Screenshot of dora, kiss, and alger color palettes from {ltc} package

screenshot of many of the palettes available from {MoMAColors} package

Hex sticker of {ButterflyColors} package

New {paletteer} release dropped over the weekend! 159 color palettes have been added from vangogh, ButterflyColors, MoMAColors, PrettyCols, waRhol, MexBrewer, and ltc. Bringing the total to 2759 palettes from 75 different packages 🎨 #rstats

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

Took a break from social during vacation, which was easier than I thought it’d be 🙂 But as promised here’s the part two of the article of fine tuning your chatbot with #Python and #OpenAI where I actually feed it customer queries! Hope you enjoy.

blog.gopenai.com/in-depth-gui...

In-depth Guide to Building a Fine-Tuned Customer Service Chatbot with Python and OpenAI — Part... Laying the Groundwork: From Basic Setup to Conversational AI chatbot

It was really fun to create a customer service chatbot with #OpenAI and #Python. Here's the first in-depth setup article on the steps and I am excited to for the next one - Fine tuning it with actual customer service support query dataset.

A grid map showing the population density in equal-sized areas in Germany.

Population density, you ask?

Collage of maps

#30DayMapChallenge - That’s a wrap folks. These challenges are so helpful to learn new things and most importantly to find that amazing community of support and growth.

@observablehq collection of all plots: observablehq.com/collection/@...

Railway network of Switzerland plotted as white dots on a black map

Day 30 - #30DayMapChallenge coming to a close with my favorite… the rail network in Europe, so I plotted the densest one!

@observablehq code: observablehq.com/d/3387899f31...

color-coded map showing the land area of counties in Washington state and population concentration

color-coded map showing the land area of counties in Washington state and population concentration

Day 29 - population #30DayMapChallenge - the stark difference in Washington county land area and population concentration

@observablehq notebook: observablehq.com/d/e862d99f7f...

Seattle traffic collisions plotted as dots on a black map and split by hour of day

Day 28: chart or map #30DayMapChallenge This right here is the reason I leave for work at 6:30 as after that even 5 min delay in leaving leads to additional 15 min delay in arrival!

@observablehq plot: observablehq.com/d/4649e9509a...

The image is a black and white graphic representation of migration patterns to and from Washington State during the years 2016 to 2020.

Day 24: B&W #30DayMapChallenge Washington state, where are the people coming from and leaving to.

@observablehq code: observablehq.com/d/aac5c362ca...

data visualization in the form of a world map, depicting diamond production across the globe.

Day 23: 3D #30DayMapChallenge Diamond production across the globe. You can play the animation in the notebook.

@observablehq notebook: observablehq.com/d/f493efcdc8...

The image is a stylized conal projection map showing global connections or flows centered on a specific point marked with a red dot, with white lines radiating out to various locations across the continents.

Day 22: North is not always up. Bilateral Migration map of US replicated with a conic equal area projection really tripped me up. But it’s pretty to look at. #30DayMapChallenge

@observablehq notebook: observablehq.com/d/a548d4c4fc...

Seattle collisions plotted on black map of Seattle

Seattle collisions plotted on black map of Seattle

Seattle collisions plotted on black map of Seattle

Seattle collisions plotted on black map of Seattle

Day 21: Raster - #30DayMapChallenge I made accidental art trying to play with the raster options in @observablehq Plot using Seattle collision data. There is definitely a concentration.

Code: observablehq.com/d/9eff375d45...

Next-generation access to Databricks clusters in RStudio with sparklyr and pysparklyr - Posit Sparklyr is the popular and powerful R interface for Apache Spark, including Spark clusters hosted in Databricks. The latest version introduces a new backend hosted in the companion pysparklyr package...

We are thrilled to announce that the latest version of sparklyr is on CRAN. sparklyr is the popular and powerful #RStats interface for #Apache #Spark, including Spark clusters hosted in #Databricks.

Learn more in the blog post: posit.co/blog/databri...

map of the United States with a focus on state amphibians. It poses the question, "Is your State Amphibian a Frog or a Salamander?" and features icons of frogs and salamanders to indicate which type of amphibian is the state symbol for each state

map of the United States with a focus on state amphibians. It poses the question, "Is your State Amphibian a Frog or a Salamander?" and features icons of frogs and salamanders to indicate which type of amphibian is the state symbol for each state

Day 20 - outdoors #30DayMapChallenge - I learned states in US have state amphibians and Washington’s amphibian - Pacific chorus, was advocated for by fourth graders! You can toggle between the two and hover to see name of amphibian by state.

@observablehq - observablehq.com/d/40a49c6edf...

