Synopsis Market Research is great at compiling the right data, but not so good at making it easy to use. This isn’t about “storytelling”. It’s about the data itself, and clarity on what delivering it actually means. Getting the data out of siloes like tabs and SPSS where it cannot adequately be mined, and out into the big wide world as Tidy Data.
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A Dive Into Some Global Flooding Data
I always like to keep a look out for interesting open data sets. One great resource for such things is Jeremy Singer-Vine’s Data is Plural weekly newsletter that brings together a collection of “useful, curious datasets” for us all to enjoy and wrangle with.
One that cropped up last week was The Dartmouth Flood Observatory’s Global Archive of Large Flood Events.
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There’s been some great animated maps in the data viz world of late. Most notably this stunner by John Muyskens for the Washington Post, showing the diverted flight paths of planes getting themselves into the line of the recent solar eclipse. What’s more it was made with R and ggplot2! Have a look here:
Hundreds of aircraft flocked to the moon’s shadow during Monday’s eclipse. Animation by @JohnMuyskens
Data courtesy of @flightradar24 pic.
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TL;DR If you’re looking for a tool to scrape all the posts in facebook page/group with a link and have the data presented to you in a searchable, filterable table then check out the shiny app I made for this purpose by clicking on the image below (very niche market, I know).
If however, that’s not why you’re here, and would like to look at some interesting ways of visualising social media data (or any kind of events over time data), please read on.
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