Rarely do you have evenly-spaced data across an entire geographic space. Here is a way to fill in the gaps.
Nathan Yau
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Transitioning Map, Part 1: Mapping Irregular Data with Interpolation in R
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Trump bar chart baselines are the worst baselines. Sad.
The Donald Trump campaign has a habit of highlighting poll results with a…
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Interactive charts in R
Interactive charts in R are still so-so, but if you don’t mind giving…
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Composite photos of airplanes in flight
Photographer Mike Kelley visited airports around the world, took pictures of airplanes leaving,…
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@HillaryClinton vs. @realDonaldTrump
A comparison of the words unique to the candidates on Twitter.
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Using clustering to make a color scale
Choice of color scale can make a big difference in how the data…
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Seeking solace in data
I think many of us can relate to this during the odd election…
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Visions penned by the 18th century king of Prussia
Past Visions, a visual archive of Frederick William IV’s, shows thousands of drawings…
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Unemployment in America, Mapped Over Time
Watch the regional changes across the country from 1990 to 2016.
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Tron-style slippy map
Mapzen just released a Tron-style slippy map.
Today we introduce TRON version 2… -
How one man shifts national polls
I love the statistics lessons coming out of the Upshot, in the context…
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Tilegrams in R
Last month Pitch Interactive launched an online tool for tiled cartograms, or tilegrams…
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All the Harry Potter spells, when they were used
I often stare far into the distance and ponder world’s greatest questions —…
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Deep fried data
Maciej Ceglowski, the creator of bookmarking site Pinboard, spoke at the Library of…
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Century of Florida hurricanes
Florida has seen a lot of hurricanes come and go. Lazaro Gamio for…
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Doctors’ political leanings
Based on data from researchers at Yale, the Upshot charts party registration by…
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Learning R Versus d3.js for Visualization
For those who work with R and d3.js, the differences between the two…
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Hurricane Matthew en route
Stay safe, Florida.…
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An analysis of The Simpsons
The Simpsons is in its 27th season. That’s a lot of d’ohs. Todd…
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Classical music visualized
Artist Nicholas Rouguex visualized some musical scores in his project Off the Staff.…