Standardized ratings are a challenge, because they often try to encapsulate many variables…
Nathan Yau
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How online school ratings are flawed
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Deaths from child abuse, a starting dataset
By way of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, ProPublica and The…
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Color palettes browsable in context
Color scheme selections are nice and all, but they’re even better when viewed…
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Occupation Growth and Decline
We looked at shifts in job distribution over the past several decades, but it was difficult to see by how much each occupation group changed individually. This chart makes the changes more obvious.
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Datawrapper updates pricing structure, do more for free
Datawrapper, a focused web tool that makes online charts easier to put together…
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Using old ship logs as a window into the weather in the 1800s
For Reuters, Feilding Cage describes a weather time machine project by NOAA that…
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Moratorium On Bar Chart Races; When Impractical Visualization is More Practical (The Process #68)
The dataisbeautiful subreddit announced a moratorium on the ever popular bar chart race. The frequency of submissions that used the method got out of hand and spam made it all the less savory. Still, the method holds value.
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Haikus generated based on your map location and OpenStreetMap data
Satellite Studio made a map thing that generates haikus based on OpenStreetMap data…
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Shifts in Job Distribution
In the 1950s, almost half of all employed people were either in farming or manufacturing. As you can imagine, work changed a bit over the years.
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AI-generated pies
Janelle Shane applied her know-how with artificial intelligence to generate new types of…
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Everything in the universe
In this video, Dominic Walliman attempts to illustrate and explain all of the…
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All the Foreign Bodies That Got Stuck
Many things get stuck in people’s bodies. This is the percentage breakdown for the most common objects that end up in the emergency room.
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources — November 2019 Roundup (The Process #67)
Every month I collect new visualization tools, datasets, and resources. Here is the good stuff for November.
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Scroll, scroll, scroll through the depths of the ocean
The oceans are deep. But how deep and what’s down there? Neal Agarwal…
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Compare your city’s air pollution to the rest of the world
High air pollution can lead to serious health risks, but you can’t usually…
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Looking for similar NBA games, based on win probability time series
Inpredictable, a sports analytics site by Michael Beuoy, tracks win probabilities of NBA…
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How to Draw Maps with Hatching Lines in R
Fill areas with varying line density to give more or less visual attention. With geographic maps, the technique is especially useful to adjust for population density.
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Fashion runway color palette
From Google Arts & Culture:
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Traveling Salesman art
Robert Bosch likes to use the Traveling Salesman Problem to draw famous portraits…
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Teaching R to 7th graders
Joshua Rosenberg describes his one-day experience teaching R to 7th graders:
[T]he activity…
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