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nicolas.kruchten.com

Nicolas Kruchten is a data visualization researcher based in Montreal, Canada.

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94 from 26 Sep 2010 to 30 Nov 2025
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now and then (1 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2025 1

  1. Vibe CADing an Interactive Data Physicalization

2023 1

  1. Metrics for Reasoning About the Usability of Visualization Notations

2022 4

  1. How Apple Names Things
  2. IEEE VIS 2022 Highlights
  3. NotaScope: my data visualization research-in-progress
  4. Montreal Python: A Fresh Look at the Python Data Visualization Landscape

2021 7

  1. Deliver Advanced Analytics Faster with Dashboard Engine
  2. Montreal Election Map, 2021 Edition
  3. PyData Global 2021: Python Dashboarding Shootout and Showdown
  4. PyData Global 2021: Why Interactive Data Visualization Matters for Data Science in Python
  5. IEEE VIS 2021: VisInPractice Panel on Tools of the Trade
  6. Introducing Dashboard Engine
  7. SciPy 2021: Data Visualization as the First and Last Mile of Data Science

2020 6

  1. Remaking Figures from Bertin's Semiology of Graphics
  2. Interview on IQT Podcast
  3. SciPy 2020: Tools Plenary Session
  4. Polytechnique Montréal: Plotly Express & Dash
  5. Beyond “tidy”: Plotly Express now accepts wide-form and mixed-form data
  6. Polytechnique Montréal: Plotly Express & Dash (en français)

2019 3

  1. Montreal Python: Plotly Express and Dash
  2. Introducing Plotly Express
  3. Polytechnique Montréal: Intro to Plotly

2018 4

  1. DSDT MTL: Intro to Dash
  2. Software Product and/or Professional Services Organizations
  3. Data Visualization for Artificial Intelligence, and Vice Versa
  4. Make Patterns Pop Out of Heatmaps with Seriation

2017 10

  1. Straightening Great Circles
  2. Data Visualization: it's a lot like Photography
  3. Introducing react-pivottable
  4. Getting Out the Vote for Valérie Plante
  5. Plotly.js and Crossfilter.js
  6. Pivot Table of All 2017 Montreal Election Results
  7. Map of All 2017 Montreal Election Results
  8. Interview on Using Reflection Podcast
  9. The Feedback Log: My Product Owner Workflow
  10. Université de Montréal: Introduction to Data Visualization

2016 9

  1. Mapping Car2Go Vehicle Availability in Montreal
  2. Notes on metro platform wayfinding
  3. Direction Angrignon: a different kind of subway map
  4. VisMtl: Graph Visualization vs Dimensionality Reduction
  5. Machine Learning Meets Economics, Part 2
  6. BIG 2016: The Machine Learning Database
  7. Concordia: Applied Auction Theory in Online Advertising
  8. HTML5mtl: PivotTable.js, an Open-Source Story
  9. Machine Learning Meets Economics

2015 15

  1. JS Open Day Mtl: JavaScript for Data Visualization
  2. Montreal R User Group: ggplot2 & rpivotTable
  3. PyCon Canada: Make Jupyter even more magical with cell magic extensions!
  4. Big Data Montreal: the Machine Learning Database
  5. Drag'n'Drop Pivot Tables and Charts, in Jupyter/IPython Notebook
  6. Election Pies
  7. Visualizing Family Trees
  8. RoboWar
  9. MTL Data: Montreal 311 Service Requests, an Analysis
  10. Montreal Python: Introducing the Machine Learning Database
  11. House Numbers on the Island of Montreal
  12. VisMtl #5 Roundup
  13. VisMtl: Canadian MPs 2012 Visualization
  14. The Programmatic Waterfall Mystery: Solved
  15. PAPIs.io 2014: Behind the scenes with a Predictive API

2014 10

  1. Interactive Subreddit Map with t-SNE
  2. Montreal Python: Unsupervised ML with scikit-learn
  3. Arbitraging an RTB Exchange
  4. VisMtl: Maps, Tools, Stories
  5. Visualizing High-Dimensional Data in the Browser with SVD, t-SNE and Three.js
  6. Big Data Week Montreal: From Big Data to Big Value
  7. A Modest Proposal for Ethical Ad Blocking
  8. Early Voting in the 2013 Montreal Election
  9. Zoomable Map for Montreal Election Results
  10. Ternary Plots for Election Results

2013 8

  1. Dot Map of 2013 Montreal Election Results
  2. Near-Real-Time Election Results Dashboard
  3. Peeking Into the Black Box, Parts 1-5
  4. JS-Montreal: PivotTable.js
  5. PivotTable.js
  6. Kernel Density Estimation and Analysis Tool
  7. Galapagos
  8. Volunteer Database for Santropol Roulant

2012 1

  1. My QR-Code Business Card

2011 6

  1. Real Time Bidding, Characterized
  2. Using make to Orchestrate Machine Learning Tasks
  3. Datacratic's Dataviz System
  4. Rancilio Silvia iPhone Remote Control
  5. Statsd, Graphite and Nagios
  6. Graphing Silvia Temperature on iPad

2010 9

  1. Silvia Mod Plan
  2. hackMTL Inbox Social Network Visualization
  3. Wanderer v2, with Wireless Wii Nunchuck
  4. Arduino Wanderer v1
  5. OpenMyEWB
  6. Context
  7. BitNorth 2009: myEWB
  8. Phptab
  9. Bridge-Optimizing Genetic Algorithm in Excel VBA