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    Statistics  /  artificial intelligence, Google

    In an effort to get people more interested in and to learn about…

  • Glow map

    Design  /  cartography, glowing, John Nelson

    John Nelson has a knack for making maps that glow, where the base…

  • Showing uncertainty during the live election forecast

    Statistical Visualization  /  election, New York Times, uncertainty

    During the election, The New York Times showed a live gauge to show…

  • Generate color palettes automatically

    Apps  /  color

    Default color schemes are often horrible, but spending a lot of time putting…

  • Data Sketches, a monthly visualization matchup

    Data Art  /  collaboration, contrast

    Data Sketches, a collaboration between Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu, aims to visualize…

  • Resources to Find the Data You Need, 2016 Edition

    Guides  /  datasets, resources

    This is an update to the guide I wrote in 2009, which as it turns out, is now mostly outdated. So, 2016. Here we go.

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    Transitioning Map, Part 2: Refining the Format and Layout

    Tutorials  /  interpolation, R

    How to make a more readable and more visually accurate map, before you dive into the big transitions.

  • Peaks and valleys of presidential support

    Maps  /  election, Washington Post

    This is some fine map work by Lazaro Gamio and Dan Keating for…

  • Randomness of scientific impact

    Statistical Visualization  /  randomness, science

    A group of researchers wondered if there was a trend or predictability for…

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    Here we go.…

  • Textured SVG patterns in JavaScript

    Coding  /  fills, JavaScript, patterns

    In case you didn’t get the memo, pattern fills are back and so…

  • Nuclear war is on the ballot

    Infographics  /  election, nuclear

    Neil Halloran, creator of the interactive World War II documentary focused on deaths,…

  • Newspaper endorsements since 1980

    Data Sources  /  election, endorsement, newspaper

    Noah Veltman put together a history of newspapers’ presidential endorsements since 1980 for…

  • Majority minorities

    Sketchbook  /  animation, population, R, race

    We saw the changing percentage of white people in the United States and…

  • Percentage of white people

    Sketchbook  /  animation, population, race

    Below is the estimated percentage of white population in the United States from…

  • All the ways to map election results

    Maps  /  election, New York Times

    Every election, there’s a slew of election maps that come in all shapes…

  • Two Centuries of Population, Animated

    Data Underload  /  America, population

    A visual history of a growing United States.

  • Impact of Obamacare in maps

    Maps  /  insurance, Upshot

    It’s been three years since the Affordable Health Care Act. Margot Sanger-Katz and…

  • Sentiment analysis on Trump and Clinton faces during debate

    Statistics  /  election, sentiment, vision

    For anyone who watched the presidential debates, I think it was fairly obvious…

  • Vintage cartography and geography documentary, from 1961

    Maps  /  cartography, documentary

    This is too good not to watch. It’s a 1961 documentary on cartography…

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