2014

Hiding a pregnancy from advertisers

Statistics / marketing, pregnancy, target

You probably remember how Target used purchase histories to predict pregnancies among their…
Interactive visualization used as music video

Data Art / George and Jonathan, music

George & Jonathan used an interactive audio visualization for their recent album George…
Combatting the Obsession with New Tools

Software / learning, Michal Migurski

Michal Migurski thinks about finding the right job for the tool rather than…
Learn regular expressions with RegExr

Apps / regular expression

Learning regular expressions tends to involve a lot of trial and error and…
Lawmaking through the House and Senate visualized

Network Visualization / government, lawmaking

Researchers at the University of Washington’s Center for American Politics and Public Policy…
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Detecting and Plotting Sequence Changes

Tutorials / changes, R, time series

Change detection for a time series can be tricky, but guess what, there’s an R package for that. Then show the results in a custom plot.
Audio visualizer made with matrix of fire

Data Art / fire, music

The Pyro Board is a matrix of 2,500 flames that have controllable intensity,…
Detailed map of baseball fandom →

Maps / baseball, facebook, Upshot

For the past couple of sports seasons, Facebook mapped the most liked team…
PourOver allows filtering of large datasets in your browser

Software / database, New York Times

The New York Times released PourOver, a library that lets you do database-like…
Where people bike and run, worldwide

Maps / biking, running, Strava

Remember those running maps I made with limited data from RunKeeper? Strava, which…
The Change My Son Brought, Seen Through Personal Data

Data Underload / birth, changes, featured, life, time series

I combed through personal data that I’ve actively and passively collected since early graduate school to see how life is different now with a 6-month old.
The Upshot, a data-centric site from The New York Times launched

News / New York Times, Upshot

We heard a little bit about The Upshot last month. Now we get…
Music preference by region

Maps / music

Movoto mapped music preference for various genres, across the United States.
We calculated…
How people die in America

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, mortality

Matthew Klein for Bloomberg View explored mortality in America through a slidedeck of…
Where nobody lives

Maps / census, population

We’ve seen the map of where everyone lives. Now here’s the reverse of…
A principal component analysis step-by-step

Statistics / principal component analysis

Sebastian Raschka offers a step-by-step tutorial for a principal component analysis in Python.…
Analysis of Bob Ross paintings

Statistics / Bob Ross, FiveThirtyEight, Walt Hickey

As a lesson on conditional probability for himself, Walt Hickey watched 403 episodes…
Weird stacked area map thing

Ugly Charts

This chart-map-looking thing from Nightly News is making the rounds, and it’s not…
Mapping a century of earthquakes →

Projects / earthquake, R

Earthquakes are in the news a lot lately. A quick search shows a…
Five decades of warm and cold weather anomalies

Statistical Visualization / Enigma, weather

This year’s polar vortex churned up some global warming skeptics, but as we…

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