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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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