Pornhub continues their analysis of porn viewing demographics in their latest comparison of…
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Porn views for red versus blue states
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Job Board, April 2014
Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or statistics? There are openings…
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Using Census survey data properly
The American Community Survey, an ongoing survey that the Census administers to millions…
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Bracket picks of the masses versus sports pundits
Stephen Pettigrew and Reuben Fischer-Baum, for Regressing, compared 11 million brackets on ESPN.com…
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High-detail maps with Disser
Open data consultancy Conveyal released Disser, a command-line tool to disaggregate geographic data…
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Independent coffee shops and community
As part of the You Are Here project from the MIT Media Lab,…
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Extract CSV data from PDF files with Tabula
Tabula, by Manuel Aristarán, came out months ago, but I’ve been poking at…
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Regional macrobrews
FloatingSheep pointed their Twitter geography towards beer (and wine).
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Fox News bar chart gets it wrong
Because Fox News. See also this, this, and this. [Thanks, Meron]…
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Big data, same statistical challenges
Tim Harford for Financial Times on big data and how the same problems…
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Open access to 20,000 maps from NYPL
The New York Public Library announced open access to 20,000 maps, making them…
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Planetary layer cake
From Cakecrumbs, a product that helps you learn while you eat: planetary layer…
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Bike share data in New York, animated
Citi Bike, also known as NYC Bike Share, is releasing monthly data dumps…
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Dead links on the Million Dollar Homepage →
Remember the Million Dollar Homepage from 2005? It sold ad space to anyone…
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Exponential water tank
Hibai Unzueta, based on a paper by Albert Bartlett, demonstrates exponential growth with…
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Centuries of European border changes
The Centennia Historical Atlas is a program that shows you border changes in…
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Smoking rates and income →
Based on a study on smoking prevalence from 1996 to 2012, a map…
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Reconstructing Google Streetview as a point cloud
Patricio Gonzalez Vivo, an MFA Design & Technology student, scraped depth from Google…
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Human heartbeat
Jen Lowe tracks her heart rate with a Basis watch, and she’s showing…
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How to Make Smoothed Density Maps in R
Too many points to plot often means obscured patterns in the clutter. Density maps offer a smooth alternative.