In 2014, five people died in New Orleans in a house fire. Three…
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Predicting who needs a working fire alarm
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Fun in exchange for personal data
Sensible Data by Martin Hertig is an installation that asks what personal data…
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What probability means in different fields
Statistically, probability ranges from 0 to 1 — impossible to definitely without a…
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Weight loss and life events
Reddit user superemmjay tracked his weight for 20 months and plotted the measurements.…
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Classic 1939 book on graphs in its entirety
Willard Cope Brinton is credited as one of the pioneers of information visualization,…
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Interactive explanation for how neurons work
Nicky Case made an interactive explanation of how neurons work. It’s part narrated…
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Seaborn →
A Python library for visualization. Surprised I just heard of it.
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Taking Data Visualization From Eye Candy to Efficiency →
Sifting out some of the styles of contemporary data visualization.
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Years You Have Left to Live, Probably
The individual data points of life are much less predictable than the average. Here’s a simulation that shows you how much time is left on the clock.
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Gravity visualized in physics demo
Properties of time and space using marbles and two large pieces of spandex sewn together in a classroom demonstration.
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d3-jetpack →
Forgot about this. The d3-jetpack from Gregor Aisch makes some of the more tedious tasks in d3.js a bit shorter and intuitive.
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What interviewing for data science jobs is like
Trey Causey just finished an interview roundabout for data science jobs. He outlines…
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Power sources in each state
A clean and simple set of slope charts to show the change between 2000 and 2014.
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City layouts in 3-D
They look like little cardboard cutouts.
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Pascal’s triangle, not just a stack of numbers
SECRETS REVEALED.
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Death in Syria counted
In a striking representation by the New York Times, a dot represents each life lost.
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Who Earned a Higher Salary Than You
Work changed over the years. Salaries changed over the years. I was curious: If you compared your personal income from present day, how would it compare to the distribution of salaries in previous decades?
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Detailed data release for U.S. college debt, graduation rate, and test scores
With all of my frustrations with government sites, the education release feels pretty great.
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Automatic charts and insights in Google Sheets
So you have your data neat and tidy in a single spreadsheet, and…
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Turn a two-way mirror into an information display
Here’s a fun project to try over the weekend. Hannah Mitt and Andrew…