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  • Science fiction starships, an extensive size comparison

    Infographics  /  fiction, spaceship

    A while back we saw a size comparison of random spaceships. That one…

  • Great Britain recreated in Minecraft

    Maps  /  Minecraft, Ordnance Survey

    The Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain, mapped 220,000 square…

  • Searching for other Earths

    Maps  /  Kepler, space

    In a step-by-step narrative, produced by Adam Becker, MacGregor Campbell and Peter Aldhous…

  • Impressive exploration of projection mapping

    Data Art  /  installation, projections

    Projection mapping is the art of using physical objects as display surfaces and…

  • The Most Unisex Names in US History

    Data Underload  /  names

    Moving on from the most trendy names in US history, let’s look at…

  • Planet and moon resizer

    Infographics  /  interactive, space

    It can be difficult to imagine the scale of planets and moons, because…

  • Tracking criminal movements and predicting hot spots

    Statistics  /  crime

    In the latest SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Chaturapruek, et al. describe modeling…

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    7 command-line tools for data science

    Software  /  command-line, link

    A quick list of command-line tools to putz around with data.

  • Acetaminophen availability around the world

    Visualization  /  acetaminophen, health, ProPublica

    Probublica has a detailed piece on the potential overuse of acetaminophen, commonly known…

  • A visual explanation of Simpson’s Paradox

    Statistics  /  Simpson's Paradox

    When you look for overall trends, you often poke around the data in…

  • OpenStreetMap, the work of individuals visualized

    Maps  /  OpenStreetMap

    In the continued series of meta-data-driven maps, OpenStreetMap shows the work of individuals…

  • Dialect quiz shows where others talk like you do

    Statistics  /  quiz, vernacular

    North Carolina State statistics graduate student Joshua Katz already mapped dialect across the…

  • Easier Census data browsing with CensusReporter

    Apps  /  census

    Census data can be interesting and super informative, but getting the data out…

  • New data jobs this month

    Job Board

    It’s been just under a month since the Job Board went up, and…

  • Sasquatch sightings

    Maps  /  Joshua Stevens, sasquatch

    Josh Stevens, a PhD candidate at Penn State, mapped 92 years of sasquatch…

  • D.C. building heights study

    Visualization  /  urban planning, Washington Post

    Emily Chow and Gene Thorp for The Washington Post explored the change in…

  • Excel paintings

    Software  /  art, Excel

    Tatsuo Horiuchi wanted to learn something new before retiring, so he bought a…

  • Fashion fingerprints →

    Visualization  /  fashion, New York Times

    In a collaborative effort at The New York Times, a Fashion Week browser…

  • How you know you’re in an upscale neighborhood

    Miscellaneous  /  analog, gas

    By way of reddit, analog traces, or as they’re more commonly known: dirt.…

  • Game map from Grand Theft Auto 5

    Maps  /  game

    With just five days left until Grand Theft Auto 5 is out, a…

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