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  • What Antarctica looks like underneath the ice

    Maps  /  environment, NASA

    Based largely on satellite data and the results of an airborne data collection…

  • Climate change described visually

    Maps  /  environment, video

    A video from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme explains global warming and projected changes…

  • MiseryMap of current flight delays and cancelations

    Maps  /  FlightAware

    FlightAware is a live flight tracker that lets you look up a flight…

  • FlowingData Gift Guide 2013

    Miscellaneous  /  gifts

    The holiday season came out of nowhere this year. Everyone put their lights…

  • Quantified breakup

    Self-surveillance  /  breakup

    A recently divorced woman is using her personal data — phone logs, emails,…

  • FlowingData Job Board, November 2013

    Job Board

    Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or statistics? There are openings…

  • Top reddits of all time

    Statistical Visualization  /  Reddit

    For the downtime post-turkey. James Trimble stuck the top 200 reddits of all…

  • Your life in jellybeans

    Data Art  /  life expectancy, Ze Frank

    Using the effective jellybean method, Ze Frank describes the finite time we have.…

  • The Baseline and Working with Time Series in R

    Tutorials  /  R

    A big part of statistics is comparisons, and perhaps more importantly, to figure out what to compare things to. Perspective changes with the baseline.

  • Where the public radio is

    Maps  /  interactive, public radio

    Andrew Filer mapped the reach of public radio stations in the United Stations,…

  • Super ZIP codes →

    Maps  /  economy, Washington Post

    The Washington Post looked at Super ZIP codes, a classification based on household…

  • Bokeh, a Python library for interactive visualization

    Software  /  Bokeh, Python

    Bokeh, a Python library by Continuum Analytics, helps you visualize your data on…

  • Spectrogram shows dialup modem handshake sounds

    Statistical Visualization  /  dialup modem, spectrogram

    Presented mostly for my fond memories as a grade schooler, with a fresh…

  • Global forest change

    Maps  /  environment, forestry

    Hansen, Potapov, Moore, Hancher et al. produced high-resolution maps of global forestry to…

  • Bart Simpson and the cone of ignorance

    Miscellaneous  /  humor, The Simpsons

    Nice. See also Lisa Simpson on the curve of knowledge. [via reddit]…

  • The Most Regional Names in US History

    Data Underload  /  names, Social Security Administration

    It was a challenge to choose a name for my son, someone who…

  • Bourbon family tree

    Infographics  /  bourbon, family tree, GQ

    Colin Spoelman for GQ illustrated an educated guess of the bourbon family tree.…

  • Databases for lazy people, a Python library

    Software  /  database, Python

    Friedrich Lindenberg and Gregor Aisch recently released dataset, a Python library to take…

  • Why traffic waves and congestion happen

    Infographics  /  interactive, KQED, traffic

    You’re on the freeway, traffic is moving along, and for no apparent reason…

  • Prediction of sexual orientation through Facebook friends

    Statistics  /  facebook, privacy, sexual orientation

    Carter Jernigan and Behram F.T. Mistree found that sexual orientation of an individual…

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