The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…
Nathan Yau
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Scale comparison of wildfires
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When data is not quite what it seems
FiveThirtyEight used a dataset on broadband as the basis for a couple of…
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How to Make Venn Diagrams in R
The usually abstract, qualitative and sometimes quantitative chart type shows relationships. You can make them in R, if you must.
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When the interesting pattern ends up just being computer byproduct
Good lesson here. Christian Laesser was playing around with receipt data and initially…
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Unconstitutional gerrymandering
Alan Blinder and Michael Wines reporting for The New York Times:
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Spotting rip currents
Rip currents are like hidden rivers near the shore that head out to…
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Visualizing the Uncertainty in Data
Data is an abstraction, and it’s impossible to encapsulate everything it represents in real life. So there is uncertainty. Here are ways to visualize the uncertainty.
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Obliteration Room invited people to put dotted stickers everywhere
The Obliteration Room (2012) by artist Yayoi Kusama started as a blank white…
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Where athletes in professional sports come from
Sports are growing more international with respect to the athletes. Gregor Aisch, Kevin…
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Field Guide to the R Ecosystem
If you’re looking to acquaint yourself with R — the non-coding aspects of…
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Most popular GIFs used to express emotion in different countries
People often use animated GIFs to digitally express caricatures of emotion or reaction.…
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Favourite maps from 2017 →
Cartographer picked his favorites. Better late than never.
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Mapping perceived canopy tree cover in major cities
Treepedia, from the MIT Senseable City Lab, estimates perceived tree cover at the…
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Time-lapse shows night sky at varying levels of light pollution
One of my favorite childhood memories is the time I went camping and…
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10 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2017
It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year.
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Charting all the major California wildfires since 2000
Based on data from CAL FIRE, Erin Ross, for Axios, plotted California wildfires…
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Getty Center fire resistance
Fire spread over Los Angeles, but the famous art works in the Getty…
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Automatic label placement along path →
Noah Veltman refined his label placement method, particularly useful for area graphs.
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Family displacements through urban renewal
Hundreds of thousands of families were displaced in the 1950s under “urban renewal”…
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Alternatives to the rainbow color scale
Oh. It’s that time of year already. Time to hate on the rainbow…
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