To introduce Convolutional Neural Networks, Andrej Karpathy looked at millions of selfies, left…
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Neural Network for selfie analysis
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Pythagorean theorem water demo
This is years old, but it still tickles the neurons every time. It’s…
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Top Brewery Road Trip, Routed Algorithmically
There are a lot of great craft breweries in the United States, but there is only so much time. This is the computed best way to get to the top rated breweries and how to maximize the beer tasting experience. Every journey begins with a single sip.
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Vizable, for data exploration on an iPad
Vizable is a free iPad app from Tableau Software that helps you explore…
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Particles swirling in the atmosphere
Gavin Schmidt shows different types of particles that swirl around in our atmosphere:…
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Trifacta Wrangler to format and clean data
Data wrangling — formatting and cleaning — is a sore spot and stumbling…
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Stock trading game
Bloomberg Business has an interesting stock trading game with a simple premise. A…
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Evolving LEGO color palette
DaveE from the Brickset Forum was curious about the changing LEGO color palette,…
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Last Feltron Annual Report
Nicholas Felton released his 10th and final annual personal report. It’s the end…
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Water scroller
Here’s a nice scroller from Katie Park for the Washington Post. It shows…
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Value of body parts for injured workers
A detailed look at the state where companies can write their own workers’ compensation plans.
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Monopoly pieces to show presidential funding
According to the New York Times, 158 families funded about half of the…
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Work Counts
Looking at educational attainment, income, work hours, and commute, this is who has the same work life as you do.
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tigris →
A package to help you download and map TIGER shapefiles in R.
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A month in the life of personal location and messaging metadata
Data researcher and artist Mimi Onuoha looked at the personal location and messaging…
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NBA player career projections
Predictions for how NBA players will contribute to their teams, based on their own performance and history.
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A timeline of history
“I wish there was a timeline browser for all the historical events documented…
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Using stereotypes as an advantage
In 2004, Annie Duke won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions,…
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What to do with small data →
When the algorithms and methods for big data don’t work.
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Network Effect overwhelms with data
Network Effect by Jonathan Harris and Greg Hochmuth is a gathering of the…

















Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
