Every now and then there’s a visual exploration of the Choose Your Own…
Nathan Yau
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Mappings for Choose Your Own Adventure books
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Moving ice
Ice in Antartica is in constant (very slow) motion, and as ocean waters…
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The Warriors’ Championship Path
As expected, this time, the Golden State Warriors won the championship last night.…
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Gun emoji usage analysis
Jane Solomon collected tweets that used the gun emoji, and looked at what…
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Politics of religious leaders
Kevin Quealy for The Upshot looks at political party registration of religious leaders,…
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Symbols-based Unit Charts to Show Counts in R
Add visual weight by using individual items to show counts.
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Geocities map, a snapshot of an old web
Geocities was a place on the web you could create your own space…
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Pollution popsicles
Students at the National Taiwan University of Arts made popsicles using sewage runoff…
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R programming with Minecraft
The new R package miner is an interface to Minecraft via some simple…
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How Histograms Work
The histogram is one of my favorite basic chart types, because it lets…
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Baseball hitting angles on the rise
After the crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs, home runs in professional baseball dipped the…
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Chances it’s a Friend’s Birthday Every Single Day of the Year
If it seems like every day you log in to Facebook, it’s someone’s birthday, you’re probably not that far off.
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xkcd: Words in every state map
xkcd reading my mind somehow as usual. Not all state word maps are…
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Common statistical interpretation mistakes
Statistics is a game of subtleties, and you lose when you don’t pay…
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LeBron James passed Michael Jordan in playoff points
As a Golden State Warriors fan, I am obligated to dislike LeBron James,…
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Giving Up Time as a Parent
There is a fixed number of minutes during the day. Where do parents usually draw the time from?
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Multiplayer stock market game with real money
Twitch launched Stock Stream, which is a multiplayer stock market game that uses…
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Comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps Over a Year
Google collects much of their own data to construct their maps, whereas Apple…
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Obi-Wan saying “Hello there” 67 million times
This clip of Obi-Wan saying “Hello there” 67 million times amused me too…
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Melting glaciers
Glaciers at Glacier National Park in Montana are melting. Using data from the…