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  • Up all night to get data, a music video parody

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    Neuroscience students at the University of California, San Diego made a music video…

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    The Endomondo app lets you keep track of your workouts, namely running and…

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    As we’ve seen, there are more fatal car crashes during the weekend and…

  • Infographic satire

    Miscellaneous  /  humor, SMBC

    SMBC pokes fun at big “informational” graphics with a self-referencing graphic that displays…

  • Estimated coastlines if the ice melted

    Maps  /  environment, ice, National Geographic

    National Geographic imagined new coastlines (and the cities that would go under) if…

  • Roomba traces

    Data Art  /  long-exposure, Roomba

    We’ve seen what happens when you turn on a Roomba and track its…

  • Global status tracker for open government data

    Data Sharing  /  OKFN, open data

    The Open Knowledge Foundation launched the Open Data Index, so you can see…

  • Six decades of U.S. migration

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    We know that millions of Americans move to different counties every year, and…

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    Data Sources  /  cancer, health

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their most recent cancer data…

  • Accidental aRt

    Visualization  /  mistakes, R

    There comes a time late at night when your screen grows fuzzy and…

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    The Simply Statistics unconference just started a few minutes ago. Tune in live…

  • U.S. Open Data Institute

    Data Sharing  /  open data

    With a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, Waldo Jaquith pushes forward with…

  • Beauty of mathematics

    Data Art  /  math, video

    Betrand Russell: “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty —…

  • Digital attack map

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    A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack attempts to disable a site or…

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    Statistics  /  humor, xkcd

    Nice one, xkcd.…

  • Evolution of western dance music

    Network Visualization  /  animation, cartogram, dance

    A quick animated look on the evolution of western dance music, a mixture…

  • Degrees of separation between athletes from different sports

    Statistics  /  interactive, network, separation, Slate, sports

    You’ve probably heard of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. The idea is…

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    How to Display Text in R

    Tutorials  /  R, text

    Text can provide much needed context to traditional visual cues and can be used as a visual cue itself in some cases.

  • Most popular girl names by state

    Maps  /  Jezebel, names

    Reuben Fischer-Baum looks at the most popular girl names by state, over the…

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