7.38.1 Top new questions this week

7.38.1.1 Animated bar chart race, a popular data visualization
7.38.1.2 Group points which on several straight lines
7.38.1.3 Automatic placement of legend box with Placed[] (equivalent to "best" in matplotlib)
7.38.1.4 How to add arc circular arrows in GeometricTransformation[]
7.38.1.5 unexpected StringCases behaviour inside function module
7.38.1.6 What does BodePlot actually calculate?
7.38.1.7 Function to remove self loops but preserve multiple edges in Graph
7.38.1.1 Animated bar chart race, a popular data visualization

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=257802

Recently I see more and more data-viz called "Animated bar chart race". Some random examples, and note, how smoothly and organically everything changes in these videos.: 
 
https://flourish.... 
[graphics] [dynamic] [data] [animation] [gif-format]
 
asked by Vitaliy Kaurov https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=13 13 votes
answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 13 votes
7.38.1.2 Group points which on several straight lines

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I have some points, they are distributed on three straight lines, how to group points on the same line? I have tried  FindCurvePath , but I got the wrong result. I ... 
[list-manipulation] [graphics] [computational-geometry]
 
asked by expression https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=7339 11 votes
answered by flinty https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72682 7 votes
7.38.1.3 Automatic placement of legend box with Placed[] (equivalent to "best" in matplotlib)

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=257927

When I create plots, I usually make a legend box which I then manually have to place within the plot using the Placed[] option. However, since it is manual, it means that I always need to adjust it or ... 
[plotting] [legending]
 
asked by a20 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=19631 7 votes
answered by kglr https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=125 8 votes
7.38.1.4 How to add arc circular arrows in GeometricTransformation[]

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I am using this code 
... 
[plotting] [graphics] [arrow] [circle]
 
asked by Martha97 https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=82112 6 votes
answered by Syed https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=81355 8 votes
7.38.1.5 unexpected StringCases behaviour inside function module

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First, Let use see 
 a = {"wx", "wy", "wz"}; 
AssociationThread[Flatten[StringCases[a, "w" ~~ d_ :> d]] -> a] 
 
gives 
<... 
[functions] [replacement] [scoping]
 
asked by matheorem https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=4742 6 votes
answered by Daniel Lichtblau https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=51 8 votes
7.38.1.6 What does BodePlot actually calculate?

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I'm using Mathematica v12.3 student edition, running on Windows 10 Home (AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics 2.38 GHz). 
I'm trying to get a Bode plot of an example function. I try to do it with the ... 
[plotting] [control-systems]
 
asked by Merro https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=82623 6 votes
answered by George Varnavides https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=41179 8 votes
7.38.1.7 Function to remove self loops but preserve multiple edges in Graph

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=question&id=257857

The function  SimpleGraph[]  removes both self-loops and multiple edges in the same vertices of a Graph. Is there a function that removes self-loops only? 
[graphs-and-networks]
 
asked by stathisk https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=9083 6 votes
answered by cvgmt https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=user&id=72111 5 votes