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    Infographics  /  Christopher Nolan, flowchart, Inception

    Inception was a complex film, so there was understandably some confusion over the…

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    The Joy of Stats, hosted by Hans Rosling, is now viewable in its…

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    Maps  /  history, slavery

    In 1864, drawing on the most recent 1860 Census data, the United States…

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    Data Art  /  airport, display, Processing, weather

    eCLOUD, conceived by Aaron Koblin, Nik Hafermaas, and Dan Goods, displays weather data…

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    Statistics  /  lines, logic

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    Statistical Visualization  /  correlation, facebook, status

    The Facebook Data Team had a quantitative look at status updates by age…

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    Data Art  /  minimalist

    Antrepo wonders what it might be like if the labels on consumer products…

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    Infographics  /  scale, stars

    You’ve most likely seen a couple of views of the universe to provide…

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    Miscellaneous  /  animation, Google

    For the Google Demo Slam, three animators Tu+, Namroc, and Metcalf Anything put…

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    Statistical Visualization  /  Bundle, commute, spending

    I grew up in a relatively small city where it took no more…

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    Visualization  /  compositing

    We’ve all seen Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns, so we know that there’s a…

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    You might think that the only use for a map is to find…

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    Maps  /  census, demographics, nytimes

    Government data technology has felt behind the times the past few years with…

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    Maps  /  facebook, network

    While it was fun looking at the worldwide connections on Facebook, I thought…

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    Data Art

    William Huber, Tara Zepel, and Lev Manovich compare magazine pages of Science and…

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    Visualization  /  best-of

    Data visualization and all things related continued its ascent this year with projects…

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    Maps  /  facebook, network, R

    As we all know, people all over the world use Facebook to stay…

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