In celebration of John Venn’s 180th birthday, today’s Google Doodle produces a Venn…
Nathan Yau
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Google Doodle Venn diagram →
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Cultural history via where notable people died
A group of researchers used where “notable individuals” were born and place of…
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Mathematically correct bagel
I don’t know about you, but I like my bagel as two roughly…
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This is Statistics
Statistics has an image problem. To the general public, it’s old, out of…
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Network visualization game to understand how a disease spreads →
Vax, a game by Ellsworth Campbell and Isaac Bromley, explores how a disease…
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Explorations of People Movements
A new data source gave rise to a different set of visualization projects. We see people.
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Civilian casualties in Gaza →
Lazaro Gamio and Richard Johnson for the Washington Post cover civilian deaths in…
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How well we don’t understand probability
All Things Considered on NPR ran a fine series on how we interpret…
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Too many numbers
Numbers is a short film by Robert Hloz where some people see numbers…
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A decade of Yelp review trends →
Yelp released an amusing tool that lets you see how the use of…
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Senator John Walsh plagiarism, color-coded →
John Walsh, the U.S. Senator from Montana, is in the news lately for…
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A more visual world data portal →
One of the most annoying parts of downloading data from large portals is…
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How to Make an Interactive Treemap
Treemaps are useful to view and explore hierarchical data. Interaction can help you look at the data in greater detail.
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Large-ish data packages in R
If you’ve played around with R enough, there comes a time when you…
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Editing photos as if they were audio files →
Masuma Ahuja and Denise Lu for the Washington Post applied a technique called…
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Voter approval rates as butt plugs
From a couple of years ago, but still relevant, I think. Matthew Epler…
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Misery index based on perceived temperature →
Late last year, Cameron Beccario made a wind map for earth, inspired by…
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You get a personal data site, and you get one, and you too →
Personal data collection keeps getting easier and more efficient. Much of what was…
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Flights around Ukraine →
The New York Times is covering Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with a series…
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Geologic map of Mars
The USGS released a more detailed geologic map of Mars, not just renderings…