The Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, formerly one of the largest lakes in the…
Nathan Yau
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3-D paper model of a shrinking sea
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If the Moon were one pixel in size
Somehow these space-in-perspective graphics and interactives never get old. I guess the size…
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Disney business strategy chart, 1957
This is Walt Disney’s corporate strategy from 1957. The theatrical films serve as…
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See a 150mph tennis serve to your face
Hawk-Eye is a collection of technologies that allows high-granularity sports tracking, most notably…
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Earth time-lapse from 22,000 miles out
Japan has a new weather satellite in stationary orbit, Himawari-8, that takes a…
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Student’s Dilemma, a riff of the Prisoner version with extra credit
By way of Chris Volinsky, a quiz dilemma for students who want extra…
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Discrimination algorithms
Claire Cain Miller for the Upshot on when algorithms discriminate:
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Map of just the time zones
Kind of fun. Branden Rishel mapped just the time zones. No borders or…
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How we created an interactive map of Europe with 100k+ areas →
A lot of boundary areas, but still loads quickly.
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Make a map poster of anywhere
Map posters are easy to come by for major cities. But if you…
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Pluto reflectance map: Whale and the Donut
Using images taken by New Horizons between June 27 and July 3, this…
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Placement matching algorithms
Students want to get into a school, and schools want certain students. Match.…
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Journey to Pluto
The New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 and is set to…
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How to Make Horizon Graphs in R
The relatively new and lesser known time series visualization can be useful if you know what you’re looking at, and they take up a lot less space.
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A more realistic perspective of country sizes
Most of us have seen the True Size of Africa graphic that squishes…
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U.S. women’s soccer gameplan
I know next to nothing about soccer. Like there’s nothing, and then I’m…
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R Consortium for further development of community
The Linux Foundation announced the R Consortium to provide support to the R…
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Don’t let the maps fool you
Maps are fun to look at and get easier to make every day,…
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Problem solving game teaches statistics lesson →
From the Upshot, A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving. Play it.…
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Horizon Graphs, with a Food Pricing Example
The rarely used chart type for time series data is actually quite nice, once you get the hang of it. Although it does have its limitations.
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