Pantheon, a project from the Macro Connections group at The MIT Media Lab,…
Nathan Yau
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An exploration of cultural production
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Coffee Place Geography
My fascination with the geography of place and businesses continues.
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Job Board, March 2014
Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or statistics? There are openings…
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Gambling data as a proxy for excitement in sports
After he noticed gambling odds fluctuate wildly at the end of a football…
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Beer me, Minnesota
The Star Tribune has a fun interactive that recommends Minnesota brews, based on…
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Where time comes from
The Atlantic interviewed Dr. Demetrios Matsakis, Chief Scientist for Time Services at the…
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How people really read and share online
Tony Haile discusses how we read and share online, based on actual data.…
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The important parts of data analysis
There’s plenty of software to muck around with data, but to gain the…
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The New York Times announced their data-driven news site, The Upshot
John McDuling for Quartz writes about the FiveThirtyEight replacement.
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UP Coffee app helps you track and understand caffeine consumption
How much caffeine can you consume during the day and still fall asleep…
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Statistical concepts explained through dance
Forget bell curves, jellybeans, and coin flips to explain statistical concepts. Dancing Statistics…
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Before and after lot vacancy
Justin Blinder used New York’s city planning dataset and Google Streetview for a…
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Find new beers to drink
Based on reviews from BeerAdvocate, Beer Viz, a visualization class project, asks you…
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Basketball movements visualized
The NBA has been kind of gaga over data the past few years,…
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ProPublica opened a data store
One of the main challenges of any data project is getting the data.…
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Solar time versus standard time around the world
After noting the later dinner time in Spain, Stefano Maggiolo noted relatively late…
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Why you should buy the bigger pizza
Because you get more pizza to eat, and if you don’t finish it,…
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How to Read and Use Histograms in R
The chart type often goes overlooked because people don’t understand them. Maybe this will help.
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Job Board, February 2014
Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or statistics? There are openings…
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Game theory to win game shows
I like how a little bit of game theory has crept into Jeopardy!…