2016

2016.

Site News / annual review

That was fast. Just when you get used to dating with 2016, 2017…
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2016

Visualization / best-of

Here are my favorites for the year.
U.S. culture through TV show geography

Maps / facebook, television, Upshot

Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…
Where people use certain words

Maps / dialect, Quartz, Twitter

Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz mapped the top 100,000 words used in tweets. Search…
How Bayesian inference works

Statistics / Bayes

You might remember Bayes mentioned a few times in your introduction to statistics…
Interpolate your data for animation in R

Coding / animation, package, R

The tweenr package in R, by Thomas Lin Pedersen, helps you interpolate data…
Minimizing discrimination in machine learning

Statistics / discrimination, machine learning

From Google Research, a look at how discrimination in machine learning can lead…
Map of New York City shadows

Maps / New York Times, shadows

Shadows cast by buildings affect the feel and flow of a city, and…
Christmas Movies as Charts

Chart Everything / Christmas, movies

‘Tis the season.
Following the carbon dioxide

Maps / carbon, environment, NASA

This animated visualization from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows a model of…
Listen to radio around the globe

Maps / globe, radio

Here’s a fun piece called Radio Garden. It’s exactly what the title says.…
Charting All the Beer Styles

Data Underload

The Beer Judge Certification Program lists 100 styles of beer. Here’s a chart for all of them.
Houston flooding on the rise

Maps / climate change, environment, flood, ProPublica

Climate change is doing some weird stuff. What were once rare weather events…
Electoral college and state population representation weights

Infographics / electoral, grid map, Washington Post

By design, the electoral college and population don’t quite match up state-by-state. This…
Random states of America show changing election outcomes

Maps / borders, election

Geography and state borders play a big part in how elections play out…
Bed Sizes Around the World

Data Underload / bed

A king bed isn’t the same size everywhere. Sometimes, a king is a queen.
Handwriting with a neural network

Statistics / Google, handwriting, neural network

Continuing the neural network explorations, Shan Carter and team of Google Brain and…
New region boundaries based on commutes

Maps / commute

Geographers Alasdair Rae and Garrett Nelson used commuting data from the American Community…
Fast Food Menu of Calories

Data Underload / calories, fast food

How does the distribution of calories vary by fast food restaurant? Here’s a chart that shows all the menu items for ten of the biggest national fast food chains.
An average life as interpretive dance

Data Art / average, BuzzFeed, dance

BuzzFeed used interpretive dance to describe the average age of the milestones in…

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