I tracked steps and sleep for the past month wearing the Jawbone UP24…
Nathan Yau
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Jawbone UP24 Review
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Explore where you’ve been with Visits
Visits, a research project by Alice Thudt, Dominikus Baur, and Sheelagh Carpendale from…
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Percentage of degrees conferred to men, by major
Based on estimates from the National Center for Education Statistics, Randy Olson plotted…
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R meme generator
Nobody asked for it, so you got it. The meme package for R…
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Employment-to-population ratios →
The Upshot posted an interesting chart that shows changing employment rate by state.…
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OpenGeofiction, the creation of an imaginary and realistic world
Sharing the same collaborative principles as OpenStreetMap, a wiki-based map for the real…
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What separates here from there
New Scientist quickly covers three theories of space and time in an informational…
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Data grab bag
— When you deal with data, you can think like a statistician, even…
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Truth Facts comic
I’m not sure how I just came across this now, but the Truth…
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A visual analysis of the Boston subway system
For a graduate project, Michael Barry and Brian Card explored the Boston subway…
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How to Make Government Data Sites Better
Accessing government data from the source is frustrating. If you’ve done it, or…
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Mercator projection with pole shifted to where you live
Drew Roos made a thing that lets you move the poles of the…
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Personal smart garden system tracks soil and water conditions
Edyn, a new project on Kickstarter, aims to make gardening easier by tracking…
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What a few thousand fake followers gets you
There are a lot of fake, spammy accounts on Twitter that come in…
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Jobs recovery and loss, by industry →
Jeremy Ashkenas and Alicia Parlapiano for The Upshot just plopped this interactive sucker…
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GDP rises in the UK after spending on illegal activities counted
The gross domestic product for the United Kingdom rose by 5% seemingly overnight,…
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NFL players getting bigger
Football players are getting bigger. Noah Veltman, a developer for the WNYC Data…
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Using open data to find the perfect home
Justin Palmer and his family have lived in a dense urban area of…
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How to Make Gridded, Equal-Distance Dot Maps
For when your geographic data is evenly spread rather than aggregated by government boundaries.
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A decade of college degrees
North by Northwestern looked closer at degrees awarded by their university over the…