The most-read post of all time on our blog is Which country is the best? Dealing with ranking data. The data took on a new look with bump charts.
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A few weeks ago we had a heatwave and we were thinking if the hotter a place the poorer it is. We could collect data to test our hypothesis thanks to the recent advances in open data and scraping technologies.
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We love reading news but who’s got the time to read ALL articles? Luckily, the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone, GDELT for short, scrapes tons of news articles and other sources of information. And yes, you can access their data via an API or very convenient Python and R SDKs.
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Overpass API is an incredible data source. We used pydeck and Blender to visualize the frequency of various OSM features (aka categories) in Hungary.
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Visualizing text is neither easy, nor a straightforward task and often it is totally useless. Here, we try to give a visual summary of various texts and the question if any of the visualizations is useful left to the reader. Woody Allen’s bon mot, “I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” serves as our disclaimer here.
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Who has not ever wondered about the interplay between art and artificial intelligence? Here we share our thoughts on how art can help us to shed light on various aspects of scientific knowledge, how cognitive science serves as a bridge between art and science, and what the limitations of visualization techniques are.
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Language acquisition is one of the greatest mysteries of life. It takes only a few months to master one of the most complex phenomena in the world. Using the CHILDES database, we made an animated visualization of this process regarding English.
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