Available in print. See also: a video version. Still no confirmation for whether…
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Evolution of Batman logo, 1940-2012
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Earth as Art book from NASA
The Earth as Art is a compilation of NASA satellite imagery that shows…
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D3 3.0 →
Built-in geographic projections, better transitions, and more extensive asynchronous requests
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Data Analysis (with R) on Coursera
Jeff Leek, an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…
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An Illustrator to TileMill workflow →
It usually moves the other direction.
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Your tax rate in 2012, and past rates since 1913
What is your effective tax rate now versus years past? Ritchie King made…
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Longer life expectancy, more years of disease
Bonnie Berkowitz, Emily Chow and Todd Lindeman for the Washington Post plotted life…
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Twitter archive download →
Finally, Twitter rolls out a feature to download all of your tweets as one file. They’re slowly making it available to users.
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CSV Logger →
A simple iPhone app to keep track of what you want and store it in CSV format
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Research-quality datasets →
A wide variety of datasets you can actually do stuff with
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National Rifle Association grades for Congress members →
The New York Times mapped ratings for members of Congress, as given by…
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Graphs explained →
Primer on network diagrams. See also.
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Animated growth of an organization
A company grows, it shrinks, people come and go. Justin Matejka, a research…
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Small multiples with details on demand →
Small charts. Click. Big chart.
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Getting Started with Charts in R
You get a lot of bang for the buck with R, charting-wise, but it can be confusing at first, especially if you’ve never written code. Here are some examples to get started.
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Solving for W →
I’ve been on a statistics-for-basketball spree as of late
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An introduction to diagrams
As a teaser for a larger project on diagrams, Jane Nisselson describes how…
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Sitegeist: A mobile app that tells you about your data surroundings
From businesses to demographics, there’s data for just about anywhere you are. Sitegeist,…
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An ideal bookshelf
Thessaly La Force, with illustrator Jane Mount, recently published My Ideal Bookshelf, which…
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How Obama’s data scientists built a volunteer army →
Changing times and new ways to reach people