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Great looking site. For those who don't know/realize - this is the work of Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger (and team?) - co-founders of Instagram. Statistically sp
by dsukhin 6y ago
Great looking site. For those who don't know/realize - this is the work of Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger (and team?) - co-founders of Instagram.
Statistically speaking - love that it has error bars and timeseries. Makes it infinitely more informative to track relative to news, events, and mitigation strategies and have a sense of the confidence of the estimate. The provided Jupyter notebook is a great resource.
Alphabetically speaking - I enjoyed the puzzle of figuring out how the states were sorted in the timeseries list (e.g. why was Alaska before Alabama, Iowa before Idaho, etc.). Turns out it's alphabetical by the two letter state abbreviation which is not shown - just a fun observation :)
- zaroth 6y agoAh, thank you for pointing out the author. Helps with the inferiority complex for my past attempts at data visualization dashboards. It does say in the footer: "Data analysis by Kevin Systrom and site built by Mike Krieger, with thanks to Ryan O’Rourke and Robby Stein." I particularly liked browsing the code for the hero chart, which you can find under static/js/StackViz.js. 630 lines of JS and you can see the level of attention to detail. I couldn't find a copyright or licensing statement, but there are a few pieces of StackOverflow code copied and pasted into the bundle, so in theory the whole code base is therefore open source.