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    Data Underload  /  Thanksgiving, turkey

    Happy Thanksgiving! Eat lots and lots and lots. Rest. Then eat more.…

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    How to Make Bubble Charts

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    Ever since Hans Rosling presented a motion chart to tell his story of the wealth and health of nations, there has been an affinity for proportional bubbles on an x-y axis. This tutorial is for the static version of the motion chart: the bubble chart.

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    Visualization

    In case you missed it, Girl Talk recently released his fifth album All…

  • How Twitter users balanced the budget

    Statistical Visualization  /  budget, nytimes

    In a follow-up to their puzzle to balance the budget, The New York…

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    Maps

    Political science PhD candidate David Sparks has look at the evolution of the…

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    Maps  /  choropleth, development, interactive

    In work with the American Human Development Project, Rosten Woo and Zachary Watson…

  • Target for charting excellence

    Design

    The scales for what qualifies as pretty and useful change depending on the…

  • A world of tweets

    Maps  /  Frog Design, HTML5, Twitter

    We’ve seen this sort of thing before, with tweets mapped and such, but…

  • Defining neighborhoods with map scribbles

    Maps  /  informal, neighborhood, scribbles

    TenderMaps brings an informal approach to highlighting the parts of neighborhoods:
    We wanted…

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    Infographics  /  age, interactive, quiz, USA Today

    In this interactive, USA Today guesses your age, based on what influenced you…

  • R is the need-to-know stat software

    Software, Statistics  /  forbes, R, statistics

    This Forbes post on the greatness that is R is being passed around…

  • Why network visualization is useful

    Network Visualization

    AT&T Labs’ Infoviz research group describes network graphs and their many uses:
    There…

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    Wikipedia’s annual fundraiser is in progress. If you haven’t noticed already, when you…

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    Software  /  cleaning, Google, refine

    When we first learn how to deal with data in school, it’s nicely…

  • The very first NYT election map

    Maps

    Matthew Ericson, deputy graphics director of The New York Times, dug through the…

  • Learn the rules of data graphics so you can bend them

    Design  /  guide, quote, Tufte

    If you take away anything from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, make…

  • You fix the budget puzzle

    Infographics  /  budget, game, nytimes

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  • Comparison of Republican and Democratic tax plans

    Statistical Visualization  /  bubbles, Rachel Maddow, taxes

    Lori Montgomery of the The Washington Post reports on the difference between the…

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    Data Art

    Geometric Death Frequency-141 by Federico Diaz is an algorithm-based sculpture at MASS MoCA,…

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