elibryan.bsky.social
Raleigh. How might we visualize people, fairly and equitably? Data / dataviz / design / psychology / research geek. He / him. Chaotic good. Follows Fizzlethorpe Bristlebane. Design / research / writing at https://3iap.com.
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Obviously lots of caveats like this "works" when those algorithms already exist on the internet in ways that are well documented... and the stakes are extremely low... and I'm skeptical/knowledgable enough to look past the nonsense... So it's like a slightly more responsive StackOverflow?
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Maybe a different context, but I've found "vibe coding" super helpful for learning new methods. e.g. I wanted to learn about contour maps and said "make a fn to convert this matrix to contour paths" and it was horrible, but it worked enough to "play" with it and learn experientially
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Sorry I'm dense, but what's an example of a "source file?"
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I'm so nervous about Frozen 3.....
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And, of course, there was my and Gabrielle Merite's talk, wherein we laid out a 45-minute conspiracy theory about Florida's reptilian ruling class... and also shared a few ideas on ethically visualizing social outcomes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlNy...
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Despite their questionable judgement on cats, Leticia Pozza and @hellopeiying.bsky.social captured the room with their inspiring stories and insights on running a data studio
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_C9...
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Jane Huang, @wernimont.bsky.social, and Carly Bobak review their chilling study into American eugenics records, illustrating the importance of a critical lens toward any given dataset
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fP5...
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Steve Franconeri discusses the golden rule of effective dataviz: "Keep your comparisons close and enemies closer"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdHL...
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From @emiliaruzicka.bsky.social, practical advice for inclusively visualizing gender groups
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjPE...
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From @zhoyoyo.bsky.social, an inside look at persuasive editorial dataviz for WaPo Opinions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn6X...
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Implementation was Javascript and then Figma. There's nothing fancy about it, it just stacks a bunch of icons for each level. The most annoying part was making sure the people in the top rows were aligned toward the center of the distro, which I just did manually in Figma.
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This approach breaks down in other contexts... e.g. published NC achievement data only gives 3 of 5 levels and they're not evenly spaced. So for a project I'm doing here, I'm just generating matching synthetic data, then will probably show using quantile dots.
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The main difference is histograms / quantile plots need the underlying distributions, which isn't easily available with published achievement data. But at least for this PIAAC data, you can just plot the provided level counts as stacks of people and get a similar effect.
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Thanks for sharing @datavisfriendly.bsky.social! If it helps I talked about some of the motivations here..
And to be clear, it's kind of an "accidental" histogram, since PIAAC levels happen to be evenly spaced. And it aimed for benefits of @mjskay.com's (quantile) dots but is less generalizable 😬.
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Before Ida B. Wells got out into the field and conducted her own investigations and statistical analysis the narrative that lynchings happened as a result of rape was the hegemonic understanding. Even Black advocates echoed some of these charges and demanded moral uplift in the face of lynching.
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fwiw I think all the Ivy League educated white dude journos are activists for their way of life—the status quo—they just also get to define what "objectivity" is. Only a person as privileged as Peter Baker can brag about not voting because "bias," as if being in the news nullifies citizenship.
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Ahh, I love this phrasing!
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Can attest as a visitor! My kids love this place! I love this place! They have a sloth who lives with butterflies!!
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This is super important. Not sure if it's desire for spicier headlines or just not understanding polls, but this happens constantly... and it has consequences. One of the things we showed in our last paper is how polling data can act as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
arxiv.org/abs/2309.00690