November 22, 2013
Briefly
- The Washington Post has a nicely-explained, simple example of an interactive parallel-coordinates plot. For variables with a natural ordering this often lets you display high-dimensional data on a flat screen .
- Harvard Business Review: A data scientist’s real job is storytelling (don’t actually agree)
- “In defense of bad maps” (ie most of those on the internets)
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The interactive parallel coordinate plot is indeed very nicely done, but is the data analysis equally good? On p2 Oregon, Maryland and Hawaii are singled out for poor performance, although all three may have data problems according to the small print. Oregon’s 2.2% eligibility figure just looks wrong.
And, by the way, how can the federal exchange states fall behind Oregon, Maryland and Hawaii, when they end up above them?
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