It’s easy to draw dots. The challenge is to make them meaningful and readable.
Nathan Yau
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How to Make Dot Plots in R
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Why study statistics
In their continued efforts to present statistics as a field that doesn’t suck,…
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LEGO explainer: Taxes and income inequality
LEGOs make everything better. David Wessel for Brookings Institution explains how federal taxes…
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It’s All Greek (or Chinese or Spanish or…) to Me
In English, there’s an idiom that notes confusion: “It’s all Greek to me.” Other languages have similar sayings, but they don’t use Greek as their point of confusion.
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Estimated number of Game of Thrones readers who have died
We know there are a lot of deaths in Game of Thrones, but…
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Asteroid database
Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google.…
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A tall graphic to show Mt. Everest scale
Mt. Everest is a tall mountain. How tall is it?? Glad you asked.…
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Color use in paintings, by year
Martin Bellander saw some projects that extracted color from movie posters and trailers,…
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Cocktail construction chart
Remember that engineer’s guide to drinks a while back? I think this one…
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Dick pics, privacy, and the NSA
Did you watch the latest Last Week Tonight with John Oliver yet? You…
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California water use per capita, by district
Matthew Bloch and Haeyoun Park for the New York Times mapped, for about…
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Gallons of water to produce foods
With all the talk recently about how much water it takes to grow…
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Every Game of Thrones death
I hear there’s a show called “Game of Thrones” on the T.V., where…
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State Income Tax Brackets Charted
I’m sure you finished your taxes months ago, but here’s a chart of…
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Purifying the Sea of PDF Data, Automatically →
Jeremy B. Merrill is working on the problem of too much data in PDF files. “My pattern solves this problem using tabula-extractor, the Ruby library (and command-line tool) that powers Tabula. It’s built to output data to CSVs or to a MySQL database.”
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Gestalt principles for visualization
Gestalt refers to our ability to see a whole from the parts, and…
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How We Spend Our Money, a Breakdown
We know spending changes when you have more money. Here’s by how much.
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Growth of urban neighborhood Wal-Mart
Maybe you saw the Wal-Mart growth map I made a while back. NPR…
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How to Make Line Charts in R
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