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Buzzwords and trends come and go, but the core task of telling compelling stories with data remains one of the main pillars in data scientists’ daily workflow. For practitioners who’d like to up their visualization game, this week we’re highlighting some of our best recent articles on creating powerful, effective, and sleek deliverables.
Our selection tackles the topic from multiple angles, so whether you’re interested in chart optimization, geospatial aids, or interactive dashboards, we’re sure you’ll find something here to inspire you and help you expand your current skill set. Happy tinkering!
- Step-by-Step Guide for Building Bump Charts in Plotly
Ready to move on from bar charts into more advanced and custom formats? Don’t miss Amanda Iglesias Moreno’s Plotly-based tutorial, which introduces a complete workflow for creating a bump chart, a more specialized visualization that is “designed to explore changes in a ranking over time” and allows us to “quickly identify trends and detect elements at the top or bottom of the ranking.” - Easy Map Boundary Extraction with GeoPandas
Working with geospatial data can be very rewarding—not to mention essential in many industries—but it can also get tricky and occasionally unwieldy. Lee Vaughan’s latest Python guide brings clarity and practicality to a very common use case: extracting, measuring, and plotting country borders.