With wearables and cheaper and advancing tech, the how part of personal data…
Nathan Yau
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Upgraded self, but there’s a catch
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mapturner →
“A command line utility for generating topojson from various data sources for fast maps.” Useful for use with D3.
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Animated history of US county boundaries
Here’s a straightforward animation that shows US county boundaries change between 1629 and…
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Estimated age based on your name
A while back, Nate Silver and Allison McCann for FiveThirtyEight estimated age based…
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Data as a verb
As in, you data me, I data you, and they data us. Jer…
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A year of earthquakes
Fathom provides an interactive browser for a year of earthquakes, based on data…
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Sandwich Place Geography
Subway dominates the sandwich chains.
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The Great Grid Map Debate of 2015
There’s been a sudden bump in grid maps lately taking the place of…
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The big companies behind organic food brands
When you walk down the aisles of the grocery store, there are probably…
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Illegal to collect environmental data in Wyoming
Wyoming just passed a law that makes it illegal to collect data about…
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#DrunkTufte
There were some blips on Twitter last week for the DrunkTufte hashtag for…
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Problems with algorithmic policy-making
Virginia Eubanks for Slate describes the dangers of relying too heavily on black-boxed…
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Visualization is growing up
For a while, somewhere in between 2007 and 2011, infographics — in the…
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Rising beef prices and cattle theft
Eric Benson for FiveThirtyEight delves into cattle theft, which can cost an owner…
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Upward mobility and the potential for a better life
An analysis by Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Nathaniel Hendren of NBER…
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Datalib →
“Datalib is a JavaScript data utility library. It provides facilities for data loading, type inference, common statistics, and string templates.”
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A Course for Visualization in R, Taking You From Beginner to Advanced
Where to start? What to learn next? Here’s a course to help take you from beginner to advanced.
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How to ask for datasets
There’s a lot of data readily available online. We know this. However, there’s…
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Black and White America compared as if they were countries
The Economist made a simple yet effective comparison of Black America and White…
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Mapping the Most Common Races
Select one or more races for a quick comparison. Counties are colored by the most prevalent.