Say you want to identify clusters in a scatterplot of points. K-Means is…

Anahad O’Connor, Aaron Steckelberg and Garland Potts, for The Washington Post, made charts…

The Olli library aims to make it easier for developers to improve the…

Simon Willison asked a straightforward question about the tools people use:
If someone…

It seems a lot of data scientists have either left or were laid…

Kelton Sears used a vertical scroll upwards to think about trees and time.…

Bringing in data from various federal agencies:
Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation…

Here’s the good stuff for September.

You know those signs in workplaces that keep track of days since injury?…

NOAA provides a map of potential flooding due to Hurricane Ian headed towards…

When someone fires a gun into the air, the bullet travels thousands of…

To teach, learn, and measure the process of analysis more concretely, Lucy D’Agostino…

Randall Munroe provides another fine observation through xkcd.
I often wonder what our…

Wildfire obviously damages the areas it comes in direct contact with, but wildfire…

I heard you like spiral charts when the data is seasonal. I think…

Rafael Moral sang a very nerdy data analyst song, to the tune of…

If you just always assume the data is right, you’ll probably finish with garbage.

In a collaborative effort with UX agency Kore, Moritz Stefaner describes work with…

A reliable dense fog in San Francisco is a defining characteristic of the…