2014

Shutterfly sent promotional emails that congratulate new parents and encourage them to send…

We’ve seen rankings for alcohol consumption per capita around the world. These tend…

The MIT Media Lab Playful Systems group is working on an experiment in…

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

Alyson Hurt for NPR Visuals describes how they make responsive data tables for…

After the popularity of The Upshot’s baseball fandom map, it’s no surprise the…

This is fun. Tyler Vigen wrote a program that attempts to automatically find…

“Type I” and “Type II” errors, names first given by Jerzy Neyman and…

Using baby name data from the Social Security Administration, Brian Rowe made this…

Hadley Wickham offers a detailed, practical guide to finding and removing the major…

Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan promises a fun, non-boring introduction to statistics that…

Artist Scott Kildall generates what he calls World Data Crystals by mapping data…

Ben Moore was curious about overrated and underrated films.
“Overrated” and “underrated” are…

While we’re on an R kick, Hilary Parker described how to create an…

Following the lead of JavaScript for Cats by Maxwell Ogden, Scott Chamberlain and…

Matt Daniels compared rappers’ vocabularies to find out who knows the most words.…

Isoscope, a class project by Flavio Gortana, Sebastian Kaim and Martin von Lupin,…

Because Game of Thrones. Max Fleishman and Fernando Alfonso III for The Daily…

In light of the Donald Sterling brouhaha, Amanda Cox for The Upshot put…