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A Survival Guide to Starting and Finishing a PhD
Tips on making it through, what I would tell my previous self going in, and advice on taking advantage of the unique opportunity that is graduate school. -
How to Animate Transitions Between Multiple Charts
Animated transitioning between chart types can add depth to your data display. Find out how to achieve this effect using JavaScript and D3.js. -
How to Make an Interactive Network Visualization
Interactive network visualizations make it easy to rearrange, filter, and explore your connected data. Learn how to make one using D3 and JavaScript. -
How to Visualize and Compare Distributions
Single data points from a large dataset can make it more relatable, but those individual numbers don't mean much without something to compare to. That's where distributions come in. -
Girls expected to live shorter lives in some counties?
We've seen life expectancy at the country and state levels, but the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation recently released life expectancy data at the county level. -
Gender wage gap, how much less women make than men
Three or four articles on the gender wage gap popped up on my radar last week, some focusing on the rise of women as the lead household earner and others on how much less women make. I took a look. -
Changing face of plastic surgery
Many people aren't happy with their face or body, and a proportion of those turn to plastic surgery to try... -
Why I want to quit cable
There are good reasons to cancel cable, but there were a few channels and programs that kept me on. When you look at it in dollars though, it's hard to justify the value for the cost. -
Where are the biggest box office movies (not) streaming?
After seeing Tristan Louis' list that tallied the streaming availability of 2011's top 100 box office hits, I was curious what it looked like graphically. -
Vehicles involved in fatal crashes
After seeing a map in The Guardian, I was curious about what other data was available from the National Highway Traffic Safety Association. It turns out there's a lot. -
The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011
I almost didn't make a best-of list this year, but as I clicked through the year's post, it was hard... -
On low-quality infographics
This has been sitting in my drafts folder for a few months. Figured I'd just hit publish and throw it... -
Best statistics question ever
The question is great. The resulting comment thread is epic. What's your answer? -
Life expectancy changes
I played around with D3 some more. This time I used data from The World Bank to look at life... -
Who does all the text messaging? Young adults by far.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project published the results of their texting study, showing that young adults text more... -
How do Americans spend their days?
One of my favorite data graphics is an interactive piece by The New York Times that shows how Americans spend... -
Visualize This: Spotted in the wild
It's been about a month since Visualize This came out, but it took a while for it to sink in.... -
Visualize This: Published
Right now, at this very moment, I have an actual physical book on my desk, with my name on it,... -
Where the aliens are flying their UFOs
I came across some UFO sightings data on Infochimps, from the National UFO Reporting Center, and it seemed like a... -
Largest data breaches of all time
As I'm sure you know, Sony has been having all sorts of data breach problems lately — namely a million...
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Data Points
Visualization that Means Something
Available: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Wiley
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