Colin Morris culled common misspellings on Reddit and made the data available on…
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Celebrity name spelling test
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – February 2019 Roundup
Throughout the month I collect new tools for data and visualization and additional resources on designing data graphics. Here’s the new stuff for February.
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Names in movies vs. real life
Here’s a fun spin on the name analysis genre by Mary Zam. She…
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How to Make Dot Timelines in R
For when you want to show the occurrence of events over time.
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Where Your Job is Most Popular
Some jobs are common nationwide, because they are needed everywhere. Others are more specific to geography. See where job falls on the spectrum.
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Probability you will break up with your partner
Rosenfeld, et al. from Stanford University ran a survey in 2009 for a…
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Stacked bus routes on a map
Speaking of 3-D usage on maps, here’s a map of bus routes in…
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Segregation compared during work and at home
Based on commuting data from the Census Bureau, researchers Matthew Hall, John Iceland,…
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Most Uniquely Popular Job in Each State
These are the jobs in each state that are most specific to the place.
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Searching for the saddest punt ever, with statistics
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Making Data “Come Alive”, Needs More Cowbell
“How do I make my data come alive? I want it to sing. I want it to dance.” Here are some ways to achieve that.
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From text to paint
Leslie Roberts uses paint to encode text as colors and geometry:
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Billions at the Franchise Box Office
There’s big money in wizarding worlds, galaxies far away, and various time-shifted universes. Let’s take a stroll through the billions of dollars earned by franchises over the years.
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How fast emissions would reduce if other plans were adopted
The United States is doing pretty poorly in reducing emissions. For The New…
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French fry power rankings
Lucas Kwan Peterson for the Los Angeles Times ranked fast food french fries.…
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Opportunity rover’s path on Mars
After a most unforgiving dust storm on Mars, NASA ended the 14-year mission…
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Visualization Critique: Giving, Interpreting, and Rejecting
Figure out the useful bits and get rid of everything else.
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Language used for the wall
For The Upshot, Kevin Quealy continues on his path looking at the words…
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Data-driven porn
Gustavo Turner for Logic on his experiences covering the porn industry and the…
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EGOT Winner Timelines
Only 15 people have done it, since you know, it’s not really easy to do. Here’s how and when they did it.
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