Beer dates back thousands of centuries, but it was not the beer we…
Nathan Yau
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Evolution of beer
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Twitter slows competitor links
When you click a link on Twitter, you go through a Twitter shortlink…
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Calming Data
Chart-making provides a perspective that’s beyond my own, which can be calming.
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Crows might understand probabilities
Researchers at the University of Tübingen are studying crows’ abilities to understand statistical…
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Cooling a city
Tall buildings in dense cities can trap heat and restrict air flow, which…
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Life Expectancy of Pets
When looking into getting a pet, it’s important to consider life expectancy. You probably don’t want to accidentally sign up for a twenty-year commitment with an impulse adoption at the pet store.
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Evolution of Lego brick colors
Lego started with five brick colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and clear. The…
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Oldest and Youngest, by State
States aren’t uniformly young and old. Well, other than Maine. This is the breakdown by age group and regions.
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Why I Use R More than Python
Debates about which is best are useless. Go with what works for you, and never mind the rest.
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Visualization to better see true values in data
For Scientific American, Jack Murtagh describes the importance of visualization in understanding the…
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Very Expensive Maps
In the Very Expensive Maps podcast, cartographer Evan Applegate interviews other cartographers about…
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Tattoos and impulsiveness dataset
For their research on tattoos and choice, Bradley Ruffle and Anne Wilson provide…
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Shifting causes of death over the decades
Saloni Dattani, for Our World in Data, used a set of heatmaps to…
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Are we back yet?
In 2020, our everyday routines shifted dramatically, but over the past few years, it’s felt like things are getting back to where they were. How back are we?
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Chart Options for When the Scale is Squished by the Full Range of Data
Welcome to The Process, where we look closer at how the charts get…
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Flawed Rotten Tomatoes ratings
Rotten Tomatoes aggregates movie reviews to spit out a freshness score for each…
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Declining groundwater
The New York Times analyzed water levels across the country since 1920. In…
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Looking for the best pizza for different styles in different places
Locating the best pizza depends on where you are and what kind of…
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Clock plays a song with the current time in its title
For The Pudding, Russell Samora pulled songs via the Spotify API and made…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, August 2023 Roundup
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