Data Stories: Using Visualization to Understand Analysis and Algorithms
These visualizations illustrate pathfinding, image recognition, and clustering algorithms.
- By Upside Staff
- November 18, 2020
![STEM Lounge](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2020/11/111820VizSTEMLounge.jpg?h=258&w=500&hash=2A4B609358420A39F39F97DD9A7E8CC3)
This article on the website STEM Lounge animates several well-known algorithms and heuristics to show how they approach the classic traveling salesman problem.
![Reddit](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2020/11/111820VizReddit.jpg?h=241&w=500&hash=8EDBDD3AD2E969220A93FBAE2F76C6E4)
This animated GIF shows the results from a very simple image recognition algorithm in real time, demonstrating its limitations.
![Chris Holmes](/-/media/TDWI/Upside/newsletters/2020/11/111820VizChrisHolmes.jpg?h=318&w=500&hash=DE9C6EAABF2F0EF9794A2CAA69D67AFF)
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.