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  • Graphing all the music

    Statistics  /  music, Spotify

    Glenn McDonald attempts to graph the musical space in its entirety on a…

  • Election forecast tracker

    Statistics  /  election, FiveThirtyEight

    FiveThirtyEight published their election forecast tracker this week, and it’s a beaut. It…

  • Growth of cities, going back 6,000 years

    Maps  /  growth, urbanism

    Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma and Karen C. Seto compiled a dataset of urban…

  • D3 4.0 released

    Software  /  d3js, Mike Bostock

    I typically don’t care much about code releases, but every interactive chart I…

  • Shifting Incomes for American Jobs

    Data Underload  /  income, jobs

    For various occupations, the difference between the person who makes the most and the one who makes the least can be significant.

  • Gender equality in the movies, a screenplay analysis

    Statistics  /  gender equality, movies

    Hollywood has been talking gender equality in the movies more than usual lately,…

  • Another Data Point On the Way

    Site News

    We have another data point on the way, so it might suddenly go…

  • Procedurally generated spaceships

    Data Art  /  Blender, procedural, spaceship

    Video game developer Michael Davies provides a Blender script to procedurally generate pretty…

  • Sci-Fi short film scripted by machine learning algorithm

    Data Art  /  machine learning, movie

    Filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin fed a machine learning algorithm with…

  • Emoji semantic space

    Statistics  /  emoji, neural network

    Dango is an Android app that predicts relevant emojis as you type. Xavier…

  • What happened at Pulse in Orlando

    Infographics  /  narrative, Orlando, Pulse

    The Tampa Bay Times takes you through a 3-D model of Pulse Nightclub…

  • Who Still Smokes?

    Data Underload  /  health, smoking

    Two decades out from the first statewide ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces, here’s who still smokes.

  • We spend more at restaurants than at grocery stores

    Statistical Visualization  /  eating, Quartz, spending

    For decades, Americans spent more money at the grocery store than at eating…

  • Motion capture dance

    Data Art  /  dance, motion capture

    Really fun. “Motion capture, procedural animation and dynamic simulations combine to create a…

  • Nearly impossible to predict mass shootings with current data

    Statistics  /  probability, shootings

    Even if there were a statistical model that predicted a mass shooter with…

  • U.S. gun deaths rate is an outlier

    Statistical Visualization  /  guns, mortality

    If you look at gun death rates for other western countries and adjust…

  • Firearms Dealers vs. Burgers, Pizza, and Coffee

    Data Underload  /  firearms

    As of May 2016, there were 64,432 licensed firearms dealers and pawnbrokers, which got me wondering how that compares to other businesses.

  • Americans are Growing Bigger

    Data Underload  /  health, nutrition, obesity

    We keep getting bigger. Watch overweight and obesity rates move up over several decades.

  • Voting habits for various demographic groups

    Infographics  /  demographics, election, Upshot

    Voter turnout and political leanings for various demographic groups play an important role…

  • A map about the people who live there

    Visualization

    Geographers Seth Spielman and Alex Singleton used something called “geodemographic classification” to classify…

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