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  • Visualizing the U.S.-Mexican border

    Maps  /  border, satellite, wall

    There’s been a lot of talk about building a wall at the U.S.-Mexican…

  • Adjusting map data with Mapshaper

    Apps  /  mapping, shapefile

    Map making is a finicky challenge where oftentimes your map data — points,…

  • R graph gallery

    Coding  /  R

    One of best ways to learn visualization in any given software is to…

  • Ad spending for Clinton and Trump

    Statistical Visualization  /  election, New York Times, spending, streamgraph

    Adam Pearce for the New York Times charted ad spending for Clinton and…

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    Transitioning Map, Part 1: Mapping Irregular Data with Interpolation in R

    Tutorials  /  interpolation, R

    Rarely do you have evenly-spaced data across an entire geographic space. Here is a way to fill in the gaps.

  • Trump bar chart baselines are the worst baselines. Sad.

    Ugly Charts  /  baseline, election, Washington Post

    The Donald Trump campaign has a habit of highlighting poll results with a…

  • Interactive charts in R

    Coding  /  interactive, R

    Interactive charts in R are still so-so, but if you don’t mind giving…

  • Composite photos of airplanes in flight

    Data Art  /  compositing, flights, photography

    Photographer Mike Kelley visited airports around the world, took pictures of airplanes leaving,…

  • @HillaryClinton vs. @realDonaldTrump

    Data Underload  /  election, Twitter

    A comparison of the words unique to the candidates on Twitter.

  • Using clustering to make a color scale

    Statistics  /  color, d3js

    Choice of color scale can make a big difference in how the data…

  • Seeking solace in data

    Statistics  /  election, FiveThirtyEight, Wired

    I think many of us can relate to this during the odd election…

  • Visions penned by the 18th century king of Prussia

    Infographics  /  documents, sketches

    Past Visions, a visual archive of Frederick William IV’s, shows thousands of drawings…

  • Unemployment in America, Mapped Over Time

    Data Underload  /  unemployment

    Watch the regional changes across the country from 1990 to 2016.

  • Tron-style slippy map

    Maps  /  Mapzen, Tron

    Mapzen just released a Tron-style slippy map.
    Today we introduce TRON version 2…

  • How one man shifts national polls

    Statistics  /  election, polling, Upshot

    I love the statistics lessons coming out of the Upshot, in the context…

  • Tilegrams in R

    Software  /  cartogram, R

    Last month Pitch Interactive launched an online tool for tiled cartograms, or tilegrams…

  • All the Harry Potter spells, when they were used

    Statistical Visualization  /  fiction, Harry Potter

    I often stare far into the distance and ponder world’s greatest questions —…

  • Deep fried data

    Statistics  /  archive, machine learning, privacy

    Maciej Ceglowski, the creator of bookmarking site Pinboard, spoke at the Library of…

  • Century of Florida hurricanes

    Maps  /  Florida, hurricane, weather

    Florida has seen a lot of hurricanes come and go. Lazaro Gamio for…

  • Doctors’ political leanings

    Statistical Visualization  /  medicine, politics, Upshot

    Based on data from researchers at Yale, the Upshot charts party registration by…

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