Glenn Smith and Andrew Knapp for the Post and Courier investigate the current…
Nathan Yau
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Police surveillance in a digital world
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Oceans absorbing heat
It keeps getting hotter on this planet, and the oceans are absorbing most…
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xkcd: Earth temperature timeline
In classic xkcd-fashion, Randall Munroe timelines the Earth’s temperature, dating back to 20,000…
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Innovation by Design Awards
Co.Design picked the winners for their annual Innovation by Design Awards. My series…
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Watch bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotic
Scientists at Harvard University setup the MEGA-plate, essentially a giant petri dish, with…
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Swing states are a relatively new thing
Here’s a fun one from the Guardian. They go over the change in…
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Election DataBot provides a feed of the interesting data stories
There is a ton of election-related data pushed out every day, so much…
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Serena Williams, greatest of all time
Serena Williams, who plays tonight in the U.S. Open semifinal, might be the…
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How to Make Beeswarm Plots in R to Show Distributions
Try the more element-based approach instead of your traditional histogram or boxplot.
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Comma Chameleon, a stripped-down CSV editor
CSV files are great, but every now and then you have to edit…
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Radio station frequencies, by genre
In most areas in the United States, lower FM frequencies are reserved for…
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More global warming, more flooding
Water levels are rising, and naturally, the coasts are feeling it. Jonathan Corum…
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Oil fires in Iraq seen from above
Though far away, there’s still a lot you can see, as the NASA…
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Dear Data, the book
For a year, Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi drew data postcards and sent…
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Invention
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What Alcohol People Around the World Drink
Americans get most of their alcohol from beer, but it’s not like that everywhere.
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Sans human, Facebook’s Trending Topics algorithm faired poorly
Last week, Facebook announced that it was making the Trending Topics section more…
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Out of state, public education
Nick Strayer for the New York Times shows the flow of college freshman…
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D3 in Depth
D3 is the most commonly used JavaScript library for visualization on the web,…
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