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The 30 Day Chart Challenge with the USGS VizLab

A round up of @USGS_Datasci tweets for the

Date Posted May 12, 2022 Last Updated November 25, 2024
Author USGS Vizlab
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During the month of April, the 30 Day Chart Challenge brought data visualization practitioners around the world together. The chart challenge is a month-long “community-driven event with the goal to create a data visualization on a certain topic each day,” in which participants create charts to fit within five main categories: comparisons, distributions, relationships, timeseries, and uncertainties.

Here at USGS, we were excited to share our science and learn new data visualization skills along the way. Throughout the month we shared 23 new charts featuring the work of hydrologists, data scientists, and science communicators. A big thank you to all of the contributors from across the USGS Water Mission Area and Water Science Centers! We had participation from the Observing Systems Division (OSD), the Integrated Information Dissemination Division (IIDD), the Integrated Modeling and Prediction Division (IMPD), and the Utah (UT), South Atlantic (SA), Oregon (OR), Maryland-Delaware-DC (MD-DE-DC) and New England (NE) Water Science Centers (WSCs).

See below for all of the contributions form the chart challenge, and don’t forget to follow @USGS_DataSci on Twitter to see future data visualizations, or check out the USGS VizLab portfolio .

Day 1, Comparisons: Part-to-Whole by Michael Meyer (OSD)

Day 1, Comparisons: Part-to-Whole by Cee Nell (IIDD)

Day 2, Comparisons: Pictogram by Cee Nell (IIDD)

Day 3, Comparisons: Historical by Jordan Read (IIDD)

Day 4, Comparisons: Flora by Cee Nell (IIDD)

Day 5, Comparisons: Slope by Matthew Morriss (UT WSC)

Day 6, Comparisons: OWID Data by Matthew Morriss (UT WSC)

Day 7, Distributions: Physical by Simon Topp (IIDD)

Day 8, Distributions: Mountains by Krissy Hopkins (SA WSC)

Day 9, Distributions: Statistics by Sam Oliver (IIDD)

Day 11, Distributions: Circular by Lauren Koenig (IMPD)

Day 11, Distributions: Circular by Caelan Simeone (OR WSC)

Day 11, Distributions: Circular by Hayley Corson-Dosch (IIDD)

Day 14, Relationships: 3-Dimensional by Michael Meyer (OSD)

Day 16, Relationships: Environment by Lindsay Platt (IIDD)

Day 19, Timeseries: Global Change by Scott Hamshaw (IMPD)

Day 20, Timeseries: New Tool by Bekah Redwine and Nicole Felts (IIDD)

Day 20, Timeseries: New Tool by Merritt Harlan (OSD)

Day 21, Timeseries: Down/Upwards by Theodore Thompson & Salme Cook (IMPD)

Day 22, Timeseries: Animation by David Fisher (MD-DE-DC WSC)

Day 23, Timeseries: Tiles by John Mullaney (NE WSC)

Day 23, Timeseries: Tiles by Margaux Sleckman (IIDD)

Day 27, Uncertainties: Future by Jeremy Diaz (IIDD)

The code behind these charts is available on github at https://github.com/USGS-VIZLAB/chart-challenge-22 .

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