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    Crystal Owens, Max Fan, John Hart, and Gareth McKinley from Massachusetts Institute of…

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    How to Make Bubble Clusters in R

    Tutorials  /  R

    Represent individual counts with grouped units to make data feel less abstract.

  • Tracking the CIA to demo phone tracking

    Data Sharing  /  Intercept, privacy

    Sam Biddle and Jack Poulson for The Intercept reporting on Anomaly Six, a…

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    Sentiment analysis can be fun to apply to varying types of text, but…

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    Rent increased pretty much everywhere in the United States over the past year.…

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    In high school, we spend most of our days with friends and immediate family. But then we get jobs, start a family, retire, and there’s a shift in who we spend our days with.

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    Stuck in a Form

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    When you choose visual encodings before considering the data, you usually end up with results that aren’t so great.

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    Zack Capozzi, for USA Lacrosse Magazine, explains how he calculates win probabilities pre-game…

  • Agent-based modeling in JavaScript

    Software  /  agent, Graham McNeill, JavaScript, modeling

    Atomic Agents is a JavaScript library by Graham McNeill that can help simulate…

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    Maps  /  Gordon Logie, satellite imagery, wildfire

    In 2021, a large portion of North America was stuck in a heat…

  • Scraping public data ruled legal

    Data Sources  /  public, scraping

    For TechCrunch, Zack Whittaker reporting:
    In its second ruling on Monday, the Ninth…

  • Redrafting the NBA, based on past player performance

    Statistical Visualization  /  basketball, draft, Pudding

    With the NBA playoffs underway, it can be fun to watch the best…

  • Tax services want your data

    Data Sharing  /  privacy, taxes, Washington Post

    Taxes are due today in the U.S. (yay). Geoffrey A. Fowler for The…

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    Software  /  NZ Herald, R, Ross Ihaka

    NZ Herald talked to Ross Ihaka, one of the creators of R:
    Today,…

  • Tonga shockwave around the world

    Maps  /  eruption, New York Times, shockwave, Tonga

    Earlier this year, an underwater volcano erupted in the island nation of Tonga.…

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    Manually

    The Process  /  editing

    Manually editing charts is worthwhile, despite the possibility of manually making mistakes.

  • Comparing rich people incomes and the taxes they pay

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    Based on leaked IRS data for the 400 wealthiest Americans, ProPublica provides a…

  • Social Media Usage by Age

    Data Underload  /  age, social media

    Here’s the breakdown by age for American adults in 2021, based on data from the Pew Research Center.

  • When people eat dinner in Europe

    Maps  /  dinner, Europe

    This map by @loverofgeography shows the usual dinner times for countries in Europe.…

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