Well this is awesome. The Winter Olympics start this Friday, and The New…
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Olympians in your living room through augmented reality
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Roger Federer career in rankings and wins
Professional tennis player Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title recently. He’s…
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Scissors congruence
The Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem says that if you have two polygons of equal area,…
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Statistics crash course
Odds are if you’re reading this, you know what statistics is already, but…
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Redistricting the congressional map with different goals
FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…
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Bruises
Musician Kaki King’s daughter suffers from a condition (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) where her…
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How I Made That: Animated Square Pie Chart
Also known as waffle charts. Using animated transitions between values, you can allow for comparisons between categories.
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Over Heard: A design exploration of the On Being archive →
The process of building a client project with varied expectations along the way.
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Secret army bases seen in public fitness tracking map
Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…
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Visualizing Incomplete and Missing Data
We love complete and nicely formatted data. That’s not what we get a lot of the time.
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Finding fake followers
This fake follower piece by Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris, and…
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Hand-drawn how-to instructions using zero words
Inspired by Dear Data, the data drawing pen pal project, designers Josefina Bravo,…
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Release strategies for Oscar-nominated films
Evie Liu and William Davis, reporting MarketWatch, looked at release strategies of Oscar…
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Is there something wrong with democracy?
Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, for The New York Times, answer the question…
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World population estimator and gridded data from NASA
Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…
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The Demographics of Others
I think we can all benefit from knowing a little more about others these days. This is a glimpse of how different groups live.
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Surprise, the world was warmer again in 2017
According to NASA estimates, 2017 was the second warmest year on record since…
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Data to identify Wikipedia rabbit holes
New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is… -
Porn traffic before and after the missile alert in Hawaii
PornHub compared minute-to-minute traffic on their site before and after the missile alert…
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Compare your fears against reality
From ABC News, this is a clever comparison between people’s worst fears and…