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Darnit, Data Munging

As I’ve continued my data analysis/visualization journey, I’ve bumped into the problem of “data munging.” This goes by various names, including wrangling, tidying, and cleaning. It’s commonly viewed as a major pain in the ass. That’s because, in many ways, it is. The last few weeks I’ve been working on a project to visualize the […]

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Using the Qualtrics JavaScript API to Create Visualizations

If you haven’t used Qualtrics for surveys before, I highly recommend it. The University of Minnesota maintains a contract with the company and we have access to use it for free. It’s by far the most robust survey software I’ve ever used. Today I needed to do some visualizations within Qualtrics for a client, based […]

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Browser-based Data Manipulation with Miso.Dataset

This is the first in a series of posts about browser-based data manipulation and visualization. Anyone hoping to jump on the web data visualization bandwagon is likely immediately intimidated when they start trying to figure out the nitty gritty of how to get various visualization libraries to work. Some like D3 and Google Charts have […]