Shazam is a service with an app that lets you point your phone towards some music to identify the name …
Want to increase the GDP? Easy. Let more immigrants in. Lena Groeger for ProPublica: In an analysis for ProPublica, Adam …
Amanda Shendruk for The Pudding analyzed how genders are represented differently in comic books, focusing on “naming conventions, types of …
Traditional detection algorithms use infrared heat as the main signal of a wildfire. The Firelight Detection Algorithm uses visible light …
Researchers attached electrodes to neurons in monkeys, showed them pictures of faces, and then reconstructed the faces reading brain waves. …
Sometimes it’s useful to animate the multiple lines instead of showing them all at once.
Using the thermal signature, NASA provides a detailed view of the break: The false-color image was captured by Landsat’s Thermal …
This explainer video by Vox on the oil patterns on bowling lanes was oddly fascinating. The varying degrees of oil …
Mimi Onuoha on the importance of paying close attention to the data collection process before making data-informed decisions: The conceptual, …
A giant iceberg broke off from Antartica. Like, really big. Quartz collected the comparisons made in various countries to make …
Using a century of data, we watch the shift of marital status in the United States.
Mean, median, and mode. These are the first things you learn about in your introductory statistics course. It’s often all …
It’s harder to make friends as you get older. There aren’t as many (forced) opportunities to find them and we …
The histogram is one of my favorite basic chart types, because it lets you quickly see the shape and distribution …
If it seems like every day you log in to Facebook, it’s someone’s birthday, you’re probably not that far off.
There is a fixed number of minutes during the day. Where do parents usually draw the time from?
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Many charts don’t tell the truth. This is a simple guide to spotting them.
“Let the data speak” they say. But what happens when the data rambles on and on?
