“A font you can use in your web apps when you want tiny state shapes as a design element”
Nathan Yau
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StateFace →
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Towards a Low-carbon World
Carbon output. We want to reduce it, but some countries have a longer…
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Clustering →
Code examples and summaries to find groups in your data, such as the one that likes wings and beer and the other that likes tofu and soba noodles [via]
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Evolution of the Hawaiian Star, 1893 to 1912
UC San Diego student Cyrus Kiani animates 5,930 front pages from The Hawaiian…
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Live Coding Implemented
Remember Bret Victor’s live coding talk from last month? He presented an example…
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Tesseract →
JavaScript library for fast filtering of large multivariate datasets and multiple views
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Reddit Voting Data Dump →
Donated by users for research in recommendation systems
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C2 →
Inspired by D3, a visualization library in Clojure
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Nike Fuelband API →
There’s going to be an API for the monitoring band. I want to get one now.
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Visualizing the History of Everything
Big History is a field of study that crosses multiple disciplines such as…
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Thank You, FlowingData Sponsors
My many thanks to the sponsors. FlowingData wouldn’t be around without them. Check…
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March Madness power rankings
With NCAA March Madness in full swing, the basketball graphics are out in…
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data →
Director of Research at Google talks data, back from 2010 and how they use it the big G [via]
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Obama campaign is watching you →
And you can join them; they posted a job in the forums [via]
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History told with Oreo cookies
Celebrating their 100th birthday, Oreo depicts moments in history with the ever popular…
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New iPad battery size is huge
From Gizmodo, this shows battery size in the new iPad versus that of…
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Poor Visualization Can Do More Harm Than Good →
Examples of poorly conceived graphics; easy to find these days
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Calendar Heatmaps to Visualize Time Series Data
The familiar but underused layout is a good way to look at patterns over time.
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Comparing heritage in the Melting Pot
At first I thought this map, by David Yanofsky for Bloomberg, was your…
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Hipster Branding →
Redesign of popular brands. I like the one for Kentucky Fried Chicken.