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    Coding  /  animation, color, d3js, link

    Gain a sense of direction from otherwise static connections.

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    Coding  /  d3js, link, mapping

    Nice projections for US states in D3.

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    Statistical Visualization  /  FiveThirtyEight, sumo

    Sumo has a long history that goes back centuries. Unlike most things that…

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    Apps  /  chartmaking, Quartz

    Last year Quartz announced Atlas, which was a place to find all of…

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    Statistical Visualization  /  Ed Hawkins, temperature, time series, weather

    Global temperature is on the rise, as most of us know. Ed Hawkins…

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    Infographics  /  Dalai Lama, emotion, Stamen

    Emotions are complex and only partially understood, yet such a force in how…

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    Data Underload  /  age, population

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    Infographics  /  sports, Washington Post

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    The Traveling Salesman Problem is a popular puzzle that asks for the shortest…

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    Infographics  /  Billboard, music, ranking

    The Year that Music Died from Polygraph is an animated timeline that shows…

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    Drawing Lines and Segments in R

    Tutorials  /  R

    Show connections and changes over time with start and end points.

  • Track what your government representatives are doing for you

    Data Sources  /  API, elections, government, ProPublica

    Taking over an old New York Times project, ProPublica re-launches Represent, which offers…

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    Data Underload  /  parenting, time use

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    Design  /  link, ProPublica

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    Statistical Visualization  /  education, NPR

    Wrapping up their week-long School Money project, NPR asks: Is there a better…

  • Lower socioeconomic status linked to lower education attainment

    Statistical Visualization  /  education, race, Upshot

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    Visualization  /  brain, words

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    Statistical Visualization  /  diet, food, health

    From the Open Data Institute, an interactive looking at diet data made available…

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    Maps  /  narrative, shipping

    We’ve seen maps for global shipping routes before, but this project — Ship…

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