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    Last week I found out that the FDA has a feed for all…

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    Network Visualization  /  drugs, mexico

    I’m not entirely sure what we’re looking at here, other than relationships between…

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    Statistical Visualization  /  311, New York, streamgraph

    Wired, in collaboration with Pitch Interactive, has a look at complaints called in…

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    There was a problem on Expedia where a lot of people were choosing…

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    People approach data in different ways, especially across different fields. When you’re presented…

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    Statistical Visualization  /  facebook, relationships

    For his book The Visual Miscellaneum, David McCandless, along with Lee Byron, had…

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    Katy Börner, professor of information science, catalogs visualization and science in Atlas of…

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    Statistical Visualization  /  economy, government

    John Palmer has a look at the past 100 years of government and…

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    Statistical Visualization  /  interactive, pew

    Every year the Pew Research Center asks Americans what their top political priority…

  • Billionaires’ favorite politicians

    Network Visualization  /  contributions, election, forbes

    Jon Bruner for Forbes reports on billionaire contributions to politicians over the past…

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    In what seems to have become an expectation during all major events, a…

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    Data Underload

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    Daniel Shiffman, assistant professor at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, talks programming, computation,…

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