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29th week April news digest

Hi there!

Here we go! Data news digest for the past week. Hope you’ll enjoy these findings.

Data Analytics

• Tableau Conference 2024

Keynotes Summary from Tableau Tim

Main Product Innovations, like
- Local file save with Tableau Public – smth we’ve been dreaming of for a long time
- More advanced visuals with Viz Extensions
- Figma to Tableau Plugin by Tristan Guillevin & Jessica Bautista

• The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation

The shocking truth about the tendency for unskilled people to overestimate their competence which in reality is just an autocorrelation! Learn more.

• Airbnb Brandometer: Powering Brand Perception Measurement on Social Media Data with AI

Success story from Airbnb on how they quantify brand perceptions from social media platforms through deep learning.

• Data
  - Operationalizing Data Quality: The Key to Successful Modern Analytics
  - Modeling Slowly Changing Dimensions
  - How to Build Tailored Enterprise Chatbots at Scale

• Python
  - 5 Simple Steps to Automate Data Cleaning with Python
  - Demonstration of Principal Component Analysis
  - Introducing Tapyr: Create and Deploy Enterprise-Ready PyShiny Dashboards with Ease
  - The Elbow Method for Determining the Number of Clusters in K-Means

• R
  - Introducing check_duplicate_rows() from TidyDensity

Visualization

• Results of the #30daychartchallenge

Dive into the results of the annual 30-day chart challenge in all social networks.

Don’t forget to participate next year in April! More info

Look at the results from:

• Ihar Yanousky (photo below)

• Cedric Scherer (author of the challenge)

• Joseph Ricafort

• and many others! All the works are absolutely beautiful!

• Flowers and Numbers

  Results of the wonderful community project started by Natalia Kiseleva. Each small block on the picture below – participant’s visualization of this community's characteristics. Nice Data Art techniques and truly inspiring vizzes.

  

• Treemap of Psychological constructs and measures

  Great visual representation of how the psychological field is fragmented. More than half of the presented data psychological measures have never been used outside of the paper that introduced them!

  

• The Flipbook Experiment by Pudding

  The Pudding conducted a social experiment and asked people to trace the previous person’s drawing to make a flipbook-style animation.

• Every North American NHL Player's Birth City

  

• 42: GPT's answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

A bit of Douglas Adams vibes. What number ChatGPT would tell you if you ask it for a random number.

Tableau Picks

• MoM2024 W15 | UK Unemployment Rates over Decades by Takafumi Shukuya

• Business Dashboard - Sales Manager Performance by Nudge BI

• Time Series Analysis_Practical Approaches by Alexander Varlamov

• My Speedcubing Goals by Heather Cox

Findings

Streamlit – to create web apps in Python. You can also create dashboards with it.

Education

• Meta Data Analyst Professional Certificate
  Data Analytics course from Meta.

• Getting Started with PyTest: Effortlessly Write and Run Tests in Python
  PyTest is a Python package that simplifies the process of writing and running test cases.

• Free Python Resources That Can Help You Become a Pro
  List of Python courses, books, projects, cheatsheets

• Learning Path: Shiny
  A set ow workshops to master shiny skills.