Development, design, society and technology. Founder @plotandscatter. Formerly innovations at @TELUS, MSc student at @oiioxford.
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I love the combination of visualization with sound, and this is a wonderful example: teropa.info/in-c/ – at Downtown, Vancouver
Another great one from several years back: listen.hatnote.com – at Downtown, Vancouver
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Did Sweden admit they were wrong after all? After weeks pushing for a #coronavirus strategy that would result in herd immunity, saying that deaths wouldn't be that bad, the chief epi for Sweden is now surprised at the death toll.
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businessinsider.com.au/coron…
Frank Hangler retweeted
Terrific explanation of why a product with steady demand and no utility with respect to coronavirus is nevertheless in short supply.
What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage marker.medium.com/what-every…
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The thing is if shutdowns and social distancing work perfectly and are extremely effective it will seem in retrospect like they were totally unnecessary overreactions.
Canadian media source: cbc.ca/news/world/cop-25-chi…
“Diplomats have listed Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the United States among those resisting bolder action.” – at Downtown, Vancouver
UK media source: bbc.com/news/science-environ…
“…negotiators from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) pointed the finger of blame at countries including Australia, the United States, Canada, Russia, India, China and Brazil.” – at Downtown, Vancouver
Frank Hangler retweeted
K we now have a new leader for strongest correlation, and I think this is narratively significant:
The share of workers in low-skilled jobs was a bigger predictor of swing than either Brexit vote or graduates.
Suggests this was more working class revolt than Brexit election.
Why not just cut to the chase and ask prospective students directly: “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Roman Catholic Church?” globalnews.ca/news/6183548/m… – at Downtown, Vancouver
Frank Hangler retweeted
Videos from @ieeevis #VisInPractice 2019 are now online: visinpractice.github.io/prog…
featuring:
@ProQuesAsker
@ideaOwl + @cherdarchuk
T. Wojtaszek / @UberEng
@infowetrust
@dyfbrain
@cydneybn
M. Venkataswamy + @jofu_
@hangler
@chadskelton
@neylano
J. Clyne / @NCAR_Science
@MollzMP
Frank Hangler retweeted
How effective is a regionally-weighted swing model (of the kind used in our app at plotandscatter.com/canada-el…) at predicting election results? Here are the preliminary findings based on this week’s election. – at Downtown, Vancouver
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How blue is Alberta? Very! This election result is in no way historically special. Interactively explore regional party support in elections since 1968 with our new visualization: plotandscatter.com/canadian-… #cdnpoli #elxn43 – at Downtown, Vancouver
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We asked soft voters what motivated their final choice in the campaign, those who supported the Liberals were considerably more likely to say it was a strategic choice:
angusreid.org/election-2019-…
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For anyone who wants to work with the preliminary results from last night’s election released by @ElectionsCan_E, the long format can be a little annoying. I put them into wide CSV format: gist.github.com/hangler/0554… May have errors: caveat downloader. #cdnpoli #elxn43 – at Downtown, Vancouver
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New version of the Canadian Election Explorer deployed, now with preliminary Elections Canada results from last night: plotandscatter.com/canada-el… #cdnpoli #elxn43 – at Downtown, Vancouver
