Posts Tagged “data-visualization”

Various pretty pictures I made to visualize information

• A Diagram to Explain the Various Magic the Gathering Formats 26 March 2024
  • data-visualization
  • games
  • magic-the-gathering

  I was struggling to explain the various formats of magic the gathering to my friend, so I made this diagram using d2lang, a nifty diagram creation language. There’s about 5 commonly played formats on paper and then there’s the digital formats. Each format has different card pools and its own banlist to enhance the health of the meta. Each format may also have different set construction rules, but the only special one is commander.

• Tire Pressure & The Polar Vortex in Jupyter Python 05 February 2023
  • data-visualization
  • physics
  • programming
  • python

  I had low tire pressure yesterday due to the polar vortex, so I added additional air to my tires to about 34PSI at 22F, today it is much warmer at nearly 50F and the PSI went up more than I expected. Also the PSI doesn’t seem to change as much from Spring to Summer, when the weather can swing up more than 20 degrees from night to day. I decided to write some python to try to figure this whole thing out using the Ideal Gas Law. Also no attempt was made to account for the weight of the car, and how that adds pressure to tire.

• Interactive Breadth First Search in a Grid 20 December 2020
  • app
  • breadth-first
  • data-visualization
  • demos
  • graph-search
  • graphs
  • interactive
  • programming

  Breadth first search(BFS) is a very powerful and useful algorithm for exploring graph like structures. A BFS searches it’s nearest neighbors first before moving on. It’s main use is to find a path using the fewest hops. Here we use it to explore a grid that can be modified by a user. In this grid, we have verticies (the grid boxes), and edges (the box north, south, east and west).

• Building the Lottery Data Viz 02 April 2019
  • data-visualization
  • lottery
  • tutorial
  • web-scraping

  I previously posted a lottery data visualization in which I attempted to correlate how often a certain number came up in the PA lottery given that some other number came up. I built the visualization using Python, SQLite, and Chart.JS on the front end. Since, I like sql I’ll about the queries and methods used. These methods could probably be massively improved, but I did it in a couple of hours, because I was bored.

• Pa Lottery Data Viz Tool 20 March 2019
  • data-visualization
  • interactive
  • lottery
  • sqlite
  • statistics

  In this post, I provide access to a data visualizer for the Pennsylvania lottery using data I pull regularly from their RSS feed. This tool uses SQLite and some scripts to automatically pull data to this post which is then visualized using Chart.js. I created histograms of the most common drawn numbers for the drawings in which a particular number appears, and you can see that visualized below in the charts.

• My Relative Credit Card Spend 03 January 2019
  • analysis
  • credit-cards
  • data-visualization
  • programming
  • r-lang

  I’ve had a credit card now for about 2 years, so I thought I would make a cool visualization that shows my relative spend through out the year on a daily basis. I think this plot came out to be relatively cool.

• Monthly Hits on My Blog Posts 08 May 2018
  • data-visualization
  • log-analysis

  Just sharing a data visualization of my most popular blog posts.