This is a fun one that’s weirdly suspenseful. Everyday thresholds, like the slow…
Nathan Yau
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Everyday thresholds visualized in dramatic fashion
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xkcd: Ensemble model
That xkcd is such a joker. Munroe should start a comic.…
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Most frequent how-tos we search for
Xaquín G.V., in collaboration with the Google News Lab, investigated what people around…
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Thirty years of floods
Based on data from the Dartmouth Flood Observatory, Lazaro Gamio for Axios mapped…
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Using an audience’s own data to highlight both play and security
This is great. Daniel Goddemeyer and Dominikus Baur made Data Futures, which collects…
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Measuring things with ships
We might be in an age of big data, but people have been…
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Occupation Matchmaker
This is who marries whom, based on what one does for a living.
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Harvey rainfall map
In case you didn’t hear, Houston is getting some rain due to Hurricane…
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Data Comics
Comics are a way to tell stories and for a while now, people…
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Color profiles of every Game of Thrones episode
As the final episode of Game of Thrones nears, Kavya Sukumar for Vox…
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Flights passing through the shadow of the sun
Here’s a neat one by John Muyskens for The Washington Post. Using data…
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Q&A with This is Statistics
I did a quick Q&A with This is Statistics recently. It’s an ongoing…
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Son’s First Bar Graph Lesson
I gave my son his first bar graph lesson today. Let’s just appreciate…
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He vs. She in film screenplay direction
In screenplays, there are directions that tell actors and actresses what to do…
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C’est la vis, teaching kids how to visualize data
By adulthood, it’s expected that we can read charts to some degree. You’re…
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Sunsquatch, the only eclipse map you need
It’s solar eclipse time. There have been a lot of maps leading up…
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Catalog of visualization types to find the one that fits your dataset
There are a lot of visualization methods to choose from, and it can…
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Killings of blacks by whites ruled “justified”
In a collaboration between The Marshall Project and The Upshot, Daniel Lathrop and…
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Photorealistic balls of precious metals placed outside their mines
Artist Dillon Marsh uses CGI balls of metal placed outside of mines to…
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Useless Data Comparisons
Apples and oranges situations where the comparisons make no sense.