{"id":19,"date":"2020-11-30T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-01-27T01:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T06:16:52","slug":"visualizing-the-death-of-james-wolfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2020\/11\/30\/visualizing-the-death-of-james-wolfe\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing the death of James Wolfe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">History paintings are like data visualizations. Here, NYT&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jasonfarago\/\">Jason Farago<\/a> presents\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/25\/arts\/benjamin-west-general-wolfe.html\">Benjamin West&#8217;s 1770 painting &#8220;The Death of General Wolfe.&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>If your dashboard looks like West&#8217;s painting, you are in trouble. Then you need a Jason Farago to make it accessible to the management team. Dashboards summarize data, as West did in this history painting in 1770 (accurately or not -See Jason&#8217;s walkthrough on that). The higher the density of information, the lower the chances of communicating successfully. Businesses increasingly need data translators or communicators, not so much &#8220;data artists.&#8221; West is the data artist. Jason is the data translator. West skillfully abuses ggplot and matplotlib for the sake of art. Jason further masters Plotly, Shiny, and Dash.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History paintings are like data visualizations. Here, NYT&#8217;s Jason Farago presents\u00a0Benjamin West&#8217;s 1770 painting &#8220;The Death of General Wolfe.&#8221; If your dashboard looks like West&#8217;s painting, you are in trouble. Then you need a Jason Farago to make it accessible to the management team. Dashboards summarize data, as West did in this history painting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}