We’ve seen the map of where everyone lives. Now here’s the reverse of…
Nathan Yau
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Where nobody lives
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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]…
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Big data, same statistical challenges
Tim Harford for Financial Times on big data and how the same problems…
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Open access to 20,000 maps from NYPL
The New York Public Library announced open access to 20,000 maps, making them…
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Planetary layer cake
From Cakecrumbs, a product that helps you learn while you eat: planetary layer…
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Bike share data in New York, animated
Citi Bike, also known as NYC Bike Share, is releasing monthly data dumps…
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Dead links on the Million Dollar Homepage →
Remember the Million Dollar Homepage from 2005? It sold ad space to anyone…