Text can provide much needed context to traditional visual cues and can be used as a visual cue itself in some cases.
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How to Display Text in R
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Most popular girl names by state
Reuben Fischer-Baum looks at the most popular girl names by state, over the…
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Regional personality
Peter J. Rentfrow, et al. studied personality clusters across states using data from…
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Responsive maps with D3.js
A challenge these days with visualization is that a piece might look great…
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My data point
It’s been continuous tracking and monitoring for the past couple of days and…
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R plotting package ggplot2 ported to Python
Those who use the ggplot2 package in R and do everything else in…
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Super duper full-featured paper map
Check out this awesome new thing called MAP. It’s made of 100% sustainable…
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Pizza Place Geography
Most of the major pizza chains are within a 5-mile radius of where…
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Average man graphic renderings
James Hamblin for The Atlantic rendered the average American man based on BMI…
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Maritime traffic in the Baltic Sea, animated
Digital artist Lauri Vanhala animated a day of maritime traffic in the Baltic…
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Map of median home listing prices
In their continued efforts to help potential home buyers find out all they…
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Furloughed employees during shutdown
Dan Delany took a simple look at furloughed employees due to the government…
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Raw, a tool to turn spreadsheets to vector graphics
Sometimes it can be a challenge to produce data graphics in vector format,…
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Real-time media consumption
Last year, URL shortening service bitly and Forbes made a map that showed…
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Data point on the way
I’m at an age where my feed is filled with data points. Every…
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10 seconds of extreme trading
The video below shows ten seconds of trading on Blackberry on October 2,…
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Most visited site by country
Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata for Information Geographies mapped the most visited…
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Government data shutdown
When you go to the United States Census site, Data.gov, or similar government-run…
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Consequences of big data exclusions
Big data, in all its glory, promises insights into the soul of humankind.…
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Greco-Roman mapmaking
Measuring and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity opens at Institute for…