Combining small multiples with the grid layout can make for an intuitive geographic reference.
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How artificial intelligence can augment our own
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Serial-Killer detector
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Bomb contaminants where you live
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Adam Pearce, a New York Times graphics editor, provides the notes and thinking behind the charts he made during the year.
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Microsoft Excel painter
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Flawed hate crime data collection
Data can provide you with important information, but when the collection process is…
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Compact Ways to Visualize Distributions in R
For when you want to show or compare several distributions but don’t have a lot of space.
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High-detail landscape using lidar data
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Drawing with noise
This looks like a fun Processing tutorial by Etienne Jacob. Use noise to…
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800 pages of Tinder data
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Stopping a nuclear missile fired at the US
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Tech generations, as seen through video source, music players, and internet access
In a fun piece by Reuben Fischer-Baum, reporting for The Washington Post:
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How I Made That: Interactive Heatmap
Add interaction so that you can show different segments of the data and allow comparisons.
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Middle-class tax cuts and increases from Senate bill
A lot of tax debate centers around the “average” American family, with focus…
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Constructed Career Paths from Job Switching Data
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Chart search popularity
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Uber got hacked and then paid the hackers $100k to not tell anyone
This is fine. Totally normal. Eric Newcomer reporting for Bloomberg:
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Facebook still allowed race exclusion for housing advertisers
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Google collected Android users’ location without permission
Keith Collins reporting for Quartz:
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