Last year, BuzzFeed News went looking for surveillance flight paths from the FBI…
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Machine learning to find spy planes
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How Airbnb Visitors Rate Location in Major US Cities
This is how Airbnb visitors judge location, which provides a view into where city centers begin and end.
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Perception of neighborhoods through Airbnb ratings
Beñat Arregi made a series of Airbnb maps with a simple premise. If…
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Calculating the opposite of your job
Here’s a fun calculation from The Upshot.
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14 months of sleep and breast feeding
If you’re a parent, you’ll relate to this right away. The wife of…
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How to Make a State Grid Map in R
Something of a cross between a reference table and a map, the state grid provides equal space to each state and a semblance of the country to quickly pick out individual states.
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Karate-inspired projection mapping
I have no idea how projection mapping works, so it kind of feels…
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Music preference geography
Travel to different parts of the country, and you hear different types of…
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Interactive shows map projections with a face
We’ve seen faces as map projections before, but this is 63 projections on…
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Boeing draws a plane in the sky with flight path
In a test flight, Boeing took the thing where you draw using your…
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d3-annotation 2.0 →
Next iteration of library for annotation. Made me delve into d3.js v4.
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Voronoi diagram of people in the park
From Rod Bogart, a Voronoi diagram of people sitting in Bryant Park. It’s…
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Working on Tips, by State
What percentage of a waiter and waitress’s income comes from tips and what comes from salary? The calculation isn’t straightforward but we can try.
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Flow of goods between states
Using data from the Freight Analysis Framework, Chris Canipe for Axios mapped the…
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Google Trends eclipse interest
I feel like the large-volume coverage of the upcoming eclipse doesn’t quite match…
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Roomba selling maps of home interiors
Newer Roomba vacuums form a map of your house to more efficiently clean…
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Office Hours
If you’re a FlowingData member, you can now access the new forum where…
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How Many Users Resize Their Browser? →
I’ve been slow to get into making things that are responsive. But maybe I should hurry up.
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Satellite view of the upcoming eclipse’s path
In case you didn’t hear, a solar eclipse is on the way that…
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Hotter and hotter summers, extremely hot
Climate scientist James Hansen and team looked at summer temperatures over several decades.…