Max Read for New York Magazine describes the fake-ness of internet through the…
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2018.
While looking through this year’s projects, picking out my favorites, I couldn’t help…
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Higher turnout for midterm elections
Bloomberg charted voter turnout for the just past midterm elections, comparing 2018 against…
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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2018
Visualization continues to mature and develop into a medium. There’s less focus on visualization the tool and more focus on how to use the tools. That is a good thing.
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Kernel density estimation explainer
Matthew Conlen provides a short explainer of how kernel density estimation works. Nifty.…
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Top NBA player by zone
Kirk Goldsberry is back at ESPN. I put this here mainly because it’s…
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Following your gut, following the data
The Wall Street Journal highlighted a disagreement between data and business at Netflix.…
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Finding all of the trees in the world with machine learning
Descartes Labs used machine learning to identify all of the trees in the…
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Old Christmas songs get all the play time
Jon Keegan scraped the playlist from the local radio station’s all-Christmas playlist for…
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Tufte Tweet Follow-up; Visualization Tools and Resources Roundup for December 2018
Edward Tufte criticized R for not being able to do some things typographically. It came in a tweet and was likely misunderstood. Sort of. I got a clarification from the man himself.
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Spotting AI-generated faces
Computers can generate faces that look real. What a time to be alive.…
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Make a figure-ground diagram using OpenStreetMap data
In visual perception, a figure-ground grouping is where you recognize an object through…
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Modern reproduction of 1847 geometry books
Euclid’s Elements is a series of 13 books produced in 300 BC that…
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Soup-Salad-Sandwich space
The debate rages on about the categorization of food items as soup, salad,…
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Ages in Congress, from the 1st to the 115th
As I watched Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai field questions from the House Judiciary…
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Google Fusion Tables Shutdown, Lack of Preservation, and Finding Alternatives
Google announced that Fusion Tables will be laid to rest, which highlights a need for preservation of visualization for the long-term.
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Apps gather your location and then sell the data
The New York Times takes a closer look at the data that apps…
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Single-Income Occupations
About 18 percent of couple households are single-income. I wanted to know what the earner in these homes usually do.
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When cycling is faster than driving
Deliveroo is a service that picks up and delivers food. Data from their…
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Falling ticket prices for longer flights
Based on data from Expedia, this is an interesting one from The Economist.…
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