Remember those running maps I made with limited data from RunKeeper? Strava, which…
Nathan Yau
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Where people bike and run, worldwide
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The Change My Son Brought, Seen Through Personal Data
I combed through personal data that I’ve actively and passively collected since early graduate school to see how life is different now with a 6-month old.
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The Upshot, a data-centric site from The New York Times launched
We heard a little bit about The Upshot last month. Now we get…
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Music preference by region
Movoto mapped music preference for various genres, across the United States.
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How people die in America
Matthew Klein for Bloomberg View explored mortality in America through a slidedeck of…
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Where nobody lives
We’ve seen the map of where everyone lives. Now here’s the reverse of…
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A principal component analysis step-by-step
Sebastian Raschka offers a step-by-step tutorial for a principal component analysis in Python.…
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Analysis of Bob Ross paintings
As a lesson on conditional probability for himself, Walt Hickey watched 403 episodes…
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Weird stacked area map thing
This chart-map-looking thing from Nightly News is making the rounds, and it’s not…
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Mapping a century of earthquakes →
Earthquakes are in the news a lot lately. A quick search shows a…
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Five decades of warm and cold weather anomalies
This year’s polar vortex churned up some global warming skeptics, but as we…
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Porn views for red versus blue states
Pornhub continues their analysis of porn viewing demographics in their latest comparison of…
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Job Board, April 2014
Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or statistics? There are openings…
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Using Census survey data properly
The American Community Survey, an ongoing survey that the Census administers to millions…
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Bracket picks of the masses versus sports pundits
Stephen Pettigrew and Reuben Fischer-Baum, for Regressing, compared 11 million brackets on ESPN.com…
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High-detail maps with Disser
Open data consultancy Conveyal released Disser, a command-line tool to disaggregate geographic data…
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Independent coffee shops and community
As part of the You Are Here project from the MIT Media Lab,…
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Extract CSV data from PDF files with Tabula
Tabula, by Manuel Aristarán, came out months ago, but I’ve been poking at…
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Regional macrobrews
FloatingSheep pointed their Twitter geography towards beer (and wine).
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Fox News bar chart gets it wrong
Because Fox News. See also this, this, and this. [Thanks, Meron]…