Glenn McDonald attempts to graph the musical space in its entirety on a…
2016
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Graphing all the music
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Election forecast tracker
FiveThirtyEight published their election forecast tracker this week, and it’s a beaut. It…
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Growth of cities, going back 6,000 years
Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma and Karen C. Seto compiled a dataset of urban…
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D3 4.0 released
I typically don’t care much about code releases, but every interactive chart I…
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Shifting Incomes for American Jobs
For various occupations, the difference between the person who makes the most and the one who makes the least can be significant.
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Gender equality in the movies, a screenplay analysis
Hollywood has been talking gender equality in the movies more than usual lately,…
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Another Data Point On the Way
We have another data point on the way, so it might suddenly go…
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Procedurally generated spaceships
Video game developer Michael Davies provides a Blender script to procedurally generate pretty…
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Sci-Fi short film scripted by machine learning algorithm
Filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin fed a machine learning algorithm with…
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Emoji semantic space
Dango is an Android app that predicts relevant emojis as you type. Xavier…
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What happened at Pulse in Orlando
The Tampa Bay Times takes you through a 3-D model of Pulse Nightclub…
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Who Still Smokes?
Two decades out from the first statewide ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces, here’s who still smokes.
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We spend more at restaurants than at grocery stores
For decades, Americans spent more money at the grocery store than at eating…
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Motion capture dance
Really fun. “Motion capture, procedural animation and dynamic simulations combine to create a…
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Nearly impossible to predict mass shootings with current data
Even if there were a statistical model that predicted a mass shooter with…
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U.S. gun deaths rate is an outlier
If you look at gun death rates for other western countries and adjust…
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Firearms Dealers vs. Burgers, Pizza, and Coffee
As of May 2016, there were 64,432 licensed firearms dealers and pawnbrokers, which got me wondering how that compares to other businesses.
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Americans are Growing Bigger
We keep getting bigger. Watch overweight and obesity rates move up over several decades.
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Voting habits for various demographic groups
Voter turnout and political leanings for various demographic groups play an important role…
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A map about the people who live there
Geographers Seth Spielman and Alex Singleton used something called “geodemographic classification” to classify…