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    Stay safe, Florida.…

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    The Simpsons is in its 27th season. That’s a lot of d’ohs. Todd…

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    Artist Nicholas Rouguex visualized some musical scores in his project Off the Staff.…

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    In an update to his two-party map, political scientist David Sparks shows the…

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    Statistical Visualization  /  basketball, Polygraph, sports

    Picking basketball players for a professional team is no easy task. College and…

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    The general public kind of knows about data privacy issues. But not really.…

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    We know that income increased by a lot in 2015, but for who?…

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    How to Visualize Proportions in R

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    There are many ways to show parts of a whole. Here are quick one-liners for the more common ones.

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    Using data from their Washington Post-ABC News polling, the Washington Post compares shifting…

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    Thermal cameras, which use infrared to detect heat, provide images of temperature. Firefighters…

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    Nate Cohn for the Upshot provides a statistics lesson in the context of…

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    But not every group’s median income increased by the same amount.

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