For commuters, the farther away you live from the workplace, the earlier you have to leave your house to get to work on time. How much does that start time change the farther out you get?
Nathan Yau
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Mapping When and Where People Start their Commute
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How data changes the design process at every stage
On Multiple Views, the Interactions Lab talks about their experience as a design…
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Scientology city takeover
For Tampa Bay Times, Tracey McManus and Eli Murray delve into the purchasing…
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Microsoft’s visual data explorer SandDance open sourced
Microsoft just open sourced their data exploration tool known as SandDance:
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Less Time With Methods, More Time With Questions and Context (The Process #61)
Data represents the real world, and visualization represents data. But sometimes data and the real world disagree with each other.
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Techniques for adding context to visualization
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How Much Commuting is Too Much?
One person’s long commute is another’s dream. Another person’s normal might be someone else’s nightmare. What counts as a long commute depends on where you live.
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Study retracted after finding a mistaken recoding of the data
A study found that a hospital program significantly reduced the number of hospitalizations…
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FiveThirtyEight launches new NBA metric for predictions
FiveThirtyEight has been predicting NBA games for a few years now, based on…
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Fall foliage colors mapped
For The Washington Post, Lauren Tierney and Joe Fox mapped fall foliage colors…
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How Intentions Changed How People Read the Same Map (The Process #60)
Visualization has a way of making things feel more concrete and definite. So how is it that interpretation gets so fuzzy?
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PG&E providing shapefiles, instead of a working map for shutoffs
Here in northern California, PG&E is shutting off power to thousands of households…
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GitHub contribution graph to show burnout
A quick annotation by Jonnie Hallman on Twitter: “GitHub is really good at…
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Fixing the ‘impeach this’ map with a transition to a cartogram
As discussed previously, the “impeach this” map has some issues. Mainly, it equates…
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How to Make Animated Visualization GIFs with ImageMagick
Using the library command-line gets you more flexibility to highlight the important parts of the data.
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With terminal cancer, a patient tracks drug dose in a dashboard over her final days
Kelly Martin died of cancer on September 30. She was able to enjoy…
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Animated line chart to show the rich paying less taxes
David Leonhardt, for The New York Times, discusses the relatively low tax rates…
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The early beginnings of visual thinking
Visualization is a relatively new field. Sort of. The increased availability of data…
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Differences between enterprise data visualization and data journalism
Toph Tucker used to make graphics for Bloomberg Businessweek. Now he does enterprise…
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Visualization for Analysis vs. Visualization for an Audience (The Process #59)
The visualizations are used and read differently, which requires that you approach their design differently.
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