Histograms to View Oodles of Doodles from Google

In this talk, Jim Vallandingham will take us through his recent exploration of a newly released drawing dataset from Google. We will look at some amazing prior work from other visualizers and then dive into the beauty and the power of the humble histogram.

Transcript

1. Hi! I’m Jim Vallandingham
3. Bocoup
4. Zymergen
5. Histograms to View Oodles of Doodles from Google
6. This is a talk about a toy project
7. This is a talk about Visualization
8. Histograms!
9. But first, the data
12. Google Released the Dataset!
13. 50+ Million Doodles
15. 345 Categories
17. Prior Art
18. Letter Collages Deborah Schmidt
19. Letter Collages Deborah Schmidt
20. Forma Fluens “Flowing Form”
21. Forma Fluens “Flowing Form”
22. Yannick Assogba
23. Quartz Media
24. Example JSON
25. Example JSON
26. –Jim Vallandingham Always visualize the obvious first. Jim’s Farcical Visualization Protip #1
27. –Jim Vallandingham Always tweet the obvious first. Jim’s Farcical Visualization Protip #1.1
28. (demo)
29. –Jim Vallandingham Always include an easter egg. Jim’s Farcical Visualization Protip #2
30. Histograms!
31. A way to show distributions
32. Flowing Data
33. Flowing Data
34. Flowing Data*
35. Five Thirty Eight Barchart (Not a histogram)
36. NYT Upshot
37. NYT Upshot
38. The Pudding
39. First Histogram Karl Pearson - 1895
40. Flight of the bumble bee Pianogram
41. Via Velox
42. LA Times
43. Histogram Troubles
44. Amelia McNamara Bin Width
45. Amelia McNamara Bin Offset
46. The Case of the Bumpy Banana
57. –Jim Vallandingham Always “examine” other people's code Jim’s Farcical Visualization Protip #3
58. Alternatives
59. Kernel Density Plots
60. NYT
61. Darkhorse Analytics
62. Swarm plots
63. (demo)
64. Joy plots
65. James Cheshire
66. ggjoy
68. –Jim Vallandingham Jump on the next big visualization trend as fast as you can. Jim’s Farcical Visualization Protip #4
69. Thanks! vallandingham.me @vlandham Jim Vallandingham