For the downtime post-turkey. James Trimble stuck the top 200 reddits of all…
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Top reddits of all time
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Your life in jellybeans
Using the effective jellybean method, Ze Frank describes the finite time we have.…
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The Baseline and Working with Time Series in R
A big part of statistics is comparisons, and perhaps more importantly, to figure out what to compare things to. Perspective changes with the baseline.
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Where the public radio is
Andrew Filer mapped the reach of public radio stations in the United Stations,…
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Super ZIP codes →
The Washington Post looked at Super ZIP codes, a classification based on household…
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Bokeh, a Python library for interactive visualization
Bokeh, a Python library by Continuum Analytics, helps you visualize your data on…
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Spectrogram shows dialup modem handshake sounds
Presented mostly for my fond memories as a grade schooler, with a fresh…
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Global forest change
Hansen, Potapov, Moore, Hancher et al. produced high-resolution maps of global forestry to…
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Bart Simpson and the cone of ignorance
Nice. See also Lisa Simpson on the curve of knowledge. [via reddit]…
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The Most Regional Names in US History
It was a challenge to choose a name for my son, someone who…
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Bourbon family tree
Colin Spoelman for GQ illustrated an educated guess of the bourbon family tree.…
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Databases for lazy people, a Python library
Friedrich Lindenberg and Gregor Aisch recently released dataset, a Python library to take…
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Why traffic waves and congestion happen
You’re on the freeway, traffic is moving along, and for no apparent reason…
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Prediction of sexual orientation through Facebook friends
Carter Jernigan and Behram F.T. Mistree found that sexual orientation of an individual…
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Up all night to get data, a music video parody
Neuroscience students at the University of California, San Diego made a music video…
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Running traces
The Endomondo app lets you keep track of your workouts, namely running and…
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The safest time to drive
As we’ve seen, there are more fatal car crashes during the weekend and…
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Infographic satire
SMBC pokes fun at big “informational” graphics with a self-referencing graphic that displays…
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Estimated coastlines if the ice melted
National Geographic imagined new coastlines (and the cities that would go under) if…
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Roomba traces
We’ve seen what happens when you turn on a Roomba and track its…