schmidt
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Forma Fluens “Flowing Form”
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Forma Fluens “Flowing Form”
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Yannick Assogba
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Quartz Media
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Example JSON
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Example JSON
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–Jim Vallandingham Always visualize the obvious first. Jim’s Farcical Visualization Protip #1
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–Jim Vallandingham Always tweet the obvious first. Jim’s Farcical Visualization Protip #1.1
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(demo)
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–Jim Vallandingham Always include an easter egg. Jim’s Farcical Visualization Protip #2
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Histograms!
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A way to show distributions
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Flowing Data
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Flowing Data
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Flowing Data*
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Five Thirty Eight Barchart (Not a histogram)
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NYT Upshot
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NYT Upshot
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The Pudding
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First Histogram Karl Pearson - 1895
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Flight of the bumble bee Pianogram
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Via Velox
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LA Times
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Histogram Troubles
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Amelia McNamara Bin Width
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Amelia McNamara Bin Offset
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The Case of the Bumpy Banana
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–Jim Vallandingham Always “examine” other people's code Jim’s Farcical Visualization Protip #3
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Alternatives
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Kernel Density Plots
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NYT
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Darkhorse Analytics
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Swarm plots
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Joy plots
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James Cheshire
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ggjoy
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–Jim Vallandingham Jump on the next big visualization trend as fast as you can. Jim’s Farcical Visualization Protip #4
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Thanks! vallandingham.me @vlandham Jim Vallandingham