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Shifts in How Couples Meet, Online Takes the Top
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Case of the 500-mile email
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Forcing You to See the Data
John Tukey wrote, “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” Not everyone wants to see though.
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FastCharts to make charts fast
FastCharts is the public version of the Financial Times’ in-house solution for making…
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How People Meet Their Partners
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Internet under the sea
To connect servers around the world, there are actual cables that run under…
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TwoTone is a tool to sonify your data
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Inverse map of the United States
I’m thoroughly enjoying the work coming from graphic designer Scott Reinhard as of…
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Connections and patterns in the Mueller investigation
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High school basketball players who make it to the NBA
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Playing the Distributions, Hypothetical Outcome Plots, Getting Closer to Real Life
Histograms for a general audience can be a challenge. I’m curious if building up the distributions over time can be helpful.
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Light installation shows future water lines against existing structures
Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta used sensors, LED lights, and timers to display…
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A Day in the Life: Women and Men
Using the past couple of years of data from the American Time Use Survey, I simulated a working day for men and women to see how schedules differ. Watch it play out in this animation.
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Charting cholera, beyond John Snow
John Snow, who often gets the credit for showing the geographical patterns of…
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Hatching image effect in R
Here’s a fun thing to try in R. Jean Fan posted some code…
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Celebrity name spelling test
Colin Morris culled common misspellings on Reddit and made the data available on…
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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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