With all of my frustrations with government sites, the education release feels pretty great.
Nathan Yau
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Detailed data release for U.S. college debt, graduation rate, and test scores
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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.
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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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