Nicholas Felton, who you probably know from his annual reports, is giving a two-day workshop on May 27 to 28 in Berlin on designing data-based visual narratives. It’s limited to 20 participants, so it’ll probably be an up close and personal experience.
Nathan Yau
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The Art of Data-based Visual Narratives
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Over-the-top quantified self
Chris Dancy likes to track facets of his life. A lot. Above is…
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What Data Can’t Do →
A follow-up to this from David Brooks
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Curved Paths →
Possible path drawing in video games [via]
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Map of Craigslist Missed Connections
On Craigslist there’s a section in the personals for “missed connections” which lets…
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Tech data journalism bootcamp →
A thorough recap of the event
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Starting a New Stack
There’s a corner of my desk reserved for books, notes, papers, and other…
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A dissection of movie trailers →
Shan Carter, Amanda Cox, and Mike Bostock for The New York Times, analyzed…
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MS in Data Science →
New 2-year program at NYU starting Fall 2013
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U.S. overlaid on the Moon for a sense of scale
How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with…
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Geocoding in Google Spreadsheets →
Nifty trick that uses Mapquest API as source
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Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly →
Mostly ugly, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing
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Using Transparency in R to Improve Clarity
When you plot a lot of data at once, points and lines can obscure others and hide patterns. Transparency can help reveal what is really there.
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Loving beautiful things
Lance Hosey, for The New York Times, on design, beauty, and functionality.
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Interview with Google statistician →
Experiences analyzing lots of data and collaborating with computer scientists, data scientists, and quantitative analysts
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Porn star demographics
Jon Millward explored porn star demographics using a data scrape from the Internet…
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A shroud of cold air descends on the U.S.
From NOAA, an animation showing a wave of cold during the Martin Luther…
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Chart Check: Did Obama’s Graphics ‘Enhance’ His Big Speech? →
Helped out some for this NPR article
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Redrawn United States of electoral votes
Neil Freeman reimagined state boundary lines based on population. He started with an…
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Visualization spectrum
A handful of experts weighed in on visualization as a spectrum rather than…







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