Color can drastically change how a chart reads and what you see in your data, so don’t leave it up to chance with defaults.
Nathan Yau
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Using Color Scales and Palettes in R
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Social network analysis used to convict slumlords
In working with tenants to help their city attorney convict a group of…
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Stamen Projects 2011 →
One of the best in the business look back at all of last year’s map work
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High resolution biomass map, at management scale
In 2010, NASA released a map that shows world forest heights. Robert Simmon,…
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Watching ‘wtf Wikipedia’ as SOPA/PIPA blackout begins
While SOPA and PIPA are no laughing matter (join the strike), the reaction…
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Teaching stat as though it were math →
Ranty post on why stat isn’t math
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R jumps from 25 to 19 →
and statisticians rejoiced, although never satisfied until R is at the top
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Where the 0.05% Live →
Inverse population density
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Empowering Citizen Cartographers →
“Today, in the Age of Participation, it’s crowds, not scholars, who are charting their own New World.”
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Optimized dart throwing and other games
If you play darts just trying to hit the bullseye, you aren’t playing…
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Spot visualizes tweet commonalities
Twitter is an organic online location, full of retweets, conversations, and link sharing.…
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Find out what percent you are in
Accompanying an article on the variations of the wealthiest one percent, The New…
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First steps in data visualisation using d3.js →
Tutorial talk by Mike Dewar, data scientist at bit.ly [via]
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Embracing Uncertainty in Two-Line Charts →
And when a stacked area chart might be better
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How The New York Times Graphics Department Uses R →
Amanda Cox, the token statistician, talks R and its role in professional graphics [via]
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Good bye, Google Maps →
Sebastian Delmont explains why and how StreetEasy stopped using Google Maps, switching to custom maps with open source tools
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The 2012 Political Visualization Race →
Breakdown of what worked and didn’t with news trackers for the New Hampshire primaries
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World subway paths at scale
Urban planner Neil Freeman maps the world’s subway systems to scale in a…
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Cinemetrics creates a visual fingerprint for movies
As we saw with movie barcodes, each film has a uniqueness that can…
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Lego mathematics and growing complexity in networks
Legos are the best toys ever invented. That’s indisputable fact. So it’s no…