albertocairo.com
Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). Newsletter: https://theartofinsight.substack.com/ Website: www.albertocairo.com
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What spine?
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The book will help you analyze all of the charts you see about health, politics, and box office returns. I’m hoping to apply what I’ve learned at work also.
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Nothing! If you know where you're going, it can help you get there faster but it can't do anything on its own. Seems pretty likely that generative AI has hit a wall and it's an amazing assistant but use-cases where it can be truly autonomous are rare.
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I find the same thing -- once I have an editorial plan for how to approach a plot, it's a great reminder of the command line args and parameters that I otherwise would look up.
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This was probably the best response I got to an admittedly-kinda-snarky post I wrote:
bsky.app/profile/smac...
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I used it yesterday to figure out how to change the order of factors to control their order on the axis. AI is good for stuff you don't do often and just need a reminder for.
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I've seen this doi.org/10.3390/fi16... and felt sick for a bit.
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I’ve been using things like Claude to OK effect in the data-mining and formula writing in spreadsheets, that I can then use for some decent charts / visualisations within sheets / excel.
Which I know doesn’t answer your exact call for help, but is a point of view; Data science yes, data viz “no”
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Best I’ve got is using the LLM to write custom headlines and summaries for map pop ups. Instead of stilted templates of results, you get a short narrative. mattwaite.github.io/posts/a-simp...
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The ones in that course were terrible. I could design something better in Illustrator in a fraction of the time it took to write the right prompts
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Sometimes code suggestions come in handy. It’s pretty useful for helping with regex. But yeah, it’s a *very* small part of my workflow and not for lack of trying to find uses.
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oofff there is maybe a use case for helping write python or R code (although I've had a lot of students have problems especially with R code I think in part because there are so many different ways to write) or maybe data cleanup, but I think even then it skips thinking critically about the data
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Yep, it's good for saving time with regex or Excel formulas but I've not seen it create a chart I'd want to show anyone else yet
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I've found it reasonably helpful for suggesting colours (ask it for hex codes). Not much else for dataviz.
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The best I've been able to get is some help with cleaning up data. And that takes some work and a very detailed check. But there's no other part of the process that I think AI has been able to help even a little bit with.
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Here you can find all graphics in vector (PDF) format www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/jkd1e...
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Hi, thanks for reading. Yes, indeed. There are 2-3 misprint in the hardcover edition, unfortunately. Let me find the folder with all graphics and I'll send you the link
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I'm in a similar place...
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Why am I not surprised that he's a Jesse Singal follower?
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Illustrator. But you can use things such as InkScape (open source) or Figma, too