Wikipedia has a list of predicted dates for when apocalypse strikes, because of…
Nathan Yau
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Past and future predictions of when the world will end
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An R package for chess move generation and validation.
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How to Make an Animated Pyramid Chart in R
Make a bunch of charts, string them together like a flip book, and there’s your animation. Sometimes good for showing changes over time. Always fun to play with.
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Meat and cancer
Why we should make a note but not freak out about it.
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Daylight you get from daylight saving
We recently fell back an hour with the end of this year’s Daylight…
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Melting Greenland
This map-centric piece from the New York Times is good. They keep refining…
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Fig diagram
From Gemma Correll. I am amused.…
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Neural Network for selfie analysis
To introduce Convolutional Neural Networks, Andrej Karpathy looked at millions of selfies, left…
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Pythagorean theorem water demo
This is years old, but it still tickles the neurons every time. It’s…
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Top Brewery Road Trip, Routed Algorithmically
There are a lot of great craft breweries in the United States, but there is only so much time. This is the computed best way to get to the top rated breweries and how to maximize the beer tasting experience. Every journey begins with a single sip.
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Vizable, for data exploration on an iPad
Vizable is a free iPad app from Tableau Software that helps you explore…
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Particles swirling in the atmosphere
Gavin Schmidt shows different types of particles that swirl around in our atmosphere:…
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Trifacta Wrangler to format and clean data
Data wrangling — formatting and cleaning — is a sore spot and stumbling…
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Stock trading game
Bloomberg Business has an interesting stock trading game with a simple premise. A…
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Evolving LEGO color palette
DaveE from the Brickset Forum was curious about the changing LEGO color palette,…
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Last Feltron Annual Report
Nicholas Felton released his 10th and final annual personal report. It’s the end…
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Water scroller
Here’s a nice scroller from Katie Park for the Washington Post. It shows…
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Value of body parts for injured workers
A detailed look at the state where companies can write their own workers’ compensation plans.
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Monopoly pieces to show presidential funding
According to the New York Times, 158 families funded about half of the…
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Work Counts
Looking at educational attainment, income, work hours, and commute, this is who has the same work life as you do.