A while back we saw a size comparison of random spaceships. That one…
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Science fiction starships, an extensive size comparison
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Great Britain recreated in Minecraft
The Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain, mapped 220,000 square…
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Searching for other Earths
In a step-by-step narrative, produced by Adam Becker, MacGregor Campbell and Peter Aldhous…
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Impressive exploration of projection mapping
Projection mapping is the art of using physical objects as display surfaces and…
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The Most Unisex Names in US History
Moving on from the most trendy names in US history, let’s look at…
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Planet and moon resizer
It can be difficult to imagine the scale of planets and moons, because…
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Tracking criminal movements and predicting hot spots
In the latest SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Chaturapruek, et al. describe modeling…
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7 command-line tools for data science
A quick list of command-line tools to putz around with data.
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Acetaminophen availability around the world
Probublica has a detailed piece on the potential overuse of acetaminophen, commonly known…
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A visual explanation of Simpson’s Paradox
When you look for overall trends, you often poke around the data in…
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OpenStreetMap, the work of individuals visualized
In the continued series of meta-data-driven maps, OpenStreetMap shows the work of individuals…
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Dialect quiz shows where others talk like you do
North Carolina State statistics graduate student Joshua Katz already mapped dialect across the…
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Easier Census data browsing with CensusReporter
Census data can be interesting and super informative, but getting the data out…
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New data jobs this month
It’s been just under a month since the Job Board went up, and…
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Sasquatch sightings
Josh Stevens, a PhD candidate at Penn State, mapped 92 years of sasquatch…
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D.C. building heights study
Emily Chow and Gene Thorp for The Washington Post explored the change in…
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Excel paintings
Tatsuo Horiuchi wanted to learn something new before retiring, so he bought a…
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Fashion fingerprints →
In a collaborative effort at The New York Times, a Fashion Week browser…
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How you know you’re in an upscale neighborhood
By way of reddit, analog traces, or as they’re more commonly known: dirt.…
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Game map from Grand Theft Auto 5
With just five days left until Grand Theft Auto 5 is out, a…