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  • Predicting riots

    Statistics  /  Hannah Fry, riots

    Hannah Fry and her group at University College London investigate data from the…

  • Movie sounds

    Data Art  /  humor, movies

    Moviesound is a goofy yet charming look at sounds in movies. Imagine sound…

  • Make your own US rivers and roads maps

    Maps  /  Mike Bostock, TopoJSON

    Inspired by Nelson Minar’s map of US rivers, Mike Bostock demonstrates how to…

  • What is wrong with these charts?

    Ugly Charts

    Whoa. There are a lot of things wrong with this chart. Gold star…

  • Getting started with visualization after getting started with visualization

    Guides  /  getting started, resources

    Here’s where to go next once you’ve covered the basics of visualization. When it’s time to actually start making things.

  • Economist spotting

    Data Points  /  Economist

    It was surprisingly hard for me to find a physical copy of this…

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    R spells for data wizards

    Software  /  link, R

    Thomas Levine provides a handful of useful tips for those getting started with R.

  • Transit times in NYC

    Maps  /  travel, WNYC

    As more New Yorkers move farther away from Manhattan, transit times grow in…

  • Visualizing uncertainty still unsolved problem

    Statistical Visualization  /  uncertainty

    Vivien Marx in Nature Methods:
    Data from an experiment may appear rock solid.…

  • Global migration and debt

    Network Visualization  /  9elements, economy

    Global Economic Dynamics, by the Bertelsmann Foundation in collaboration with 9elements, Raureif, and…

  • An eerie view of the linked city

    Maps  /  video games, Watch Dogs

    Watch_Dogs is a video game that imagines Chicago as a city where everyone…

  • Map shows how to say “beer” in Europe

    Maps  /  beer

    Feòrag NicBhrìde provides a handy map on how to say beer in European…

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    Statistics for Point Pattern Analysis in the Real World

    Statistics  /  link, spatial

    Lillian Pierson provides a summary of methods to measure distance and clustering in a spatial context.

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    Small Maps and Grids

    Tutorials  /  choropleth, point map, R, small multiples

    Maybe you want to make spatial comparisons over time or across categories. Organized small maps might do the trick.

  • Dictionary of Numbers extension adds context to numbers

    Statistics  /  context, human

    We read and hear numbers in the news all the time, but it…

  • Reading the data

    Data Points  /  book review, Economist

    The Economist covered a handful of visualization books in this week’s issue, and…

  • A people-centric view of your Gmail inbox

    Network Visualization  /  email, MIT Media Lab

    Immersion by the MIT Media Lab is a view into your inbox that…

  • Instagram cities

    Visualization  /  Instagram, Lev Manovich, photos

    The collaborative project Phototrails is a visual exploration of millions of Instagram photos,…

  • Yelp maps words used in reviews

    Maps  /  text, Yelp

    We typically think of Yelp reviews as aggregates on a restaurant or business-specific…

  • Mapping all the rivers in the United States

    Maps  /  water

    Inspired by Ben Fry’s All Streets map, which showed every road in the…

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