Keith Collins reporting for Quartz:
Since the beginning of 2017, Android phones have…
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Google collected Android users’ location without permission
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Troubling pick for Census Bureau deputy director
The administration’s current pick for deputy director of the United States Census Bureau…
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Global cycling and running heatmap
A few years back, cycling and running app Strava mapped the paths of…
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Scrollama.js, a JavaScript library for scrollytelling
Russell Goldenberg released Scrollama.js in an effort to make scrollytelling more straightforward to…
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Getting Started with Network Graphs in R
Add the vertices. Connect them with edges. Repeat as necessary.
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What Questions to Ask When Creating Charts →
Make charts with a purpose.
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Based on your morals, a debate with a computer to expose you to other points of view
Collective Debate from the MIT Media Lab gauges your moral compass with a…
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Switching Jobs
When people move to different jobs, here’s where they go.
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Every tax cut and increase in House Republicans’ bill
The House Republicans will vote on a tax bill soon that adds about…
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How generative music works
Generative music comes from the design of a system that produces notes that…
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3-D tube chart of global CO2 concentration and temperature
Because you can never have enough time series charts that show increases of…
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Looking for patterns and structures from the sky
Photographer Bernhard Lang takes pictures in small planes and helicopters, pointing his camera…
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A daily high-resolution image of Earth
Planet monitors Earth with hundreds of satellites, and after six years, they’ve built…
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The words used by men and women to write about love
Josh Katz, Claire Cain Miller, and Kathleen A. Flynn for The Upshot plotted…
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Importance of form and survey design to gain an accurate picture
Lena Groeger, writing for Source, shifts attention upstream from analysis to the design…
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Changing internet markets for sex work
The internet changed how sex workers and clients find each other and how…
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Google maps street-level air quality using Street View cars with sensors
Google equipped their Street View cars with air quality sensors and sent them…
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How to Make (and Animate) a Circular Time Series Plot in R
Also known as a polar plot, it is usually not the better option over a standard line chart, but in select cases the method can be useful to show cyclical patterns.
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Cities projected to be under water by 2100
Using Climate Central sea-level rise estimates, The Guardian plots and maps the potential…
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Carbon emissions goals vs. current paths
Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich reporting for The New York Times:
Under the…