The oceans are deep. But how deep and what’s down there? Neal Agarwal…
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Scroll, scroll, scroll through the depths of the ocean
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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
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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:
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2,774 miles traveled by a lone wolf
From the Voyageurs Wolf Project, a map shows the travels of a lone…
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How parents spend time with their kids
For Quartz, Dan Kopf and Jenny Anderson on how time spent with kids…
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Hours of daylight mapped as a function of latitude and time of year
Reddit user harpalss animated hours of day light by latitude and day of…
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Bar Chart Baselines Don’t Have to Start at Zero? (The Process #66)
False.
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Quietest highway route in each state
Geotab made a rough estimate of the quietest route in each state, based…
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Data life cycle
Summarizing a talk by Xaquín G.V., Natalie Gerhardstein for Delano:
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KPI overload
From Tom Fishburne, the Marketoonist. Maybe a dashboard isn’t the answer you’re looking…
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Salary and Occupation
Salaries vary across occupations. Here are some charts that show by how much for 800 of them.
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Making the most detailed map of auto emissions in America
Using estimates from the Database of Road Transportation Emissions, Nadja Popovich and Denise…
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The Best Visualization Course I Ever Took; Membership Update with New Points of View (The Process #65)
This week I reminisce back to when I didn’t know anything about visualization, and all I wanted to do was solve analysis problems. Also, some fun updates on the way, exclusively for members.
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Why scientists need to be better at visualization
For Knowable Magazine, Betsy Mason looks at the state of (not so good)…
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Growing Your Visualization Toolset (and Mine), a FlowingData Membership Update
It’s time to kick the tires on some new tools.
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Map of nighttime lights normalized by population
You’ve probably seen the composite map of lights at night from NASA. It…
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