TDWI Articles

Data Stories: Using Visualization to Understand Analysis and Algorithms

These visualizations illustrate pathfinding, image recognition, and clustering algorithms.

 

Testing Travel Paths

STEM Lounge

This article on the website STEM Lounge animates several well-known algorithms and heuristics to show how they approach the classic traveling salesman problem.

 

Errors in Identification

Reddit

This animated GIF shows the results from a very simple image recognition algorithm in real time, demonstrating its limitations.

 

Creating Clusters

Chris Holmes

This blog post from data scientist Chris Holmes describes the creation of a simple k-means clustering algorithm and includes an animation that shows how it works.

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