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  • Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America, Interactive Edition Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America, Interactive Edition

    The animated map starts slow with the first location in Arkansas in 1962 and then spreads like a wildfire. When did your nearest Walmart open?
  • FlowingData Cited in Forbes Magazine? FlowingData Cited in Forbes Magazine?

    Whaaa? Cool beans. …
  • What Do People Want to Do With Their Lives? What Do People Want to Do With Their Lives?

    43 Things is a goal-setting community where people set goals, cheer each other on, and connect with others who are trying to achieve the same thing. Even if you're not …
  • U.S. Census Bureau’s 2008 Statistical Abstract - Looking at America’s Data U.S. Census Bureau’s 2008 Statistical Abstract - Looking at America’s Data

    The U.S. Census Bureau released their 2008 Statistical Abstract, the National Data Book, not too long ago (um, like in January). There are state rankings and data in 30 categories …
  • World Internet City-to-City Connections and Density Maps World Internet City-to-City Connections and Density Maps

    Chris Harrison put together a series of Internet maps that show how cities are interconnected by router configuration. Similar to Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns, Chris chose to map only the …
  • Six Years of Piracy Data Available for Download - Shiver Me Timbers Six Years of Piracy Data Available for Download - Shiver Me Timbers

    Photo by mumelopics I stumbled across this dataset covering piracy of Oscar-nominated films over the last 6 years and a short analysis. Despite the Academy's efforts to crack down …
  • 10 Largest Data Breaches Since 2000 - Millions Affected 10 Largest Data Breaches Since 2000 - Millions Affected

    In light of the MySpace photo breach (due to their negligence) a couple of months ago, I got to wondering about other recent data breaches. It turns out Attrition.org keeps …
  • A World of Information - United Nations Data Just Became Accessible A World of Information - United Nations Data Just Became Accessible

    For our Humanflows project, we used the United Nations Common Database for our demographic numbers. Anyone who has used the common database knows that it's not especially user-friendly. You have …
  • Estimate Financial Impact of Risk and Uncertainty for a Living Estimate Financial Impact of Risk and Uncertainty for a Living

    I stumbled across a data table from the Social Security Administration that shows the probability of death. It's an actuarial life table estimating the probability that you will die within …
  • Rambo Kill Counts From Parts I, II, III, and IV Rambo Kill Counts From Parts I, II, III, and IV

    I don't think I've seen a single Rambo all the way through nor do I remember the premise of any of the movies, but I still found these kill counts …
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