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  • Social network of Earth’s plants and animals

    Network Visualization  /  environment, nature, video

    Plants and animals interact with each other to stay alive, which in turn…

  • The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization, Twice

    Site News  /  Daily Mail, theft

    Last month, I published an interactive visualization that simulates how and when you…

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    Infographics  /  government, Supreme Court, Upshot

    The Upshot has been doing a good bit on the Supreme Court dynamics…

  • Data scientists mostly just do arithmetic

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    Noah Lorang, a data scientist at Basecamp, explains the key for most companies…

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    Data Sources  /  emergency room, Hadley Wickham, R

    For my graphic on emergency room visits over time and the other on…

  • Math of crime and terrorism

    Statistics  /  crime, Hannah Fry, Numberphile

    Numberphile, from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, is one my new favorite YouTube…

  • Million to One Shot, Doc

    Data Underload  /  emergency room, health, rectum

    Between 2009 and 2014, there were an estimated 17,968 visits to the emergency room for things stuck in a rectum. Here are those things’ stories.

  • Predictive policing

    Statistics  /  crime, Marshall Project, police

    Crime and data have an old history together, but because there are new…

  • Who marries who, by profession

    Network Visualization  /  Bloomberg, marriage, relationships

    People with certain professions tend to marry others with a given profession. Adam…

  • International impact of China’s economic slowdown

    Infographics  /  China, economy, Guardian

    China’s economic slowdown means a major decline in imports from other countries, which…

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    How to Make an Interactive Stacked Area Chart

    Tutorials  /  d3js, JavaScript

    Stacked area charts let you see categorical data over time. Interaction allows you to focus on specific categories without losing sight of the big picture.

  • Suite of data tools for beginners, focused on fun

    Apps  /  beginners, csv

    Data can be intimidating and confusing for beginners, and as a result they…

  • Why People Visit the Emergency Room

    Data Underload  /  emergency room, health

    These are the top 250 products that people injure themselves on or with in a year.

  • Galaxy of cover songs

    Data Art  /  Interactive Things, music

    A fun one from Interactive Things that shows cover songs with a galaxy…

  • Taxi ride volume during Super Bowl key moments

    Statistical Visualization  /  Super Bowl, taxi

    A high percentage of Americans are glued to the television or party sample…

  • Wind prediction and potential power

    Maps  /  Moritz Stefaner, uncertainty, weather, wind

    As we use up current energy resources, it grows more important to look…

  • Campaign Finance API moves to ProPublica

    Data Sources  /  election, government, ProPublica

    Back in 2008, the New York Times rolled out a campaign finance API…

  • Catalog of criminal justice data

    Data Sources  /  crime, Sunlight Foundation

    There’s a lot of data on criminal justice — prison populations, crime rates,…

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    Small projects. Decide what you want to make first, and then figure out how to do it.

  • Role of empathy in visualization

    Design  /  empathy, Kim Rees, Mushon Zer-Aviv

    On the PolicyViz podcast, Kim Rees of Periscopic and Mushon Zer-Aviv of Shual…

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