In distributed denial-of-service attack a bunch of machines make a bunch of requests…
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DDoS attack animation
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Lego venn diagram →
Profound.…
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ScraperWiki
Easily scrape tweets and download them as a spreadsheet with ScraperWiki.
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Medicare provider charge data released
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released billing data for more than…
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Personal data for sale
NYU ITP graduate student Federico Zannier collected data about himself — online browsing,…
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The Art of Data Visualization
PBS Off Book’s recent episode is on “the art of data visualization.” It…
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Sensory augmentation device
We’ve seen plenty of augmented reality where you put on some digitally-enabled glasses…
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Vector tiles
MapBox implemented vector tiles for both scalability and flexibility. “MapBox has developed an open source vector format to power the future of our web maps. Vector tiles rethink web maps from the ground up, providing a single efficient format to power raster tiles, interactive features, geojson streams, mobile renderers, and much more.” Be sure to scroll down to the examples.
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Meteorites seen falling since 2500BC visualized
About 35,000 meteorites have been recorded since 2500 BC, and a little over…
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Most creative
Nate Silver topped Fast Company’s list of 100 most creative people in business.
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A quarter century of satellite imagery
In collaboration between USGS, NASA and TIME, Google released a quarter century of…
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Convergence of Miss Korea faces
After seeing a Reddit post on the convergence of Miss Korea faces, supposedly…
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Coaches are highest paid public employees
Deadspin made a straightforward map that shows the highest paid public employee in…
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Ratings of TV shows over time
The quality of television shows follow all kinds of patterns. Some shows stink…
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Making the game of thrones visualization
Jerome Cukier describes the process behind making his Game of Thrones interactive.
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An exploration of recurring jokes on Arrested Development
Watch Arrested Development enough and you start to realize there are a lot…
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Map of live Wikipedia changes
On Wikipedia, there are constant edits by people around the world. You can…
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Geography of hate against gays, races, and the disabled
In a follow-up to their map of racist tweets towards Barack Obama, the…
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A Guide to Speeding Up R Code for Busy People
A Guide to Speeding Up R Code for Busy People. R can be slow at times. Here are some tips on getting it to go faster.
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Data Points: Sample chapter
It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since Data Points: Visualization…