Welcome to Anthropocene:
Scientific concepts like the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and planetary stewardship…
Nathan Yau
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An era of human-affected Earth
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Minecraft server connections
I’ve never played Minecraft, but maybe this map showing live server connections means…
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R is not enough for Big Data →
Tools are just that, experience is most valuable [via]
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Federal Spending Transparency on the Decline →
Questionable data quality and less funding
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Pretty pictures: Can images stop data overload? →
“The results showed that when tasks were presented visually rather than using traditional text-based software applications, individuals used around 20% less cognitive resources.”
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Mapmaking checklist for map design →
To evaluate how good maps are
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Titanic infographics from 1912
With the Titanic anniversary this year, Chiqui Esteban dug up graphics back from…
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Avengers characters first appearances
With The Avengers coming out today in the US, artist Jer Thorp had…
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From Tiny Links, Big Insights →
Profile of chief bitly scientist Hilary Mason, data hacker at large
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US health care spending →
Simple graphs in R but effective
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Common statistical fallacies
I’ve been reading papers on how people learn statistics (and thoughts on teaching…
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Parallel Sets for categorical data, D3 port
A while back, Robert Kosara and Caroline Ziemkiewicz shared their work on Parallel…
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How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet →
There’s a lot of tracking as your browse the net, and here’s how to limit the bits of you data you put out there
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Histogrem →
Font to put histograms in your text files
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Axes in D3 →
Tutorial on built-in formatting
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Extreme ice time-lapse
Glaciers are big, slow-moving objects, and it might seem that not much is…
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Bit rot →
The slow decay of digital content, and as a result, history
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Growth of the Data Scientist →
Short interview with Hilary Mason
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Bed cartography
Doghouse Diaries maps bed regions. I relate to this. [Thanks, Robert]…
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Agreement groups in the US Senate
PhD student Adrien Friggeri demonstrates a new clustering algorithm with a visualization of…