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Cartography Playground

Cartography Playground is a great interactive site that demonstrates various algorithms and techniques used in modern cartography such as clustering and generalisation. Tools on the site allow the user to interact with the various models and options.

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Meteor Showers From Space

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This is a fantastic interactive website that allows you to view numerous meteor show formations within the solar system. You can even zoom in and move around, i.e. space travel! :-p

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Genetically Optimised Floorplans

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This is a great demonstration post by Joel Simon on using genetic algorithms to optimise a school floorplan. He demonstrates an optimised layout for traffic flow, fire escape routes and access to windows among other things.

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Datavis Caveats

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This is an excellent resource on the many pitfalls to avoid when using the many many different types of data visualisation methods and graphs. The site gives some nice examples of dos and don'ts for each graph type.

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Cultural Constellations

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This is a beautiful interactive website that showcases how the same stars form different constellations across the many sky cultures, from the Western Modern constellations to those of the Navajo, Norse, Hawaiian and Aztec cultures to name but a few.

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Dashboard Design Rules

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This is a very useful article by Taras Bakusevych on UXPlanet.org about the do's and dont's of dashboard layout and design. DAshboard type, graph purpose, layout flow and margins are just a few things that should be defined before design is addressed.

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Design

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Model Tuning and Bias-Variance Tradeoff

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R2D3 have created a fantastic data visualisation describing how data models can be tuned to avoid over-emphases on biases of variances during the training phases.

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Blockchain Explainer

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Reuters graphics have put together a really nice site describing the basics of blockchain including lots of animations describing the steps involved in adding records to blocks.

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Model Of Ancient Rome

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Italian architect Italo Gismondi was commissioned in 1933 to build a 1:250 scale model of ancient Rome, which he completed in 1955 and donited it to The Museum of Roman Civilization.

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Life

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Pop Music Diversity

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The Pudding have a great interactive article showing the diversity of pop music across the decades. The article charts the similarity of hits based on their instrument gene, allowing you to filter by synth, guitar distortion or drums agressiveness among others. The article also ranks songs using the 8 data points of acousticness, danceablility, energy, instrumentalness, liveness, loudness, speechiness and valence in order to chart the similarity of songs across different decades.

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