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  • Math and bad drawings

    Miscellaneous  /  blog, math

    Ben Orlin likes math and teaching. He’s bad at drawing. He has a…

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    Small Multiples in R

    Tutorials  /  R, small multiples

    Make a lot of charts at once, line them up in a grid, and you can make quick comparisons across several categories.

  • The Numbers Game on National Geographic

    Statistics  /  Jake Porway

    Jake Porway, the founder of DataKind, has a new show on the National…

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    Selections in D3

    Software  /  D3, JavaScript, link

    Mike Bostock continues to beef up the documentation and tutorials for D3. This one for selections.

  • Insecurities of age through the eyes of Google Suggest

    Miscellaneous  /  age, Google, video

    In this straightforward video, Marius Budin offers a look at our insecurities as…

  • A thorough Facebook analysis by Stephen Wolfram

    Statistical Visualization  /  facebook, Wolfram

    Stephen Wolfram analyzed the Facebook world, based on anonymized data from the Wolfram|Alpha…

  • Binify for hexagon binning in Python

    Software  /  hexbin, Python

    As an alternative to dot density maps, Binify by Kevin Schaul allows you…

  • Stop motion video: Food you can buy for $5 in different countries

    Infographics  /  finance, food, video

    This stop motion video from BuzzFeed shows how much food you can buy…

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    Visualization as Process →

    Visualization  /  Jer Thorp, link

    Jer Thorp describes visualization as process rather than a tool or a product. “Please visualize our data.”

  • Flowchart for movie time travel →

    Infographics  /  flowchart, humor, movies

    Mr. Dalliard provides this handy flowchart to organize time travel movies. And yes,…

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    What your zip code reveals about you

    Statistics  /  link, privacy

    What your zip code reveals about you. More on data brokers and how advertisers and businesses use your information to sell you stuff.

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    On Maps with Michal Migurski

    Maps  /  link, Michal Migurski

    Michal Migurski talks online mapping on the Data Stories podcast. Some history and current technologies. Skip to about 15 minutes in to get to the meat.

  • Orbiting planets found by NASA Kepler mission

    Infographics  /  Jonathan Corum, New York Times, space

    The Kepler mission by NASA has discovered more than 100 planets that orbit…

  • Shot charts show evolution of Lebron James

    Maps  /  basketball, LeBron James, shot chart

    With the start of the NBA playoffs tomorrow, it’s worth coming back to…

  • Time-lapse: Package shipped with a hidden camera

    Data Art  /  shipping, time-lapse

    Designer Ruben van der Vleuten was curious about the shipping process, so he…

  • Fictional villains chart

    Visualization  /  cartoon, humor

    No comment necessary. [Thanks, Tom]…

  • Flexible data

    Guides  /  data literacy

    Data is an abstraction of something that happened in the real world. How…

  • Wealth distribution in America

    Infographics  /  finance, video

    This video clearly describes the distribution of wealth in America using a set…

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    Crosslet

    Maps  /  Crossfilter, D3, JavaScript, Leaflet, link

    Crosslet is “a free small (22k without dependencies) JavaScript widget for interactive visualisation and analysis of geostatistical datasets.” It’s a combination of Crossfilter, Leaflet, and D3.

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    500K degree

    Statistics  /  education, link

    A prediction on the cost of a college degree in 2030. Interesting, although the model is simplistic, namely it assumes tuitions will never level off (if just for a little while) and when no one can afford tuition, there’s going to be more change. Plus the Internet is changing things.

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