2016

Generate your own fantasy map

Maps / fantasy

Martin O’Leary made a Twitter bot, Uncharted Atlas, that posts automatically generated fantasy…
DrawMyData lets you plot points manually and then download the data

Statistics / teaching

When you have graphs to draw or statistical concepts to teach, you need…
Michael Phelps race times since his first Olympics

Visualization / Michael Phelps, Olympics

That Michael Phelps. He is a crazy man, in the best possible way.…
Trump tweets from Android are angrier than from iPhone

Statistics / election, Twitter

Sometimes I check Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, as many find themselves doing and…
Streamgraph of Olympic medal wins

Infographics / New York Times, Olympics, streamgraph

Gregor Aisch and Larry Buchanan for the New York Times visualized Olympic medal…
Household Types, Then and Now

Data Underload / households

Here’s how common each household type is and was — and how the makeup compares to a few decades ago.
Katie Ledecky domination charted

Infographics / Guardian, Katie Ledecky, Olympics

One of the best parts of the Olympics is watching an athlete from…
What makes the Olympic athletes great

Infographics / New York Times, Olympics

Rather than a focus on the events and their details, the New York…
Games to test your skillz against Olympians, from your computer

Infographics / games, Olympics, Wall Street Journal

The last couple of Olympics, news graphics desks went with gloriously detailed explainers…
Building a generator for stuff

Statistics / generator

There comes a time in every data scientist’s life when an idea for…
Practical tips for scraping data

Coding / NPR, scraping

It’s an unpleasant feeling when you have an idea for a project and…
Star Trek character network

Network Visualization / fiction, Star Trek

Star Trek fans rejoice. Mollie Pettit from Datascope Analytics visualized the interactions between…
An interactive look at handwriting recognition from 1960s

Infographics / handwriting

In the 1960s, the RAND corporation developed a handwriting recognition system using, well,…
Small percentage of Americans actually picked Clinton and Trump

Infographics / election, New York Times, percentage

Alicia Parlapiano and Adam Pearce for the New York Times elegantly show a…
One-year time-lapse of Earth

Maps / Earth, NASA, space, time-lapse

Time-lapse from space by NASA:
On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the…
Continental drift, from 240 million years ago to present

Maps / animation, continental drift, geology

Researchers modeled continental drift, going back 240 million years ago, on the scale…
What That Election Probability Means

Data Underload / election, probability

You’re going to see probability values mentioned a lot these next few months. Many people will misinterpret. But not you.
Camera really adds tens pounds

Infographics / photography, weight

Photographic evidence.
Searchable campaign finance data from the FEC

Data Sources / election, FEC, finance

Every four years, campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission peeks its…
Grid map shows shifting states

Maps / elections, Wall Street Journal

You’re likely familiar with the state grid map form used these days. Instead…

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