Clive Thompson for Smithsonian Magazine gives a quick history lesson on infographics.
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History lesson on data visualization
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Making the Seinfeld theme song with Bieber, Diplo, and Skrillex
Last year the New York Times interviewed Justin Bieber, Diplo, and Skrillex about…
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One year as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow →
Detailed description of what it’s like for someone with a stat-heavy background.
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Moving drought boundaries
Drought continues to trudge along. My grass is just about dead, save a…
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Charted history of music, from its origins to present
Musicmap is an attempt to show the history of music over time and…
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Annotating Charts in R
Let the data speak for itself they say. That doesn’t work a lot of the time, and when that happens, you need to explain.
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Graphing all the music
Glenn McDonald attempts to graph the musical space in its entirety on a…
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Election forecast tracker
FiveThirtyEight published their election forecast tracker this week, and it’s a beaut. It…
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Growth of cities, going back 6,000 years
Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma and Karen C. Seto compiled a dataset of urban…
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D3 4.0 released
I typically don’t care much about code releases, but every interactive chart I…
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Shifting Incomes for American Jobs
For various occupations, the difference between the person who makes the most and the one who makes the least can be significant.
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Gender equality in the movies, a screenplay analysis
Hollywood has been talking gender equality in the movies more than usual lately,…
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Another Data Point On the Way
We have another data point on the way, so it might suddenly go…
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Procedurally generated spaceships
Video game developer Michael Davies provides a Blender script to procedurally generate pretty…
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Sci-Fi short film scripted by machine learning algorithm
Filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin fed a machine learning algorithm with…
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Emoji semantic space
Dango is an Android app that predicts relevant emojis as you type. Xavier…
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What happened at Pulse in Orlando
The Tampa Bay Times takes you through a 3-D model of Pulse Nightclub…
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Who Still Smokes?
Two decades out from the first statewide ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces, here’s who still smokes.
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We spend more at restaurants than at grocery stores
For decades, Americans spent more money at the grocery store than at eating…
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Motion capture dance
Really fun. “Motion capture, procedural animation and dynamic simulations combine to create a…
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