🌡️ The recent #HeatWave in #Mexico has been intense, with cities like #Oaxaca experiencing prolonged periods of extreme temperatures. Here's a visualization I created about the number of hot and cold days. In 2024 104 out of 148 days (70%) were extraordinarily hot. #dataviz 📊
Charles Owens was a prolific mapmaker and illustrator that conveyed the international complexities of WWII in a way that was accessible to the average person. People at the time even saved his maps as a point of reference, such as this for the perils of the submarine warfare of the Atlantic and beyond in 1943.
(1/4) TIL about the plotnine library- the grammar of graphics in Python 🚀
I had never heard about the Plotnine library until I came across the Posit Plotnine contest (see the link below). The plotnine is a Python implementation of a grammar of graphics based on the ggplot2 library.
Here is a great resource for getting started with Observable Framework by Allison Horst. Observable Framework is an open-source JS library for creating dashboards. The sequence of videos covers how to set up a project and data loader, customize the dashboard, and deploy it.
The End To End Data Science With R is a new book by Rene Essomba. The book, as the name implies, focuses on the core data science applications using R ❤️. This book covers the following topics:
✅ Exploratory data analysis
✅ Data visualization
✅ Supervised learning
✅ Unsupervised learning
✅ Time series
✅ Natural language processing
✅ Image classification
@stefan@stefan Another reason why Phanpy has >63% of alt texts on images, has to be that users have a constant reminder and experience of alt texts, since the text appears as a caption.
When I typed in an alt text in the normal Mastodon web client, the devil inside me used to whisper: "pssst! most people won't see that text anyways".
The example in the image is from a post by @mariatta - random hi from your follower 👋
You can still see some trends, for example, people who use Ivory for iOS posted 49% of their images with alt text, compared to Mastodon's 17.8% for Android and 20% for iOS users.
But I am not sure if there is enough data to draw solid conclusions.