FiveThirtyEight compared six Covid-19 models for a sense of where we might be…
Nathan Yau
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Comparing Covid-19 models
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Playable simulations to decide what happens next
The timelines keep shifting and people are getting antsy for many valid (and…
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Looking for generational gaps in music
Inspired by the genre of YouTube videos where younger people listen to older…
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Neural network generates convincing songs by famous singers
Jukebox from OpenAI is a generative model that makes music in the same…
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – April 2020 Roundup
Every month, I collect visualization tools and resources that might help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for April.
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Who Funds the World Health Organization
A couple of weeks ago — or maybe it was a couple of years ago, I’m not sure — the administration announced it would withdraw funding from the World Health Organization. Here’s what that does to the overall picture.
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Text-to-speech models trained on celebrity voices
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Pretend mall map to show at-risk brands
Many brands that were at-risk before the pandemic or ran with low profit…
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Text from press briefings categorized
The New York Times went through the words used during press briefings, pulling…
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Excess deaths
We cannot know the true number of coronavirus-related deaths. Maybe it’s because of…
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Search trends during the pandemic
As you would imagine, what we search for online shifted over the past…
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Visualization helping us during the pandemic
Hayleigh Moore for the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland…
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Testing the infinite monkey theorem
If you have a room of monkeys hitting keys on typewriters for an…
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Charting for Others (The Process 086)
There’s a new tool-agnostic course now available for members. Check it out now.
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How We Reopen
Vi Hart, along with a group of experts from different political backgrounds and…
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People of the Pandemic, a game that simulates social distancing in your ZIP Code
People of the Pandemic is a game that lets you choose how many…
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Missing deaths
The daily counts for coronavirus deaths rely on reporting, testing, and available estimates,…
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Change in Google searches since the virus
The coronavirus changed what information we search for. Has anyone been more interested…
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Game of Distraction
They say a watched pot never boils. So here’s a game where you try to make the pot boiling by looking somewhere else.
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Sheltering in small places
For many, sheltering in place means sheltering in relatively small places. Reuters zoomed…