The Donald Duck family tree is huge. Who knew? Above is only a…
Nathan Yau
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Donald Duck family tree
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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…
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A visual exploration of refugee migrations
Hyperakt and Ekene Ijeoma visualized migrations over time and space in The Refugee…
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Cherry picking years for random sports statements
When you watch sports, it can sometimes feel like the stat guy pulls…
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Facial hair trends over time
In 1976, Dwight E. Robinson, an economist at the University of Washington, studied…
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Introducing R to a non-programmer, in an hour
Biostatistics PhD candidate Alyssa Frazee was tasked with teaching her sister, an undergraduate…
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Timeline shows a century of rock history
Jessica Edmondson visualized the history of rock music, from foundations in the pre-1900s…
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Happy new year around the world
New Year’s is a worldwide event, but as we know, it doesn’t happen…
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New members perk: Download all tutorials as ebook
The great thing about online tutorials is that you can access them from…
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How Netflix creates movie micro-genres
Alexis Madrigal and Ian Bogost for The Atlantic reverse engineered the Netflix genre…
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Body maps show where we feel emotion
Engineering and psychology researchers in Finland investigated where we feel and don’t feel.…
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Clusters of single malt Scotch whiskies
Luba Gloukhov of Revolution Analytics used k-means clustering to find groups of single…
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Statistics Done Wrong, a guide to common analysis mistakes
Alex Reinhart, a PhD statistics student at Carnegie Mellon University, covers some of…
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Weightless Project uses personal tracker data to abate hunger and obesity
The Weightless Project gives you another reason to use your Jawbone or Fitbit…
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Happy holidays
Checking out for the year. I assume most of you have already, and…
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FlowingData Job Board, December 2013
Looking to get a jumpstart on that new year’s resolution to find a…
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Iron Maiden uses piracy data for tour locations
When you hear “piracy data” and “music” in the same sentence, it usually…
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Evolution of reddit in stacked areas
Computer science PhD student Randy Olson likes to analyze reddit in his spare…