An analysis by Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Nathaniel Hendren of NBER…
Nathan Yau
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Upward mobility and the potential for a better life
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Datalib →
“Datalib is a JavaScript data utility library. It provides facilities for data loading, type inference, common statistics, and string templates.”
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A Course for Visualization in R, Taking You From Beginner to Advanced
Where to start? What to learn next? Here’s a course to help take you from beginner to advanced.
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How to ask for datasets
There’s a lot of data readily available online. We know this. However, there’s…
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Black and White America compared as if they were countries
The Economist made a simple yet effective comparison of Black America and White…
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Mapping the Most Common Races
Select one or more races for a quick comparison. Counties are colored by the most prevalent.
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Self-printing a wall-sized world map
Dominik Schwarz wanted a big world map. A really big one that covered…
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Median home in America, over 40 years
The median home in America has changed in a variety of ways. Square…
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Earthquake magnitude and the logarithmic scale
The earthquake in Nepal was big, but there’s a discrepancy in just how…
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Fashion trends seen through Google searches
Fashion trends, such as skinny jeans and Palazzo pants, can spike and fall…
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Disaster risk indices estimate impact on people
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 can affect countries differently, depending on…
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Quick change of mind on social issues
As Supreme Court hearings for same-sex marriage start today, Alex Tribou and Keith…
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Recurring characters in film and the words used to describe them
Stereotropes, made by the Bocoup Data Visualization Team, explores the many tropes in…
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Why exploring big data is hard
The talks from OpenVisConf 2015 went up, so I’m slowly making my way…
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Emptied reservoirs in California
Winter is over and it’s shorts weather these days in California. This is…
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Book: Statistics Done Wrong is a guide for how to do statistics right
A while back Alex Reinhart, a statistics instructor and PhD student at Carnegie…
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Color timeline for Avengers comic book covers
The Avengers comic has been around since 1963 and the look and feel…
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Far fewer black men than black women
Justin Wolfers, David Leonhardt, and Kevin Quealy for the Upshot explore the gender…
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Wealth inequality explained in charts
Wealth inequality is a real thing that is complex and a result of…
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Awesome Public Datasets →
“This list of public data sources are collected and tidyed from blogs, answers, and user responses.”