These are my picks for the best of 2015. As usual, they could easily appear in a different order on a different day, and there are projects not on the list that were also excellent.
Nathan Yau
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10 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2015
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All known planets outside our solar system
Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with Visualized, shows all known exoplanets (currently 1,942…
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Tour of a million stars
The Online Star Register takes you through a delightful view of a million…
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Timelines show Star Wars character interactions
Remember when xkcd charted character interactions for fictional stories? Inspired by that and…
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Mathematical gift wrapping
Mathematician Katie Steckles shows logical solutions to wrapping variously shaped presents.
I could’ve…
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Squaire.js →
JavaScript library from Wall Street Journal to make the now popular square state grid.
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k-means + d3.js →
The simple clustering technique implemented with d3.js.
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A Day in the Life of Americans
I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.
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Tinder robot behaves to palm sweatiness
Take all the guesswork out of finding “love” on Tinder, and let the…
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Guide for dealing with bad data
Enter the real world of data and statistics, and you find that files…
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All the roads that lead to Rome
As the saying goes, “All roads lead to Rome.” Folks at the moovel…
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Blueprint for a carbon-free world
Getting to 100 percent renewable energy seems like such a far away goal…
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Plant life cycle shows a breathing Earth
NASA mapped the annual cycle of all plant life on the planet in…
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Mass shootings count – Depends on your definition
With recent events, you’ve likely seen the articles and graphics that get into…
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How various demographic groups can change the election result
Does your vote matter? Aaron Bycoffe and David Wasserman for FiveThirtyEight provide an…
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Numbers quiz tests how well you know your country
In their annual survey that tests public perception against reality, Ipsos Mori asked…
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How to Make an Interactive Bar Chart With a Slider
Provide a slider for the standard bar chart so that users can shift focus to a point of interest.
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Sunset quality forecasting
Forget temperature and rain weather forecasts. I want to know when the sunset…
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Ant time-lapse shows movement patterns
Ant activity can seem mysterious at times. The pack seems to start out…
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