Well, pseudo heat maps anyway
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Scatter plots and heat maps in Illustrator →
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What 3-D pie charts are good for
3-D pie charts are never a good idea? Ha. You just got served.…
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Nigel Holmes influences →
Includes Thelonious Monk, Powers of 10, and some atlas
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Basketball shooting data →
An easy-to-download source used in the recent basketball court geographies [via]
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Profile of the Facebook Data Science Team
MIT Technology Review profiles the Facebook Data Science Team, described as a gathering…
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What Facebook Knows →
Profile of the data science team and their pot of gold
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River flow simulation
In Newcastle, there’s a floating tide mill building on the River Tyne. The…
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Designing An Amazing Infographic →
Would add analysis in there, but that never seems to be included
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10 seconds rule →
The notion that you have to understand a graph right away only applies to a certain kind of graphic
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Evolution of movie poster colors
We’ve seen a number of looks at movie poster cliches, but this is…
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Network of data visualization references
Developer Santiago Ortiz explores visualization references through Delicious tags and puts them in…
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Designing data →
It seems kind of out of place on the Typekit blog, but a pretty good rundown of the charting basics
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Bubble Chamber →
Impressive demos from Robert Hodgins’ talk at Eyeo, plus code on GitHub
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Geography of the basketball court, interactive edition
Remember geographer Kirk Goldsberry’s analysis of shot efficiency on the basketball court? Jeremy…
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Working in America over the decades
Information visualization firm Periscopic, in collaboration with GE, explores the makeup of the…
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Binning: An Alternative to Point Maps →
Avoid clutter caused by too many dots in one place
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Data Science Certificate →
For “real-life scenarios” [via]
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DataKind Goes Full-time →
With Jake Porway leading the way, there’s no doubt the blooming organization is headed for great things.
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When the world sleeps, based on Twitter activity
Twitter engineers Miguel Rios and Jimmy Lin explored tweet volumes in different cities…
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Losing American Community Survey would be ‘disastrous’
Many want to get rid of the American Community Survey, a Census program…