Jul 15 2023
What Generative AI Generates
Let us focus on what Generative AI does generate, speaking exclusively from personal experience. Generative AI is the generic term for systems like ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, DALL-E, or MidJourney, that generate text, images, or other media in response to prompts. All sorts of news sources report it as a revolutionary technology poised to dramatically change how we work and communicate.
Sep 23 2023
Orbit Charts, Revisited
Data visualization is not just the art of presenting data to an audience. Upstream from this, you use visualizations in data cleaning to identify defective points, and in exploratory analysis, to identify patterns of interest. Then, you validate these patterns with a more formal analysis. Once confident that you have findings of value to communicate, you worry about making a compelling presentation.
Nick Desbarats and I had a long exchange on LinkedIn prompted by his article Connected Scatterplots Make Me Feel Dumb in Nightingale, the Data Visualization Society journal, on 8/29/2023. What he called Connected Scatterplot is what I call orbit charts, and I have found them helpful, particularly in analysis.
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By Michel Baudin • Data science • 2 • Tags: data science, Orbit chart, scatterplot, Visualization