Mark Rober, who is having a good run of science and engineering videos…
Nathan Yau
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Statistical uncertainty as certainty
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NOAA chief scientist highlights the forecast contradiction
In regards to the press release that seemed to contradict the National Weather…
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A sim to show self-driving car challenges
On the surface, driving a car might seem fairly straightforward. Follow the rules…
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All of the plastic bottles purchased in a day, Eiffel Tower for scale
Millions of plastic bottles are purchased every day around the world. What does…
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Looking at the Amazon fires wrong
For The Washington Post, Sergio Peçanha and Tim Wallace use maps to show…
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Quiet Observer
I’ve always been a quiet person who prefers to observe and slowly think…
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Restless Sleep With Age
It seems like no matter what I do, I cannot sleep through the night. Will it ever let up? According to the data, the answer is no and it will only get worse.
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Straying from the Blue-Pink Color Scheme to Represent Gender in Visualization (The Process #55)
The blue and pink color scheme for boys and girls, respectively, used to be the norm. Now, not so much.
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Bird’s-eye view of D3.js
D3.js can do a lot of things, which provides valuable flexibility to construct…
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Useful and not so useful Statistics
Hannah Fry, for The New Yorker, describes the puzzle of Statistics to analyze…
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Gallery of uncertainty visualization methods
It must be uncertainty month and nobody told me. For Scientific American, Jessica…
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What that hurricane map means
For The New York Times, Alberto Cairo and Tala Schlossberg explain the cone…
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Map shows long-term record of fires around the world
For the NASA Earth Observatory, Adam Voiland describes about two decades of fires:…
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Where salaries stretch the farthest
Salaries are higher in big cities, but it also cost to live more…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, August 2019 Roundup (The Process #54)
Every month I collect visualization tools and resources that you can use for or improve your work. Here’s the good stuff for August 2019.
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Optimizing a Pokémon team with simulation
Emily Robinson recently took up Pokémon on Nintendo Switch:
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The Most Gender-Switched Names in US History
We use some names mostly for boys and some mostly for girls, but then there is a small percentage that, over time, switched from one gender to another. Which names made the biggest switch?
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Cartogram of where presidential candidates campaign
Presidential candidates campaign harder in some states more than others. National Popular Vote…
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Where and why the Amazon rainforest is on fire
For Bloomberg, Mira Rojanasakul and Tatiana Freitas discuss why the Amazon rainforest is…
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Detected fires in the Amazon rain forest, monthly
The New York Times goes with monthly small multiples to show detected fires…