Category: Analytics

Analytics

Center the map on the country you want

Speaking of maps centered on specific countries, Engaging Data made an interactive map that lets you select the country and projection to see how the view shifts. World maps are…

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Married by When

There is no exact time when everyone gets married. You have your own timeline. I have mine. However, we can see when it tends to happen by the percentage of…

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✚ Step Chart, Enhanced

Welcome to the Process, the newsletter on designing useful charts that work and read better than defaults. This week we look at the step chart and how to highlight specific…

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Deep dive into selection expressions for calculation groups

If you’ve worked with calculation groups, you know how powerful they are for simplifying measure logic and enhancing report functionality. It doesn’t stop there though; selection expressions offer even more…

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World map with south on top and Brazil in center

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Brazil’s agency for statistics and maps, released a world map that shows south on top and Brazil in the center. This probably…

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Likelihood of dying on your birthday

The birthday effect is a statistical anomaly that shows higher likelihood of death on or near your birthday. For the Pudding, Russell Samora analyzes mortality data to see if this…

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Takeaways from Coding with AI

I thought I’d offer a few takeaways and reflections based on last week’s first AI Codecon virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It….

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from conference rooms to cookouts: how to practice public speaking

A: Lunch-and-learns, fellowship groups, book clubs, and cookouts are this type of opportunity to improve your presentation skills. Q: What are “low-stakes environments”? Last week, towards the end of an…

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Vibing at Home

After a post by Andrej Karpathy went viral, “vibe coding” became the buzzword of the year—or at least the first quarter. It means programming exclusively with AI, without looking at…

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AI and Programming: The Beginning of a New Era

Our AI Codecon conference kicked off today with Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It. Here are my opening remarks introducing the series’ themes. You…