As you probably know, Twitter (and all social media) collects data about you…
Nathan Yau
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Infinite Twitter ad campaign, based on data profiles
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Summary Statistics Tell You Little About the Big Picture
Mean, median, and mode. These are the first things you learn about in…
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Test how well you can draw the states
Chris Wilson for Time has a fun piece up that tests how well…
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Temperature simulation near the Earth’s core
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Researchers are building models to simulate the Earth’s core. From… -
Married People Have More Sex
The relationship and dynamics change. Less lust, more companionship. Is that really how it works?
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Empty bladder vs. full bladder
I always enjoy the data sketches that Mona Chalabi posts on Instagram. She…
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Misleading Medicaid funding with the baseline
The administration tweeted a chart that shows the Senate Republican health care bill…
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Australia as 100 people
Opting for the force-directed clusters route, Catherine Hanrahan and Simon Elvery for ABC…
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Trolling the uncertainty dial
During the election last year, The New York Times ran an uncertainty dial…
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Alone Time
It’s harder to make friends as you get older. There aren’t as many…
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Parts of America that most resemble the future
The Census Bureau released estimates for demographic breakdowns for each county — in…
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When babies are born, the cycle
Movies would have you believe that birth is random and unpredictable. (And if…
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Email Deletion Flowchart
We all get a lot of emails, and there’s a large subset of…
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A thousand ways to draw a thing
Google released the Quick, Draw! dataset, so the closer looks at the collection…
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A guide for using open data to combat corruption
Open Up: A Guide to Using Open Data to Combat Corruption is free…
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Data Everywhere, Statisticians Anywhere
I had the honor to deliver the commencement speech at the UCLA Statistics…
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Circle drawing as an indicator for culture
Thu-Huong Ha and Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz looked at the doodling dataset from…
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Normal coffee
This barista deserves a tip.
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Looking for cultural expression in 50 million doodles
Using Google’s Quick Draw dataset, a collection of 50 million drawings across 345…
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How to Make a Multi-line Step Chart in R
For the times your data represents immediate changes in value.