Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, looked at how rebounds work in…
2014
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How basketball rebounds work
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Equal population mapper
We know that there are more people per square mile in some places…
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Road grid orientation in major cities
This is what you get when you group streets by their geographic orientation…
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How to Make Interactive Linked Small Multiples
Small multiples are great, and the right interactions can make them even better. A primer and a how-to.
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Geographic smell maps
Kate McLean, a PhD candidate in Information Experience Design at the Royal College…
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10,000 League of Legends matches, all at once
League of Legends is an online, free-to-play game that pits two teams of…
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Fallacy of point-and-click analysis
Jeff Leek touches on concerns about point-and-click software to find the insights in…
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Ebola spreading, a simulation
As a way to understand the deadliness and spread of Ebola, the Washington…
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Skateboard physics
Aatish Bhatia, a recent physics PhD, describes the forces involved to do a…
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Interracial and same-sex marriage parallels
xkcd doing what xkcd does. Randall Munroe charts a brief timeline of interracial…
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Tracking online ads
We browse online, we see ads, and we buy stuff. The better-targeted the…
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Why pursue a PhD
Philip Guo provides three practical reasons on why it’s worth pursuing a PhD.…
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Deviations from the mean
As a way to bring context to the rarity of the 18-inning baseball…
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Real cities drawn as fantasy maps
Remember that time you were sitting by the fire reading The Lord of…
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Ditch Excel and format your data with csvkit
I thought I linked to csvkit a while ago, but apparently not. If…
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Big chicken
From Vox and research from Zuidhof et al., chickens are quite big these…
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Beer family tree
With Anheuser-Busch InBev rumored to have an interest in acquiring SABMiller and SABMiller…
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Multivariate Beer
Can you experience data? Sometimes visualization gets you part of the way there, putting data into context, serving as a trigger for your memory, and all that. But only so much can happen through the computer screen.
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A simulation of the traveling salesman problem
In a nutshell, the traveling salesman problem is as follows: “Given a list…
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Open source mapping lab
Mapzen focuses on building open source mapping components for developers.…