Tennis and Data Storytelling

Let's look at a fine example of data storytelling comparing rising tennis star Carlos Alacaraz with Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic.

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Dinuraj Sugumaran
August 02, 2023

Welcome to this week's Five Data Points.

I'm Dinuraj, and I want to share with you five interesting articles I've read this week that I believe will be valuable to you.

1 - A fine example of data storytelling

Carlos Alcaraz vs. The Big 3

A visual data comparison of how the rising tennis star measures up against Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic.

2 - How do we know what story to tell?

Exploratory Data Analysis: Unraveling the Story Within Your Dataset

3 - Data stories are visualisation driven - an exploration of options in python

Building Interactive Data Visualizations with Python — The Art of Storytelling

4 - Oracle’s MySQL Lakehouse

This lakehouse is the newest addition to MySQL HeatWave, a cloud service combining transaction processing, analytics, machine learning, and ML-based automation into a single MySQL database.

Oracle Announces GA of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse

5 - If you’re in the market for OCR…

Optical character recognition (OCR) is extraction of text from images such as scanned documents or photos.

OCR in 2023: Benchmarking Text Extraction/Capture Accuracy

I hope these articles enriched your thinking with fresh perspectives and deeper insight. Let me know if any of the articles especially resonate with you, or you have topics that you want explored further.

If you found any value in this at all, do pass it along to your friends and colleagues who you think might benefit from it.

Thanks for joining me on this journey of expanding our knowledge about data. I'll see you again next week with more to learn.

Dinuraj Sugumaran