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Detailed visualization of NBA shot selection
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Player shows tremendous growth towards Godzilla
TNT described NBA player Anthony Davis’ growth and accompanied the discussion with a…
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Baseline matters
Sweet, I guess Fox News had it right all along. I’m going to…
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Make your own detailed tweet maps
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Motion Exposure →
Motion Exposure, a photography project by Stephen Orlando, captures movement patterns with light.…
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Map print clothing
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Serial views
Like many, I’ve been listening to Serial every week, but I always just…
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Pie chart pyramid
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Cyber Monday Sale at the FlowingData Shop →
For today only, everything, and I mean everything (all THREE items) is on…
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Elemental cartograms
Along the same lines as the scaled Periodic Table, Elemental Cartograms by chemistry…
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A scaled Periodic Table of Elements
Inspired by a diagram from 1976, the Big Picture group at Google Research…
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Detecting your face
Sterling Crispin reverse engineered facial recognition algorithms and produced masks that only kind…
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Why you feel bloated after holiday meals →
Because that’s what happens when you eat ten full plates of turkey and…
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Friends in Space
Part celebration of Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman to fly into space,…
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Chart data quickly with open source Charted
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Pianogram
This is what you get when you cross a histogram and piano keys…
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English versus Chinese color descriptors
Color exists on a continuous spectrum, but we bin them with names and…
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Easier online choropleth maps with Landline
Despite the frequent use of choropleth maps online, they’re still kind of tricky…
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Alinea cooker
Alinea is a restaurant by Grant Achatz known for deconstructing flavors and piecing…
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Mapping With Shapefiles in R – Getting Started
Geographic data is often available as a shapefile, and there’s plenty of heavy software to get that data in a map. R is an open source option, and as a bonus, much of the work can be done in a few lines of code.