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  • Not Enough Lifeguards and Prison Libraries

    The Times

    Two more graphics — one ran on Sunday with a story investigating lifeguard…

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    Chris Jordan’s series, Running the Numbers: An American Portrait, just opened this weekend…

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    Statistical Visualization

    Wall Street Journal put up a nice little graphic showing the evolution of…

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    The Times

    For what seems like forever, Democrats have been trying to get Republicans to…

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    Data Sharing

    As the second day of the New York taxi strike begins over GPS…

  • 360 Variables Describing the United States

    Data Sources

    Order From Randomness has an extensive data collection featuring 360 variables describing all…

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    Statistics

    With more Many Eyes fun, Aron Pilhofer put in part 2 of his…

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    Ugly Charts

    Karl Broman has an amusing list of the top ten worst graphs found…

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    The Times

    Five of my graphics ran in the paper today in a special labor…

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    Exploratory Data Analysis

    On their new exploration section, Twitter blocks is available for viewing and use.…

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    Apps

    I’ve been back and forth on whether or not I wanted to post…

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    I’m not even going to pretend I know anything about how Statistics and…

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    Apps

    There was a post on The Times U.S. Open blog debating on the…

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    The Times

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    Data Sharing

    I don’t want my credit card numbers floating around, because then I’d be…

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    The Times

    A huge 8.0 earthquake shook Peru a few days ago killing at least…

  • U.S. News & World Report College Rankings are Now Available

    Data Sources

    The well-known college rankings are now available for your viewing pleasure. Whether the…

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    The Times

    Two hundred and fifty people died a couple of days ago in the…

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    Every now and then I indulge in a Big Mac meal from McDonald’s.…

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    Data Sharing

    I began my path of higher education at Berkeley as an Electrical Engineering…

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