Crime and data have an old history together, but because there are new…
Nathan Yau
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Predictive policing
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Who marries who, by profession
People with certain professions tend to marry others with a given profession. Adam…
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International impact of China’s economic slowdown
China’s economic slowdown means a major decline in imports from other countries, which…
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How to Make an Interactive Stacked Area Chart
Stacked area charts let you see categorical data over time. Interaction allows you to focus on specific categories without losing sight of the big picture.
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Suite of data tools for beginners, focused on fun
Data can be intimidating and confusing for beginners, and as a result they…
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Why People Visit the Emergency Room
These are the top 250 products that people injure themselves on or with in a year.
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Galaxy of cover songs
A fun one from Interactive Things that shows cover songs with a galaxy…
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Taxi ride volume during Super Bowl key moments
A high percentage of Americans are glued to the television or party sample…
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Wind prediction and potential power
As we use up current energy resources, it grows more important to look…
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Campaign Finance API moves to ProPublica
Back in 2008, the New York Times rolled out a campaign finance API…
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Catalog of criminal justice data
There’s a lot of data on criminal justice — prison populations, crime rates,…
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How do you learn d3.js? →
Small projects. Decide what you want to make first, and then figure out how to do it.
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Role of empathy in visualization
On the PolicyViz podcast, Kim Rees of Periscopic and Mushon Zer-Aviv of Shual…
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Small multiples for NBA game differentials
Adam Pearce charted minute-by-minute point differentials for NBA games during the 2014-15 season.…
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Yahoo News feed dataset for researchers →
A big ol’ dataset on interaction with the list of news items on the homepage.
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Grid map showdown →
A quantitative look at which US grid layout is best.
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Game: Guess the correlation
Guess the Correlation is a straightforward game where you do just that, and…
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Sum of life’s parts
What if you relived life’s activities in big clumps? Thirty years of sleeping…
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Same source, different styles →
Jaakko Seppälä drew ten comic characters, each in its original style and in…
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Satellite time-lapse of Earth
Charlie Loyd, who works with satellite imagery at Mapbox, put together a 12-second…