In a multipart special report, The Washington Post investigated homicides in the nation’s…
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Tracking homicides in Washington, D.C. →
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Data Heroes: Sisi Wei →
On her work with DataKind and The Washington Post, “wrangling complicated data can be abnormally satisfying.”
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Masterful design of the everyday baggage tag
Pilot Mark Vanhoenacker describes the history and careful design of the everyday baggage…
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Dual Degree: Journalism and Computer Science →
Registration for new master’s program now open; my adviser is the director and it’s going to be amazing
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Evolution of the Flowers →
Stamen on the process behind creating the spreading animation for Facebook Stories
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Visually Marketplace →
Connects clients to infographic designers; seems good on the surface but still makes me uneasy
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ReConstitution recreates debates through transcripts and language processing
ReConstitution 2012, a fun experiment by Sosolimited, processes transcripts from the presidential debates,…
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Why becoming a data scientist isn’t easy →
In response to this
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Shifting states over the decades, between Democrat and Republican →
Mike Bostock and Shan Carter visualized how states have shifted parties over the…
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D3 tutorial →
Number of examples from VisWeek workshop [via]
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Solar energy potential, mapped in Cambridge →
Sustainable Design Lab at MIT and MoDe Studio estimated the potential hotspots for…
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R Programming Efficiency →
Slidedeck on how to write more efficient code
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mbostock →
Lots of D3 snippets and projects by the creator
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Pixel states →
T-shirts with pixellated states
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How Much Is a Professor Worth? →
For the effort to become one, not much
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Paris and the Data Mind →
A story of a man and his Fitbit
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How viral photos spread on Facebook
Number of likes and shares for a Facebook post are just simple aggregates…
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Not enough donut
From the October 10 Boston Metro. Oops. [via]…
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Microsoft Patents 1826 Choropleth Map Technique →
That can’t be good.
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State of polar bear populations →
There are an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears in the world, and…