There’s a space on the basketball court called “mid-range.” It’s actually not off-limits. In fact, people used to shoot these so-called “mid-range” shots.
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Goodbye, Mid-Range Shot
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How to Make Animated (GIF) Heatmaps in R
Using color as the visual encoding, show changes over time in two dimensions.
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When geolocation makes everyone think you stole their phone
People show up unannounced at John and his mother Ann’s home in South…
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One-year time-lapse of the weather
Along the same lines as last week’s one-year wind time-lapse, Weather Decoded provides…
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Voronoi diagram from smooshing paint between glass
It feels like magic. I think there’s a magic trick percolating in there…
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Repetitions, Data Analysis as Brainstorm
Compelling visualization doesn’t just conjure itself out of nowhere. The ideas come from somewhere, and oftentimes they build off previous ones.
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Time-lapse of all the wind in 2018
Using the same National Weather Service data that powers his live-ish wind map…
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Government shutdown, other industries provided for scale
As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The…
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Vintage map with modern 3-D elevation
This vintage recreation by graphic designer Scott Reinhard fills all the right checkboxes…
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Border wall progress chart
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List of visualization best-of-year lists, 2018
The end of a year is always a good time to look back…
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No such thing as raw data
Nick Barrowman on the myth of raw data:
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Avoiding D3, Using D3, and Why I Use D3
D3.js can be used for a lot of things, and for some people it’s too much to deal with.
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Applying for a PhD program in visualization
Niklas Elmqvist provides a detailed guide for finding and a visualization PhD program:…
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Context to the stock market rise and falls
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Fake internet
Max Read for New York Magazine describes the fake-ness of internet through the…
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2018.
While looking through this year’s projects, picking out my favorites, I couldn’t help…
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Higher turnout for midterm elections
Bloomberg charted voter turnout for the just past midterm elections, comparing 2018 against…
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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2018
Visualization continues to mature and develop into a medium. There’s less focus on visualization the tool and more focus on how to use the tools. That is a good thing.
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Kernel density estimation explainer
Matthew Conlen provides a short explainer of how kernel density estimation works. Nifty.…
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