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  • Small multiples for NBA game differentials

    Statistical Visualization  /  basketball

    Adam Pearce charted minute-by-minute point differentials for NBA games during the 2014-15 season.…

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    Yahoo News feed dataset for researchers →

    Data Sources  /  link, Yahoo

    A big ol’ dataset on interaction with the list of news items on the homepage.

  • Link

    Grid map showdown →

    Design  /  grid map, link

    A quantitative look at which US grid layout is best.

  • Game: Guess the correlation

    Statistics  /  correlation, game

    Guess the Correlation is a straightforward game where you do just that, and…

  • Sum of life’s parts

    Data Art  /  life expectancy, time use

    What if you relived life’s activities in big clumps? Thirty years of sleeping…

  • Same source, different styles →

    Infographics  /  comics

    Jaakko Seppälä drew ten comic characters, each in its original style and in…

  • Satellite time-lapse of Earth

    Maps  /  globe, satellite

    Charlie Loyd, who works with satellite imagery at Mapbox, put together a 12-second…

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    Little boxes →

    Design  /  link, medium

    It must be that time of year again when practitioners try to define visualization. It’s a medium. It’s continuous.

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    Experimentation with globes in Blender 3D →

    Software  /  globe, link

    There’s also a collection of video tutorials on how to use QGIS to greater effect.

  • Amanda Cox is new editor of The Upshot

    News  /  Amanda Cox, Upshot

    So great and well-deserved.

  • Playing with fonts using neural networks

    Statistics  /  font, neural networks

    Erik Bernhardsson downloaded 50,000 fonts and then threw them to the neural networks…

  • Missing 11th of the month

    Statistics  /  calendar, xkcd

    David Hagan looked closer at why the 11th of the month appeared to…

  • Counting your days left with emoji

    Infographics  /  life expectancy

    While we’re on the topic of life expectancy, Tim Urban of Wait But…

  • Kaggle Datasets for a place to converge on public data

    Data Sources  /  Kaggle, open data

    Kaggle just opened up a Datasets section to download and analyze public data.…

  • US Census Bureau open source

    Software  /  Census Bureau, government, open-source

    It took forever and it’s way overdue, but the United States Census Bureau…

  • How You Will Die

    Data Underload  /  life expectancy, mortality

    So far we’ve seen when you will die and how other people tend to die. Now let’s put the two together to see how and when you will die, given your sex, race, and age.

  • Nerdy Powerball FAQ

    Statistics  /  lottery

    The Powerball FAQ was most likely written by a slightly annoyed statistician. You’d…

  • Punctuation only in literary works

    Data Art  /  literature, Nicholas Rougeux, punctuation

    What do you get if you take famous literary works, strip out all…

  • Data on people who went to ER for wall-punching

    Data Sources  /  health, injury

    Keith Collins for Quartz ran some quick numbers for people who visited the…

  • NYPL public domain data

    Data Sources  /  NYPL, public domain

    The New York Public Library just made over 180,000 digital items in the…

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