From the machine learning course on Udacity, an a cappella group sings a…
Nathan Yau
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Machine learning a cappella on overfitting
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Military infographic fascination
Paul Ford describes his fascination with military infographics. Here’s what he has to…
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Beaker allows data exploration in various languages
Currently in beta, Beaker lets you work and experiment with data with different…
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The United States of Metrics isn’t such a bad thing
Bruce Feiler for The New York Times describes his concern and distaste for…
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Drought map shows extreme shortages
From the U.S. National Drought Monitor.
The entire state of California is in… -
A majority of your email in Gmail, even if you don’t use it
For reasons of autonomy, control, and privacy, Benjamin Mako Hill runs his own…
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Newborn false positives
Shutterfly sent promotional emails that congratulate new parents and encourage them to send…
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Alcohol consumption per drinker
We’ve seen rankings for alcohol consumption per capita around the world. These tend…
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Share your traces with a stranger
The MIT Media Lab Playful Systems group is working on an experiment in…
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Job Board, May 2014
Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or statistics? There are openings…
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Responsive data tables
Alyson Hurt for NPR Visuals describes how they make responsive data tables for…
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NBA basketball fans by ZIP code
After the popularity of The Upshot’s baseball fandom map, it’s no surprise the…
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Random things that correlate
This is fun. Tyler Vigen wrote a program that attempts to automatically find…
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Type I and II errors simplified
“Type I” and “Type II” errors, names first given by Jerzy Neyman and…
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Name popularity by state, animated by year
Using baby name data from the Social Security Administration, Brian Rowe made this…
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Optimizing your R code
Hadley Wickham offers a detailed, practical guide to finding and removing the major…
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Naked Statistics
Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan promises a fun, non-boring introduction to statistics that…
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Downloading Your Email Metadata
Email provides a window into who we interact with and what we do. This tutorial describes how to get that data in the format you want.
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Crystal clusters of world data
Artist Scott Kildall generates what he calls World Data Crystals by mapping data…
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Most underrated films
Ben Moore was curious about overrated and underrated films.
“Overrated” and “underrated” are…