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Kat Higgs
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I'm an all around nerd who loves data visualisation. She/her.

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scottishtrans.bsky.social
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a day where we pause to remember those who we have lost around the world this year as a result of transphobic violence. It continues to be the case that Black trans women, trans women of colour, and trans sex workers are most at risk of murder.
Graphic which reads 'TDOR 2024'. The scottish trans logo is in the top right corner. At the bottom of the graphic is an illustration of five candles in the trans flag colours.
November 20, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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sponce1.bsky.social
Here is my #viz for the #TidyTuesday challenge—W47. This one is about Bob's Burgers Episodes.
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
Time series visualization showing the proportion of questions vs. exclamations in Bob's Burgers dialogue across 14 seasons (2011-2024). Blue lines (questions) consistently trend higher than coral lines (exclamations), ranging 5-20%. Red circles highlight episodes where exclamations exceed questions.
November 18, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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drxeo.eu
Here is a comparison between 1990 and 2018.
November 19, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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alexselbyb.bsky.social
Day 18 #30DayMapChallenge
I 3D-printed John Snow's 1854 cholera map of Soho. It took ages.
3D-printed map of Soho in 1854. Black marks on top of the buildings represent deaths from cholera caused by infected water from the Broad Street Pump (note the missing handle!). Top-down view. 3D-printed map of Soho in 1854. Black marks on top of the buildings represent deaths from cholera caused by infected water from the Broad Street Pump (note the missing handle!). Side view. 3D-printed map of Soho in 1854. Black marks on top of the buildings represent deaths from cholera caused by infected water from the Broad Street Pump (note the missing handle!). Framed, close-up. 3D-printed map of Soho in 1854. Black marks on top of the buildings represent deaths from cholera caused by infected water from the Broad Street Pump (note the missing handle!). Frame, "artful" shot.
November 18, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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aendra.com
My milquetoast take is that generative AI shouldn't ever be used with data visualisation full stop because hallucinated data is much harder to spot when it's been abstracted into a visualisation.
elijahmeeks.bsky.social Elijah Meeks @elijahmeeks.bsky.social · Nov 17
What is the most impressive thing you've seen #genai do with #dataviz? Whether it's creating it or critiquing it or otherwise. I've been so impressed by GenAI for code and text and image generation but have yet to see truly interesting use for data visualization whether charts or otherwise.
November 17, 2024 at 11:44 AM
kathiggsdata.bsky.social
My first ever blog post! In it we introduce plotting with ggplot2 by creating some penguin based bar charts🐧📊

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A faceted bar chart of penguins in the Palmer Archipelago created using the ggplot2 package in R. The plot shows that Gentoo penguins were the most common on Biscoe island, Chinstrap on Dream island and Adelie was the only species of penguin on Torgersen island. We also see that an equal amount of male and female penguins were studied by island, by species and by island by species. Finally the figure shows that Adelie and Gentoo are the only species present on Biscoe, Adelie and Chinstrap are the only species present on Dream and that Adelie is the only species present on Torgersen.
November 18, 2024 at 7:22 AM