Data can provide you with important information, but when the collection process is…
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Flawed hate crime data collection
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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
Lidar, which is like radar but with lasers instead of radio waves, can…
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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
Judith Duportail, writing for the Guardian, requested her personal data from dating service…
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Stopping a nuclear missile fired at the US
I hate that this feels like something civilians should know. Bonnie Berkowitz and…
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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
Shifting from one occupation to another can take a swing in the career path. Given your current job, what paths could you take? Here are some constructed possibilities.
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Chart search popularity
Anna Vital, in collaboration with the Google News Lab, shows the 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
Last year, ProPublica revealed that Facebook allowed housing advertisers to exclude races in…
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Google collected Android users’ location without permission
Keith Collins reporting for Quartz:
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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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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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