Jeff Leek was trying to explain the curse of dimensionality and realized that…
Nathan Yau
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Curse of dimensionality, interactive demo
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Data Fluency is Out Now
Data Fluency: Empowering Your Organization with Effective Data Communication, by Zach and Chris…
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Job Board, October 2014
Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or statistics? There are openings…
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New York Times mapmakers
When news breaks, maps often accompany stories (or the maps are the story),…
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Visual summary of skateboarding tournament
George Murphy visualized the results of this year’s skateboarding tournament Battle at the…
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Moving Past Default R Charts
Customizing your charts doesn’t have to be a time-intensive process. With just a teeny bit more effort, you can get something that fits your needs.
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F1 racing winners and age
So here’s a sport I don’t see or hear much about. F1 racing,…
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Cynthia Brewer profile
Wired wrote a short profile for Cynthia Brewer, best known for Color Brewer,…
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Your life on Earth
The BBC has a fun piece that shows changes over your lifetime. Enter…
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A healthy versus unhealthy office environment
In an interesting use of the before-and-after slider, this Washington Post graphic by…
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Data Fluency, Coming Soon
There’s a new addition to the FlowingData book series on the way.
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Map of book subjects on Internet Archive
The Internet Archive makes millions of digitized books available in the form of…
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How basketball rebounds work
Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, looked at how rebounds work in…
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Equal population mapper
We know that there are more people per square mile in some places…
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Road grid orientation in major cities
This is what you get when you group streets by their geographic orientation…
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Geographic smell maps
Kate McLean, a PhD candidate in Information Experience Design at the Royal College…
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10,000 League of Legends matches, all at once
League of Legends is an online, free-to-play game that pits two teams of…
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Fallacy of point-and-click analysis
Jeff Leek touches on concerns about point-and-click software to find the insights in…
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Ebola spreading, a simulation
As a way to understand the deadliness and spread of Ebola, the Washington…
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Skateboard physics
Aatish Bhatia, a recent physics PhD, describes the forces involved to do a…