Based on the “half-your-age-plus-seven” rule, the range of people you can date expands with age. Combine that with population counts and demographics, and you can find when your non-creepy dating pool peaks.
Nathan Yau
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Peak Non-Creepy Dating Pool
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Skewed mental map of the world’s geography
The maps that we imagine as we think about locations around the world…
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Years of life lost due to breathing bad air
Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute estimated the number of…
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Tools I Am Thankful for That Make Data Work Easier
In the spirit of the holidays, here are the tools I am most thankful for. Without them, work would be much more tedious and painful.
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City road maps made into solvable mazes
Michelle Chandra uses street data as a base for solvable mazes:
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Color distribution in campaign logos
In news graphics, blue typically represents Democrat and red represents Republican. However, the…
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Neural networks to generate music
Kyle McDonald describes some of the history and current research on using algorithms…
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Book of hand-painted ski maps
When you go skiing or snowboarding, you get a map of the mountain…
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Inflated counts for cleared rape cases
Newsy, Reveal and ProPublica look into rape cases in the U.S. and law…
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Where Camp fire destroyed homes
The Camp fire death toll rose to 63 and 631 missing as of…
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Uses for Animation in Charts and Animating Your Own Data
Important question: Is animation in visualization even worthwhile? Well, it depends. Surprise, surprise. In this issue, I look at animation in data visualization, its uses, and how I like to think about it when I implement moving data.
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The Crime Machine
I’m behind on my podcast listening (well, behind in everything tbh), but Reply…
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Finding a house to buy, using statistics
Atma Mani, a geospatial engineer for ESRI, imagined shopping for a house with…
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Street names as a proxy for history and culture
From Streetscapes by Zeit:
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Visualization research for non-researchers
Reading visualization research papers can often feel like a slog. As a necessity,…
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How I Made That: Animated Difference Charts in R
A combination of a bivariate area chart, animation, and a population pyramid, with a sprinkling of detail and annotation.
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A collection of Charles-Joseph Minard’s statistical graphics
Charles-Joseph Minard, best known for a graphic he made (during retirement, one year…
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Earth puzzle without borders
The Earth Puzzle by generative design studio Nervous System has no defined borders.…
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Election Visualization Circle of Life
Election night has become quite the event for newsrooms and graphics departments over the years, and the visualization production cycle has started to feel more familiar each time.
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Millions of data points with deep scatterplots
Ben Schmidt uses deep scatterplots to visualize millions of data points. It’s a…
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