Global Forest Watch uses satellite imagery and other technologies to estimate forest usage,…
Nathan Yau
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Near-real-time global forest watch
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A human-readable explorer for SEC filings
Maris Jensen just made SEC filings readable by humans. The motivation:
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Using slime mold to find the best motorway routes
This is all sorts of neat. Researchers Andrew Adamatzky and Ramon Alonso-Sanz are…
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Why we think of north pointing up
Nick Danforth for Al Jazeera delves into the history books for why north…
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A visual explanation of conditional probability
Victor Powell, who has visualized the Central Limit Theorem and Simpson’s Paradox, most…
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Surviving on minimum wage →
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Data grab bag
— Using Dates and Times in R.
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Reporter app, for self-discovery through data
Nicholas Felton, Drew Breunig, and Friends of the Web released Reporter for iPhone.…
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Basketball analytics
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Interactive maps with R
You can make static maps in R relatively well, if you know what…
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Olympic event explainer videos
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Disinformation visualization
Mushon Zer-Aviv offers up examples and guidance on lying with visualization.
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Texting data to save lives
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Map: US bus and Amtrak routes
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Olympic events placed in New York for scale →
The New York Times published a fun piece that places Winter Olympic events…
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Where People Run in Major Cities
There are many exercise apps that allow you to keep track of your…
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Quotes poster updates
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Places in the US with the most pleasant days per year
We’ve seen plenty of maps the past few weeks that show how bad…
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Digitally revamped atlas of historical geography, from 1932
In 1932, Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright published Atlas of the…
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Amount of snow to cancel school
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