2012

Having data is just the beginning

“Prices starting at $4,000” sounds so not worth it

Randal Heeb convinced a New York City judge that poker isn’t a game…

Five types, plus an endangered species; sized by party loyalty

Josh Cothran looked at who’s paid for healthcare over the past five decades,…

Using animation package, produce a lot of GIFs and string them together

As megafires in the Southwest are becoming the new normal, NPR reports in…

Not sure why some want to do everything in R, but here you go

Interview with artist Jer Thorp

Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, took an in-depth look at what…

Lev Manovich on painting data and the parallels between visualization and realist art. I like the metaphor. Although I’d argue that most data art does preserve relationships in the data.

Amazon used their book sales data to color a map red and blue.…

It’s not how big, but how you use it

Patterns over averages

Water Light Graffiti is an installation by Antonin Fourneau that lets you use…

Dating back to 1800s, made in 2005 [via]

Using DNA as a storage device, Harvard researchers managed to store one million…

Using OpenStreetMap tasking manager to recruit volunteers to help map expanding area

For the past ten years, researchers have been tagging hump back whales in…

NYT graphics having some fun with this one; maybe overcomplicated for some