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    The BBC has a gorgeous documentary series that started yesterday — Britain from…

  • Watch the Rise of Gasoline Retail Prices, 1993 – 2008

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    “What do the data look like for gasoline prices?” The prices go up, then down, then up, down, up…

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    Remember SimCity 2000? That was a great game. That was probably the last…

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    Lee Byron, Amanda Cox and Matthew Ericson of the New York Times graphics…

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    Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger, has…

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    Software, Visualization

    A new version of Flare, the data visualization toolkit for Actionscript (which means…

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    Through the Internet, sharing data has — you know what, I’m not even…

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    Data Art

    Barcodes. We all know what they look like. They’re the black stripes that…

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