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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