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Fracture and flow of Oreo cookies
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How to Make Bubble Clusters in R
Represent individual counts with grouped units to make data feel less abstract.
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Tracking the CIA to demo phone tracking
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Applying sentiment analysis usefully
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How much rent increased where you live
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Who We Spend Time with as We Get Older
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Stuck in a Form
When you choose visual encodings before considering the data, you usually end up with results that aren’t so great.
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Earth Reviews
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Calculating win probabilities
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Agent-based modeling in JavaScript
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Wildfires and floods, a geographic before and after
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Scraping public data ruled legal
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Redrafting the NBA, based on past player performance
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Tax services want your data
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Ross Ihaka, co-creator of R, reflects on the language
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Tonga shockwave around the world
Earlier this year, an underwater volcano erupted in the island nation of Tonga.…
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Manually editing charts is worthwhile, despite the possibility of manually making mistakes.
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Comparing rich people incomes and the taxes they pay
Based on leaked IRS data for the 400 wealthiest Americans, ProPublica provides a…
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Social Media Usage by Age
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When people eat dinner in Europe
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