I’m not sure what these digitally rendered Lego blocks by JR Schmidt represent,…
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Lego New York
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HOLO Magazine →
A kickstarter to explore “the convergence of art, science and technology”
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Nate Silver on Deadspin →
“Bayes, duh.”
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Beautiful interactive tour of the galaxy
In a beautiful rendition of the galaxy, Google visualized 100,000 stars, starting at…
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Pattern →
Web mining module for Python
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Exploration of Hewlett grants
Since 2000, the Hewlett Foundation has made over 7,000 grants summing $3.86 billion,…
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Returning to Visualizations →
Slidedeck from Rachel Binx’s talk
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Computational thinking and life skills →
“Focus on understanding why the program is doing what it’s doing, rather than why it’s not doing what you wanted it to.”
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Shiny allows web applications with R
RStudio, the folks behind the IDE for R released last year, continues to…
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RStudio release “makes it super simple for R users like you to turn analyses into interactive web applications”
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Mitt Romney losing likes on Facebook, in real-time
If you go to the Facebook page for Mitt Romney, note the number…
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How to fail three tests in one chart →
Design exercise versus straight charts
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50 percent →
Meta. Is it people’s interest, or is it actually 50 percent of statistics…
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How to Make an Interactive Choropleth Map
When presented with a static graphic, it can be useful to see specific values after you see overall patterns. This tutorial shows you how to add simple interactions to a choropleth map so you can get specifics for regions.
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Incredibly divided nation in a map
I knew things were bad, but I didn’t know they were this bad.…
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Mapping racist tweets
After seeing this post that highlights racist tweets after the election, Floating Sheep…
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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.