Gabriel Goh models momentum over at the new machine learning journal Distill. The…
Nathan Yau
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Why momentum works
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Shift in world’s night lights
NASA recently released composite images of the Earth at night based on 2016…
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Senators and Reps whose voting doesn’t quite match the constituent’s
I know, it’s only April 2017, but some senators and representatives have some…
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Finding the craft beer capital of America
You had me at craft beer. Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding looks for…
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New images of Earth at night
NASA just released a composite map of the world at night using satellite…
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Love in the age of data, without data
We live in a time when personal data leaves digital traces of what…
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Climate Change Coloring Book
The Climate Change Coloring Book by Brian Foo makes data tactile and interactive.…
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Quickly browse large CSV files on the desktop with Tad
When you first get a CSV file, sometimes it’s useful to poke at…
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A century of facial hair styles
Facial hair styles change with the years. One year it might be more…
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Challenges of visualization in industry
The most recent Data Stories episode with Elijah Meeks is worth a listen…
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Visualize large datasets with deck.gl
deck.gl is an open source framework developed by Uber to visualize large datasets…
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A story of humanity in the pixels of a Reddit April Fool’s experiment
On April Fool’s Day, Reddit launched a blank canvas that users could add…
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Introducing a Course for Mapping in R
Mapping geographic data in R can be tricky, because there are so many…
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Listen to soundtrack based on FedEx shipment tracking
FedEx (yes, the shipping company) put up an interactive piece that audiolizes a…
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Best infographics in the news
The annual Malofiej Awards is the big one for infographics in the news.…
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Automatic visualization is a bad idea, generally speaking
Plug in any dataset into a magic box and it spits out a…
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Use dual axes with care, if at all
Dual axes, where there are two value scales in a single chart, are…
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Data bias at every step
Lena Groeger for ProPublica describes when the designer shows up in the design,…
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National precinct map
Mapping at the precinct level of detail is tough because there isn’t a…
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Interactive visualization is still alive
Phew. Close call.
New York Times graphics editor Gregor Aisch noted during a…