In a striking representation by the New York Times, a dot represents each life lost.
Nathan Yau
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Death in Syria counted
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Who Earned a Higher Salary Than You
Work changed over the years. Salaries changed over the years. I was curious: If you compared your personal income from present day, how would it compare to the distribution of salaries in previous decades?
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Detailed data release for U.S. college debt, graduation rate, and test scores
With all of my frustrations with government sites, the education release feels pretty great.
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Automatic charts and insights in Google Sheets
So you have your data neat and tidy in a single spreadsheet, and…
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Turn a two-way mirror into an information display
Here’s a fun project to try over the weekend. Hannah Mitt and Andrew…
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Way more trees than previously thought, new estimates show
There are a lot of trees on this planet.
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Death of apps via tweets
Apps peak and die on a regular basis. One day everyone is giving…
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Searching for stock market spoofers
A stepper from Bloomberg that explains how spoofers put in fake orders to game the market.
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Venn Diagrams: Read and Use Them the Right Way
Venn diagrams seem straightforward, but why all the mistakes? Here’s a guide to avoid the snafus.
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Maps to understand tennis
Damien Saunder, a cartographer at ESRI, likes to use mapping methods to evaluate…
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Mike Bostock AMA →
The creator of d3.js is answering questions on reddit right now. Saving for later, as I am sure there will be many interesting bits.
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R course material →
A small set of tutorials to learn the basics of R.
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Focusing on the full picture with data
I don’t know the full context of this discussion, but in the interview…
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Bayesian fantasy football 101
Because of course.
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Weevmee: Your Instagram photos turned artistic images
Weevmee autogenrates a woven-like image, based on your Instagram photos.
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Be a tennis line judge: Interactive tests your skills
Watch video clips from the judge’s point of view and try to make the call.
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Work with Google Sheets in R →
Use the googlesheets package to import data.
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Immigrant America
A dot density map showing one dot for every 20 immigrants.
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Lessons from the Student’s Dilemma, the extra credit version of the Prisoner’s
Dylan Selterman, a psychology lecturer at the University of Maryland, presents the above…
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8 years of dating as a chart
Robin We recollected her dating record over the past eight years.