Throughout the month I collect new tools for data and visualization and additional resources on designing data graphics. Here’s the new stuff for November.
Nathan Yau
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Data Tools and Resources Roundup, November 2018
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Lessons from posting a fake map about pies
Brian Brettschneider made a joke map randomly designating the favorite pies of certain…
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Peak Non-Creepy Dating Pool
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.
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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
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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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