John Nelson from IDV Solutions explains how he uses a Microsoft Excel hack…
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Excel heat map hack
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An R package for image processing.
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Statistics to weed out fraud
As the Michael LaCour brouhaha settles into the archives of the Internet and…
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Data journalism hoorah
In parallel to the Google Trends release, the Google News Lab produced a…
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Google Trends in real-time
Google Trends used to be a place where you looked up trends for…
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How to Make Variable Width Bar Charts in R
The code to create these bar chart variations is almost the same as if you were to make a standard bar chart. But make sure you get the math right.
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Traded animals
Based on data from the CITES Trade Database, “more than 27 million animals…
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Super Mario Bros. was designed on graph paper
Leading up to the release of Super Mario Maker, which lets you create…
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Computer program learns to play classic Nintendo games
I knew I had seen another automated video game thing before. Tom Murphy…
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CSV to HTML Table →
“Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table. Done in 100% JavaScript.”
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Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data
Due to budget cuts, there is no plan for an updated atlas. So I recreated the original 1870 Atlas using today’s publicly available data.
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Automated Super Mario World gameplay through machine learning
Seth Bling made a bot — MarI/O — that automatically learns how to…
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Quick reference guide to thematic cartography
Mapping data is so much about subtleties. The little things add up to…
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Spurious Correlations, the book
Last year Tyler Vigen put together a fun project that found strong correlation…
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On visualizing data well
On Writing Well by William Zinsser is a bestselling guide on writing well.…
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R is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success
Most people who use R on the regular learned the language in the…
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Oldest person in the world keeps dying
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Loans from Freddie and Fannie that defaulted after the bubble
Under the directive of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, started to release detailed…
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Reddit button ends, and here’s the click data
On April 1, Reddit posted a simple button with a 60-second timer that…
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Cost to replace cable with streaming services, etc
The Washington Post has a straightforward calculator to figure out how much it…
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