Ah, the online personality quiz, oh how I missed you. Oh wait, this…
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Personality quiz with traits on a spectrum
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Datawrapper Review: A Focused Charting Tool That Requires No Code
Datawrapper is an online tool that helps you make nice-looking charts for the web. No code is required. Instead, a focused interface lets you load data, pick your chart type, refine, and publish.
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Inside out map of the Grand Canyon
John Nelson turned the Grand Canyon inside out to understand the magnitude better:…
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Build a parasite to block your digital assistant
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Amanda Cox promoted to New York Times data editor
Amanda Cox is the new data editor for The New York Times:
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Goodbye, Mid-Range Shot
There’s a space on the basketball court called “mid-range.” It’s actually not off-limits. In fact, people used to shoot these so-called “mid-range” shots.
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How to Make Animated (GIF) Heatmaps in R
Using color as the visual encoding, show changes over time in two dimensions.
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When geolocation makes everyone think you stole their phone
People show up unannounced at John and his mother Ann’s home in South…
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One-year time-lapse of the weather
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Voronoi diagram from smooshing paint between glass
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Repetitions, Data Analysis as Brainstorm
Compelling visualization doesn’t just conjure itself out of nowhere. The ideas come from somewhere, and oftentimes they build off previous ones.
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Time-lapse of all the wind in 2018
Using the same National Weather Service data that powers his live-ish wind map…
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Government shutdown, other industries provided for scale
As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The…
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Vintage map with modern 3-D elevation
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Border wall progress chart
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List of visualization best-of-year lists, 2018
The end of a year is always a good time to look back…
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No such thing as raw data
Nick Barrowman on the myth of raw data:
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Avoiding D3, Using D3, and Why I Use D3
D3.js can be used for a lot of things, and for some people it’s too much to deal with.
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Applying for a PhD program in visualization
Niklas Elmqvist provides a detailed guide for finding and a visualization PhD program:…
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Context to the stock market rise and falls
The stock market is in a state. So finicky the past few months.…
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