Data Science Article Reviews

Data Visualization has gone mainstream

Data visualization is becoming less of a tech company rarity and more a part of everyone’s everyday life.

This is an article summary about how data visualization has gone mainstream or something that is now considered to be conventional or normal. This article helps us see both the positive and negative effects of this realization. If you are interested in learning about the full article click here: It’s Official: Data Visualization has gone maintream

The first data visualization president

“When Donald Trump was elected, he framed and hung in the White House a map of the United States that implied he was elected by an enormous landslide. But as every frustrated data visualization expert pointed out, this map neglected to indicate that more people didn’t vote for Trump than did.”

See below for a side by side comparison between the US’s first data-science president, Thomas Jefferson, and our current president Donald Trump. Additionally, click on the tab

Trump’s Hurrican Dorian Flub

Trump’s Visual Tweet

On the left, we see Donald Trump tweeting an image of the United States divided into red and blue. On the right, we see how Thomas Jefferson charted the crops the slaves of his plantation planted every year. Link to Article

Donald Trump’s Hurrican Dorian Flub

In September 2019, Donald Trump presented false information about the range of Hurricane Dorian. This is another example of data visualization going awry.

Hurrican Dorian Flub

Giorgia Lupi…the good data visual scientist

“Giorgia Lupi, who has throughout her career eschewed this entire line of reasoning to forge a path that touches on traditional data visualization, data art, design, and data humanism.” Check out her website here

Giorgia Lupi

Meet Giorgia Lupi, an informational fashion designer who has taken her designs to a new narrative level.

Fashion Blog Photos

Check out Lupi’s collection: Mae Jemison The Astronaut. This collection was inspired by the data collected by the first black, female astronaut.

About the Author

Elijah Meeks is the executive director of the Data Visualization Society and a data visualization engineer at Apple. He’s the author of D3.js in Action and the creator of Semiotic, a React-based charting framework, as well as the Data Explorer found in the interact notebook platform. He’s created data visualization products in academia and industry, including a stint at Netflix and also creating digital humanities works at Stanford. This article was adapted with permission.

Code Chunks

Mtcars Bad Histogram

MTcars Good Histogram

library(ggplot2)
car2<-ggplot(mtcars, aes(x=mtcars$mpg)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 5)
car2