2012

Impact of vaccines plotted over time shows obvious impact [via]

Cartograms in D3. Way smooth and interactive.

In 1979, Atari released Lunar Lander, a game whose object was to land…

Jer Thorp talks ethics in the data-as-new-oil metaphor:
[W]e need to change the…

Use k-means to find most used colors

CartoDB mapped every Rolling Stones tour from 1963 to 2007.
The Stones passed…

Write C++ code and easily connect with R for more speed [via]

A research paper version of Noah Kalina’s photo project by Timothy Weninger. Weninger…

Mike Bostock, Matthew Ericson and Robert Gebeloff for the New York Times explored…

When you plan pinball, the ball bounces around creating paths for itself and…

With Google’s driverless cars now street legal in California, Florida, and Nevada, Gary…

Detailed view of the underbelly of developing and launching maps for a large-scale publication

Images as statistical summaries

Shy data and introducing it to new audiences

Using the Google ngrams corpus, xkcd sized the days of the year based…

There’s a new tumblr in town that discusses process and points to work

Lots of data, but there’s resistance because looking at people through numbers seems wrong

Reverse engineers a vibrator to make it hands-free

Ben Welsh, Robert Lopez, and Kate Linthicum for the Los Angeles Times analyzed…

Now that we’re done giving thanks for all the intangibles like love, friends,…