I’m pretty sure xkcd is the only one who gets away with showing…
Nathan Yau
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xkcd: Dominant players in chess and basketball →
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Polling for stress →
NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health…
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Birth year and political leanings →
A statistical model, from Yair Ghitza of Catalist and Andrew Gelman of Columbia…
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Whaling in Japan explained →
After a ruling by the United Nations International Court of Justice, Japan was…
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19 Maps That Will Blow Your Mind and Change the Way You See the World. Top All-time. You Won’t Believe Your Eyes. Watch.
Many lists of maps promise to change the way you see the world, but this one actually does.
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Test your geographic knowledge in Google map game
Smarty Pins is a simple, fun map game by Google. You get a…
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Data trails explainer
We produce data all the time, everywhere we go, and this process implies…
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Filing cabinet follows people around, like a data trail
Jaap de Maat, a graduate student at the Royal College of Art, rigged…
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Data science, big data, and statistics – all together now
Terry Speed, a emeritus professor in statistics at University of California at Berkeley,…
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Jobs Charted by State and Salary
Jobs and pay can vary a lot depending on where you live, based on 2013 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here’s an interactive to look.
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Data Cuisine uses food as the medium
Ditch the computer screen for your data. It’s all about the food. Moritz…
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NSA programs with goofy names →
Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson for ProPublica made a chart of NSA programs…
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Subpar Captain America
Animation Domination High-Def has a Captain America video of things that America is…
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Bass Shapes visualizes sound in hand-drawn style
Media artist Nick Hardeman’s audio visualization app Bass Shapes was rejected by the…
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Visualizing algorithms →
Mike Bostock, who you might recognize from such things as Data-Driven Documents or…
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Super MIDI
Watch the notes rain down on those piano keys. Made with MIDItrail, a…
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Normal vs. paranormal distributions
By Matthew Freeman. This is important.…
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Real-time lightning map
Blitzortung is a community of volunteers who install inexpensive lightning sensors and transmit…
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Detailed UK census data browser
DataShine Census provides a detailed view into United Kingdom 2011 census data. Population,…
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Duck vs. rabbit plot
Not sure where this is from, but feel that tingle in the back…