Great idea! Thank you Francis for including me 😊

Maybe we keep this going? Let’s repost with people we admire in the data viz world. Some of mine:

@cedscherer.bsky.social
@karaman.is
@deepsha.bsky.social
@ansgarw.bsky.social
@nrennie.bsky.social
@visualisingdata.bsky.social
@fil.rezo.net

Thanks for the holler Tanya! Can’t wait to follow everyone on this list if I’m missing and add more of my own inspirations 🙂

Canada wind turbine locations

Day 18 - Atmosphere - #30DayMapChallenge

Canada wind turbines show a visible bump around mid 2000s. You can see the animation in the notebook.

@observablehq code: observablehq.com/d/c6f5c06973...

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ | Day 17 | Flow

some arrows to show the largest population moves between states

code: github.com/curatedmess/...

#rstats

The image displays a stylized global map highlighting the top 10 countries of global bilateral migration from the United States in 2000.

Day 17 - Flow…of people #30DayMapChallenge

@observablehq notebook: observablehq.com/d/a548d4c4fc...

The image features a map of Australia overlaid with red dots indicating sightings of the Numbat. In the foreground, there's a realistic photo of a Numbat, which is a small Australian marsupial.

Day 16 - Oceania - #30DayMapChallenge - where are the numbats! Numbats are unfortunately considered endangered today.

@observablehq notebook: observablehq.com/d/42af72caab...

hydro energy production in various countries of Europe for the year 2018. It shows different countries with varying shades of blue, indicating the level of hydro energy production in gigawatt hours (GWh). There's a call-out for Norway as the country with the highest production at 139.5K GWh.

Day 14 - Europe, hydro energy distribution with Norway topping the chart.
@observablehq code: observablehq.com/d/9aeb73c82f...

The image is a choropleth map depicting political rights in Africa for the year 2020. It uses shades of green to indicate different levels of political freedom across the continent, as assessed by Freedom House. The data comes from Freedom House's "Freedom in the World" report, a standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties, published annually since 1972.

Day 13 - Choropleth #30DayMapChallenge Political rights in Africa for the year 2020.

@observablehq notebook: observablehq.com/d/6c6d57b119...

This is the notebook that taught me to create this viz with very detailed instructions by Allison Horst and Paul Buffa - observablehq.com/@observableh...

The image shows a dark map of South America with a highlighted area showing the migration pattern of the Turkey vulture

Day 12 South America - #30DayMapChallenge - This is my fav animation created because when I started I didn’t expect it to reveal such a beautiful pattern. Click “play” in the notebook for the animated pattern.
@observablehq code: observablehq.com/d/62f92bdd6e...

The image shows a stylized map of Europe with a vintage appearance, overlaid with a compass rose indicating direction. The large title "EUROPE" spans across the top. The map is related to data from a "Stackoverflow developer survey, median compensation, 2023," with darker areas showing higher compensation.

Day 11 - retro - #30DayMapChallenge mapping a retro theme with a very recent data survey from stackoverflow about developer compensation in Europe.

@observablehq code: observablehq.com/d/28f2d06910...

Us map with each state as a tile and house elections results marked in red and blue bars for republic and Democrat between 1976-2022

Us map with each state as a tile and house elections results marked in red and blue bars for republic and Democrat between 1976-2022 and height of bar is the vote %

Day 10 - North America - I’ve been wanting to learn to make a US chart map with @observablehq Plot and todays #30DayMapChallenge combined perfectly with this weeks #tidytuesday to make that happen. I couldn’t decide between the two versions though!
Code: observablehq.com/d/f970cc6784...

State of Texas plot with hexagons in tornado prone areas. The size and color of each hexagon is proportional to the number of tornadoes in the area between 2011-2020

Day 9 - hexagons #30DayMapChallenge
The state with the most tornadoes, and the parts of it that have been impacted by them based on frequency of tornadoes in the region of Texas.

@observablehq code: observablehq.com/d/d0f5edf1d6...

💡 Education researchers 💡
If you are starting to clean data collected for a research study and looking for a standardized checklist of data cleaning steps, check out this resource to help get started. 👇
cghlewis.com/blog/data_cl...

Yayyyy! Go @jadeynryan.bsky.social
All you cat and tech lovers, note!

Want to follow the contributions to the #30DayMapChallenge on Bluesky? 📍

Add this custom feed to your feeds: bsky.app/profile/did:...

It captures posts with 30DayMapChallenge (including some spelling errors) in post, image alt, and link texts from the last 7 days.

A Dorling cartogram with the flags in circular shape in proportion to the population of the countries of Africa.

Africa is the continent with the fastest population growth. This Dorling cartogram shows the flags in proportion to the population of the countries. 🌍
#30DayMapChallenge | Day 08: Africa #rstats