Statistician John Chambers, the creator of S and a core member of R,…
Nathan Yau
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How R came to be
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History through the president’s words →
The Washington Post visualized the use of specific words throughout the years during…
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Last day to pre-order quotes poster
It’s been an interesting few days. I thought a few people would find…
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Learn R interactively with the swirl package
R, the statistical computing language of choice and what I use the most,…
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What a computer sees while watching movies
Benjamin Grosser visualized how computers “watch” movies through vision algorithms and artificial intelligence…
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How to Map Geographic Paths in R
As people and things move through a place, it can be useful to see their connected paths instead of just individual points.
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FlowingData Job Board, January 2014
Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or statistics? There are openings…
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Public transit times in major cities
Last year, WNYC made an interactive map that shows transit times in New…
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Facebook debunks Princeton study
Researchers at Princeton released a study that said that Facebook was on the…
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Bird flight paths
Dennis Hlynsky, an artist and a professor at the Rhode Island School of…
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Using data to find a girlfriend
Remember when Amy Webb created a bunch of fake male profiles to scrape…
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A century of passenger air travel →
Kiln and the Guardian explored the 100-year history of passenger air travel, and…
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Movie quotes as charts, poster edition
Since so many of you kind people asked, the movie-quotes-as-charts graphic is now…
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Disney MagicBands track your theme park activities
You can now wear a MagicBand when you enter Disneyland to get a…
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Music timeline of plays and history
Two Google research groups, Big Picture and Music Intelligence, got together and made…
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Famous Movie Quotes as Charts →
In celebration of their 100-year anniversary, the American Film Institute selected the 100…
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Donald Duck family tree
The Donald Duck family tree is huge. Who knew? Above is only a…
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Lexical distance between European languages
Using data from linguistics research by Kostiantyn Tyshchenko, Teresa Elms clustered European languages…
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Map projections illustrated with a face
Most people, at least those who visit sites like FlowingData, know about map…
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Religion and life expectancy
The person in this cartoon nailed it. I’m going to do the same…