Some places attract young singles, whereas others attract married couples and families. I was curious how this varied across the country, so I mapped it.
Nathan Yau
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Relationship Status Geography
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Unclaimed remains
People die, and for various reasons many bodies go unclaimed. In Los Angeles…
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Berlin wall of lighted balloons
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lightgrenze, translated…
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Jeopardy! clues data
Here’s some weekend project data for you. Reddit user trexmatt dumped a dataset…
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Ballet dance traces
Electronic Traces, by Lesia Trubat, tracks ballet movements and allows dancers to see…
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Touchdown passing record
Peyton Manning, quarterback for the Denver Broncos, passed up Brett Favre’s career record…
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Senate results maps →
The New York Times pushed out super-detailed, precinct-level maps for the Senate election.…
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Chart of Cousins
For every family get-together I go to, it seems there are more kids running around. I know that they are related to me somehow, but what do I call them? Maybe this chart will help next time.
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Basketball shot
Todd Lindeman and Lazaro Gamio for the Washington Post explored shooting patterns for…
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Most cited research papers →
In the department of comparing large numbers to objects and situations that are…
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Relative size of astronomy stuff
Look! More size of very big things with large numbers, compared against things…
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Prostitution, GDP, and £1.7 billion due
David Spiegelhalter, professor of public understanding of risk, does some back-of-the-napkin math to…
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Decline of women in computer science
NPR spent some time on the subject of the decline of women in…
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Chess piece survival rates
On Quora, someone asked, “What are the chances of survival of individual chess…
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Statistically ignorant
Ipsos MORI, primarily a marketing research group I think, released results of their…
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Halloween costume rankings
Accompanying their segment on Halloween stores stocking costumes, NPR ranks bestsellers for the…
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Breakout detection in R
Say you have time series data and you want to detect significant changes,…
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Neurons conversing
Adam Cohen and his group are using genetically-modified neurons that light up when…
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Affordable Care Act progress report
The New York Times takes a data-centric look at the progress of the…
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Curse of dimensionality, interactive demo
Jeff Leek was trying to explain the curse of dimensionality and realized that…