There was a time when the best way to get a view from…
Nathan Yau
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Balloon maps
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National Geographic Infographics, the book
Infographics devolved a bit in recent years, but there was a time the…
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Data with the feels
Data can be fact and analytical. It can help you make objective decisions.…
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Going local on gun violence
Sometimes data can look really noisy when you zoom in close, and so…
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Football catches visualized
It’s always fun to go back to sports articles and graphics that were…
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How to Make an Animated Map in R, Part 4
In the the last part of the four-part series, you make a longer animation with more data and annotate.
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Giant map for inauguration planning
In planning for the upcoming inauguration, the U.S. military is using a giant…
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Change in rain, 2016
In some areas of the United States it poured down rain, which caused…
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Looking for America’s heartland
By definition, heartland is some central place of importance of a country. But…
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Charting friend demographics over time
We tend to think of demographics on a large scale. Countries, counties, and…
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2016.
That was fast. Just when you get used to dating with 2016, 2017…
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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2016
Here are my favorites for the year.
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U.S. culture through TV show geography
Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…
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Where people use certain words
Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz mapped the top 100,000 words used in tweets. Search…
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How Bayesian inference works
You might remember Bayes mentioned a few times in your introduction to statistics…
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Interpolate your data for animation in R
The tweenr package in R, by Thomas Lin Pedersen, helps you interpolate data…
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Minimizing discrimination in machine learning
From Google Research, a look at how discrimination in machine learning can lead…
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Map of New York City shadows
Shadows cast by buildings affect the feel and flow of a city, and…
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Christmas Movies as Charts
‘Tis the season.
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Following the carbon dioxide
This animated visualization from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows a model of…