After seeing this post that highlights racist tweets after the election, Floating Sheep…
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Mapping racist tweets
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Data visualization as cultural phenomenon
In 1979, Joy Division released their album Unknown Pleasures, and the cover was…
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Maps before maps
Amanda Uren has a fun collection of map-like scans from the 11th century.…
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Why fiction writers should learn math →
About process and details
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How Nate Silver won the election with Data Science →
How Nate Silver won the election with Data Science. Statisticians won this round.
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How Silver predictions performed
By way of Rafa Irizarry from Simply Statistics, a plot of Nate Silver’s…
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What should we expect from Silver? →
At least one state wrong, and likely two or three
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Tracking the election tonight
As the results roll in tonight, you have plenty of options to keep…
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Charting Election Night →
NYT graphics has a tumblr for election night
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2012 political donations mapped over time
Following their animated and narrated visualization on political contributions over time, VisPolitics maps…
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Wen Family Empire →
Interesting organization to show flow in a network diagram
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Power outages during Hurricane Sandy →
Opting for a string of images generated in R rather than generate them with SVG/JavaScript
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1,400 rectangles →
Ratios drawn by a bunch of math teachers
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All possible paths to the White House
With the election tomorrow, Mike Bostock and Shan Carter for the New York…
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History of film, 100 years in a chart
In something of an homage to the Genealogy of Pop & Rock Music…
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Big Data Right Now: Five Trendy Open Source Technologies →
Not sure if he knows what he’s talking about but hey, R is in there
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Purists stay clear; many rules to be broken →
Honestly wouldn’t have considered some of these rules in the first place, but some good points
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Beauty in movement
For the Made by Humans exhibit at the Hyundai Vision Hall in South…
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A quick lesson on making predictions
Political analyst and statistician Nate Silver has gotten some flack lately for consistently…
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Watching Sandy in R →
Code to make a hurricane map [via]