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  • Statistics Done Wrong, a guide to common analysis mistakes

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    Alex Reinhart, a PhD statistics student at Carnegie Mellon University, covers some of…

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    The Weightless Project gives you another reason to use your Jawbone or Fitbit…

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    Checking out for the year. I assume most of you have already, and…

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    Looking to get a jumpstart on that new year’s resolution to find a…

  • Iron Maiden uses piracy data for tour locations

    Statistics  /  music, piracy

    When you hear “piracy data” and “music” in the same sentence, it usually…

  • Evolution of reddit in stacked areas

    Statistical Visualization  /  Reddit

    Computer science PhD student Randy Olson likes to analyze reddit in his spare…

  • Highway traffic reorganized by color

    Data Art  /  traffic

    In the video above, filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker reorganized midday traffic by color. No…

  • Military footprint

    Maps  /  military

    Similar to his collection of prison map snapshots, Josh Begley collected images of…

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    Statistics  /  data science, trends

    The relative interest in data scientist surpassed statistician this month. It was also…

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    Maps  /  environment, wind

    Remember the wind map of the United States by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda…

  • Network of subreddits

    Network Visualization  /  Reddit

    There are over 5,000 subreddits with plenty of overlap and similarities. Randy Olson…

  • Data and visualization year in review, 2013

    Visualization  /  annual review, best-of

    Visualization continues to mature and focus more on the data it represents than on novel designs and size. Let’s have a look back.

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    Visualization  /  advertising, flights

    Airports conjure thoughts of security, bag checks, and cramped spaces, and flights are…

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    The New York Times explored state gun bills since Newtown.
    In the 12…

  • Uncertain cartographies

    Maps  /  uncertainty

    Most people know the layout of their neighborhoods and some are good with…

  • Easy text classification

    Statistics  /  language, machine learning

    Text can be a great source of data, but it can be a…

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    Infographics  /  Fathom, Rocky

    Fathom Information Design watched all six Rocky movies, classified segments into dialogue, training,…

  • Growth in civic tech

    Network Visualization  /  civic, Fathom, Knight

    Fathom Information Design, in collaboration with the Knight Foundation and Quid, visualized the…

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    Infographics  /  humor

    Just for kicks, Jimmy Chen plotted artists on a subjective arrogance-vs-genius scale. Above…

  • Online habitats

    Network Visualization  /  clustering, communities

    Ekisto, by visual artist Alex Dragulescu, is an experiment in visualizing online communities…

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