Emily Underwood on new cartographers and the growing field:
Geographers have traditionally studied…
Nathan Yau
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A new brand of cartographer
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How to be Interesting by Jessica Hagy
Jessica Hagy, the one who made Venn diagrams on index cards popular, has…
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Monitor your surroundings with these sensors
It wasn’t long ago that sensors and personal tracking seemed like pure nerdery.…
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An exploration of how Oscar winners express gratitude
Each year, Oscar speeches seem to follow a similar format, with familiar names…
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Geo Point Plotter
Geo Point Plotter by Derek Watkins is a quick and dirty mapper. Copy and paste latitude and longitude coordinates, and you get a simple map with dots on it.
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John Snow’s Cholera data in more formats
John Snow’s Cholera data in more formats. Includes death locations, pump locations, the original map, and Ordinance Survey maps. This could be useful for a class or if you want to kick the tires on some mapping software.
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App shows what the Internet looks like
In a collaboration between PEER 1 Hosting, Steamclock Software, and Jeff Johnston, the…
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Other ways to follow FlowingData
With Google Reader closing its doors in July (which stinks because I use…
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A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator
A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator. An illustration of the Mercator map projection using pennies. There’s some distortion.
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Feltron 2012 Annual Report
Today might be pi day, but yesterday was Feltron Report day. The theme…
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Choosing the right seat →
It can be tricky picking the right seat at a dinner party. So…
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Nate Silver Discusses Data Bias, Strangeness of Fame
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Word tree for any URL or Twitter username
In 2007, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas created the word tree, a search…
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Data hackathon challenges and why questions are important
Jake Porway, executive director of DataKind on data hackathons and why they require…
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Amiigo: The exercise tracker that identifies exercises
Self-tracking devices are all the rage these days. I went to the Apple…
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What data brokers know about you
Lois Beckett for ProPublica has a thorough piece on data brokers — companies…
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Quandl
Quandl is a search engine for time series data. Similar to DataMarket, but probably with more straightforward download.
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FlowingData is brought to you by…
My many thanks to FlowingData sponsors who help keep the lights on around…
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The world as one city
When we build models of the world, we often think of it broken…
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Using search data to find drug side effects
Along the same lines as Google Flu Trends, researchers at Microsoft, Stanford and…