NYT and WaPo Data Visualizations on Carbon Emissions Recreated in R

After President Trump declared that the U.S. was pulling out of the Paris agreement on climate change, the New York Times and Washington Post published a couple of stories. In these stories, they included a few charts. They caught my eye and I wanted to see whether I could tell similar stories and draw some […]

Interview: Bala Deshpande, Predictive Analytics Thought Leader

Bala Deshpande is a thought leader in the manufacturing analytics and data science space. He founded and sold a data science company. Also, wrote the book “Predictive Analytics and Data Mining: Concepts and Practice with RapidMiner.” I don’t know how he found some time, but he also started the Predictive Analytics World — Manufacturing conference. […]

How to Create a Wall Street Journal Data Visualization in R

We know that the NY Times data visualizations are pretty awesome, but the Wall Street Journal’s data visualizations are nothing to laugh at. In fact, one of my favorite books on data visualization is by Dona Wong, the former graphics editor of Wall Street Journal and a student of Ed Tufte at Yale (and yes, […]

How to Create a Data Visualization from the New York Times in R

Undoubtedly, the New York Times publishes the best data visualizations and infographics that are data intensive, yet are elegant. The elegance comes from carefully studying the data, identifying the key patterns and simplifying the graphics to show these patterns or trends. Here’s what Amanda Cox, editor of The Upshot, said in an interview “we probably […]

100+ Public Speakers on Data Science/Analytics for Your Next Conference

Finding speakers for your next event is always a challenge. And add that to the challenge is finding speakers who speak on data science or analytics. I always wished there was a quick way to find all the public speakers on data science.  Well, lucky for you, With some Twitter magic, I was able to […]