Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest, so gross to watch but impossible to…
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Competitive hot dog eating requirements
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Mosaic, a framework for scalable and linked visualization
From the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab, Mosaic is a research project…
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Oddly specific ad profiles
Advertising funds a big chunk of the web, but for advertisers to continue…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, June 2023 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for June.
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Astericking NBA champions
It seems to have grown more common for basketball fans to complain that…
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Noise and health
The New York Times explores how noise impacts health:
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Password game requires more ridiculous rules as you play
Password rules seem to get more strict and weird over time. Neal Agarwal…
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A year of flight paths, for someone with an unlimited pass
United Airlines sold a lifetime unlimited pass in 1990 for $290,000. Tom Stuker…
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Map of electric grid required for cleaner energy
To power the United States with more clean energy, you might think it’s…
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Crochet lake map
Andrew Hahn crocheted a map of Lake Mendota in Wisconsin. Each stitch represents…
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Chart Practice: Branch Out Beyond the Visual Bits
Learn more about your data and have more to visualize.
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An interactive guide to color and contrast
Color and contrast choices often are a product of personal preferences, but you…
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Switching from Python to R
If you’re looking to switch or just want to expand your skills, this…
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Friend simulation system, with ChatGPT
Philippe Vandenbroeck and Santiago Ortiz were curious about a system that incorporated knowledge…
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To make electric vehicle batteries, China must be involved
For The New York Times, Agnes Chang and Keith Bradsher ask if it’s…
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Where people are moving in the U.S.
Based on migration data recently released by the IRS, Nami Sumida for the…
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Chart Practice: Changing the Audience
Learn about who is looking at your work and how they interpret it.
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Life timeline in a spreadsheet
Coming up on 40 years old, Emmett Shear, perhaps best known as a…
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Objectiveness distributions
Putting this joke chart up for posterity, because it deserves it. The earliest…
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Using gaps in location data to track illegal fishing
Speaking of non-location in the seas, researchers at the University of California at…