Some jobs tend towards higher divorce rates. Some towards lower. Salary also probably plays a role.
Nathan Yau
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Divorce and Occupation
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Charting bird egg shapes, and why so many varieties
Bird eggs come in all shapes and sizes, and people didn’t really know…
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An interactive to explain histograms, for normal people
Histograms require some statistical knowledge to grasp, and without the tidbits, the distribution…
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Shazam music recognition maps
Shazam is a service with an app that lets you point your phone…
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Boost economy with immigration
Want to increase the GDP? Easy. Let more immigrants in. Lena Groeger for…
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Gender representation in comic books
Amanda Shendruk for The Pudding analyzed how genders are represented differently in comic…
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Algorithm to detect wildfires earlier
Traditional detection algorithms use infrared heat as the main signal of a wildfire.…
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Reconstructing faces from brain waves
Researchers attached electrodes to neurons in monkeys, showed them pictures of faces, and…
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How to Make Animated Line Charts in R
Sometimes it’s useful to animate the multiple lines instead of showing them all at once.
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Marrying Later, Staying Single Longer
Using a century of data, we watch the shift of marital status in the United States.
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Detailed satellite view of iceberg break
Using the thermal signature, NASA provides a detailed view of the break:
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Hidden oil patterns on bowling lanes
This explainer video by Vox on the oil patterns on bowling lanes was…
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Look to the data collection
Mimi Onuoha on the importance of paying close attention to the data collection…
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Iceberg scale, as described in different countries
A giant iceberg broke off from Antartica. Like, really big. Quartz collected the…
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Peak times for leisure and sports
The American Time Use Survey asks people what they do during the day.…
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Every solar eclipse in your lifetime
The continental United States gets a total solar eclipse on August 21, so…
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Infinite Twitter ad campaign, based on data profiles
As you probably know, Twitter (and all social media) collects data about you…
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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…