Predicting Eurosong with GooglePredicting Eurosong with Google
and data visualisationand data visualisation
December 18
2017
A WEIRD MAP TELLING THE STORY
Maarten
Lambrechts
Datascience
Leuven
Morphing geojson polygons into rectangles
GEO2RECT
Tools for smoother shape animations
Flubber
Take aways
Google Trends *can* be
useful
What we can learn from the epic failure of Google Flu Trends
Try new visualisations...
...but guide your audience
into them
Things escalate quickly
Leuven is the Chinatown of
Belgium
Project:
googletrends.github.io/eurosearch-song-contest
Making of:
www.maartenlambrechts.com/2017/05/03/the-eurosearch-song-contest-making-of.html
Thanks!
WWW.MAARTENLAMBRECHTS.COM
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Predicting Eurosong with Google Predicting Eurosong with Google and data visualisation and data visualisation