The geographers at Floatingsheep are at it again, this time comparing tweets that…
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Beer versus church mapped →
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DC power outage →
NASA satellite images of before and after the lights went out
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Age range of US Olympic athletes, by sport
The Washington Post has a fun piece that compares your age to that…
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The Higgs Boson explained by PhD Comics
Don’t know what the Higgs Boson is (or even how to pronounce it)?…
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Infographics are like Mother’s Day cards
Stamen Design is the cover story of this month’s Icon Magazine. Well deserved.…
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Sparse Matrices in R →
Making use of the Matrix and glmnet packages
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Toner V2 →
Stamen updated their custom black and white map tiles, looking even classier
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Intro to Statistics →
Free course on extracting meaning from data
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Huffington Post Pollster API →
Data for 215k responses from 13k polls
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How to Make Stacked Area Charts in R
From the basic area chart, to the stacked version, to the streamgraph, the geometry is similar. Once you know how to do one, you can do them all.
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How long it takes to get pregnant
The odds of getting pregnant after a certain time trying are surprisingly hard…
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Walking the tightrope of visualization criticism →
Avoiding the knee jerk scoff
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A graphical summary of Euro 2012 on Twitter
Nicolas Belmonte, a data visualization scientist at Twitter, visualized the change in tweet…
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Visualizing contest for Olympics →
Prize for interactive, static, and people’s choice; deadline July 27 opening ceremonies
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Electricity bill redesigned
The electricity bill (or all utility bills, really) haven’t changed much over the…
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Build a pop song, pick the right pieces
Voice producer Kuk Harrell works with performers like Justin Bieber and Rihanna to…
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Flickr maps →
Partnered with Nokia for more detailed georeferencing
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The Louis C.K. pain chart
Vulture illustrated the subtle changes in Louis C.K.’s face to express varying levels…
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Growth of the basketball uniform
In the 1960s, the basketball uniform was about small, tight shorts and form-fitting…
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Will A Graphic Resume Get You The Job? →
In short: No.