One of my favorite childhood memories is the time I went camping and…
2017
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Time-lapse shows night sky at varying levels of light pollution
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10 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2017
It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year.
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Charting all the major California wildfires since 2000
Based on data from CAL FIRE, Erin Ross, for Axios, plotted California wildfires…
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Getty Center fire resistance
Fire spread over Los Angeles, but the famous art works in the Getty…
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Automatic label placement along path →
Noah Veltman refined his label placement method, particularly useful for area graphs.
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Family displacements through urban renewal
Hundreds of thousands of families were displaced in the 1950s under “urban renewal”…
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Alternatives to the rainbow color scale
Oh. It’s that time of year already. Time to hate on the rainbow…
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Q&A with Di Cook
Statistics professor Di Cook was one of the first people I ever talked…
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Introduction to regular expressions
If you want to analyze bodies of text, it’s a good to know…
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Ed Sheeran’s creative process explained with music visualization
The New York Times is back at it in explaining the creative process.…
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How machines learn
Hearing about machine learning and algorithms a lot recently and not sure what…
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Cards Against Humanity’s public poll results
For the past few months, Cards Against Humanity polled the American public to…
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Tax calculator that considers where you live
Here’s a different look at tax cuts and increases from Reuben Fischer-Baum for…
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How your taxes will change
I’m pretty sure this is all that most people want to know. The…
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Rumsey Collection with a data visualization subject tag
The David Rumsey Map Collection, known for its many browsable historical maps, now…
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Multivariate map collection
I heard you like maps. Jim Vallandingham put together a collection of maps…
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Disney-Fox market share
Disney is set to buy 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. I honestly…
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R data structures for Excel users
Introducing yourself to R as an Excel user can be tricky, especially when…
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Tracking ballet dancer movements
Research group Euphrates experimented with lines and a ballet dancer’s movements in Ballet…
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Regulations.
Doug Mills, reporting for The New York Times:
Echoing his days as a…