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Each…
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Street network orientation in major cities
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Products with tariffs in the trade war
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Doing good data science
Mike Loukides, Hilary Mason, and DJ Patil published a first post in a…
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Composite image of a spider building its web
Christian Fröschlin combined 2,800 frames of a spider building its web for this…
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Graphics explaining Thai boys rescue
The eighth Thai boy was rescued from the flooded cave recently. Great news.…
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Visualizing Patterns on Repeat
Things have a way of repeating themselves, and it can be useful to highlight these patterns in data.
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Expected versus actual goals in the World Cup
Benjamin Pavard from France made a low-probability goal the other day. Seth Blanchard…
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How people interpret probability through words
In the early 1990s, the CIA published internal survey results for how people…
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Immigration in the United States visualized as rings of tree trunk
Pedro M. Cruz, John Wihbey, Avni Ghael and Felipe Shibuya from Northeastern University…
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A Diagram of All the Batteries
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All the building footprints in the United States
Microsoft released a comprehensive dataset for computer-generated building footprints in the United States.…
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LeBron James legacy versus championship-winning
LeBron James decides where he takes his talents this summer, and the sports…
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Why People Make Bad Charts (and What to Do When it Happens)
It’s important to consider the reasons so that we don’t overreact. Otherwise, we’re just berating, pointing, and laughing all of the time, and that’s not good for anyone.
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$16.1m in political and taxpayer spending at Trump properties
ProPublica compiled spending data from a wide range of sources to calculate the…
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Kepler.gl, an open source tool for mapping large-scale spatial data
Kepler.gl, a collaboration between Uber and Mapbox, allows for easier mapping of large-scale…
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Check if your school district or college was investigated for civil rights violations
The U.S. Department of Education constantly investigates school districts and colleges for civil…
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Same money, different counting strategies
Condé Nast Traveler got 70 people from 70 different countries to count money…
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What Makes People the Most Happy
It’s in the details of 100,000 moments. I analyzed the crowd-sourced corpus to see what brought the most smiles.
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History of the word ‘data’
Sandra Rendgen describes the history of “data” the word and where it stands…
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Finding the best Mario Kart character, statistically speaking
Henry Hinnefeld answers the age-old debate of which Mario Kart character is best,…
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