Robin We recollected her dating record over the past eight years.
Nathan Yau
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8 years of dating as a chart
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How to Make Maps in R That Include Alaska and Hawaii
The conterminous United States always gets the attention, while Alaska and Hawaii are often left out. It is time to bring them back into view.
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Bar Chart Baselines Start at Zero
There are visualization rules and there are visualization suggestions. Most are suggestions. The ones that are rules exist because of how our brains process visual information. There’s just no getting around it.
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Square mile grid-ness of the United States
Named after the grid system Thomas Jefferson used to apportion land acquired through…
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Minimum Wage Machine pays in pennies
Crank to earn a penny every 4.5 seconds.
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Extracting NBA player movement data
There’s no direct download, but there is an API.
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Live cyber attack map
Norse monitors cyber attacks in real-time. This is their map of what’s going…
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I’m doing a Reddit AMA
I’m doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow hosted by the DataIsBeautiful subreddit. It’ll be at 1:30pm EST on August 27, 2015.
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Subway complaints by station
This map of subway complaints in Madrid isn’t geographically relevant to me, but the encoding scheme is interesting.
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Making a hit song with Bieber, Diplo, and Skrillex
A visual layer set on top of the video interview makes the feelings understandable.
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Bias from bias from bias
It’s not easy being unbiased. It just makes you biased.
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sentimentr →
R package for sentiment detection.
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quartzFonts() →
Change graphic fonts with this R function in OS X.
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Same BMI, different body
The index needs an information supplement.
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Predictable Android lock patterns
Passwords are annoying, which is why so many people use passwords that are…
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Decent presidential candidate options.
I have no idea what’s going on here, and I prefer to keep…
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Lessons in statistical significance, uncertainty, and their role in science
Science is hard. Statistics is hard. Proving cause and effect is hard.
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Hearing color instead of seeing it
Neil Harbisson is completely color blind, so he has a device that lets him listen to color.
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Make grid maps in Python →
A quick script for squares and hexagons that outputs to SVG.
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Where the checked luggage goes
Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam put a camera on a piece of checked luggage…