You’d think that this would’ve been done by now, but this simple mashup…
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Map your Twitter friends
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Bubble talk slides →
Slides from Shan Carter’s lightning talk on the process behind the Obama spending bubbles [via]
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Presentation skills →
“Make statistics as relevant to your audience as possible and put the numbers into a context that people can instantly grasp.” [via]
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Patterns of daily life in Netherlands from Above
In a similar fashion to their work in Britain from Above, CGI and…
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Getstats →
Campaign by the Royal Statistical Society to help the general public understand and not shy away from statistics [via]
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Creating Animated Bubble Charts in D3 →
Use of Force layout, collision detection, and transitions to make this graphic from The New York Times
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Timetoast →
Lets you easily create online and interactive, event-based timelines and share them
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Password reuse visualizer from Mozilla
When you use the same password for every online account, there could be…
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Must-Have R Packages for Social Scientists →
Oldie but a goodie
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When open data is not open →
World Bank snuggles up with Google
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Live coding and inventing on principle
This talk by Bret Victor caught fire a few days ago, but I…
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Point guard fundamentals of Jeremy Lin
You knew this was coming, right? The New York Times describes the point…
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iBook Widgets with D3.js →
Getting closer to interactive text books
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Urine color chart
A Boy Scout is always prepared.
See also: Bristol stool chart.…
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OkCupid Trends process →
“The trick, in so far as I’ve observed one, is to pick questions first before you let the data be your guide.”
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Companies learn your secrets with data about you
In the 1980s, students and researchers at UCLA, led by marketing professor Alan…
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Tufte carves out new life as sculptor →
He does art nowadays, and talks with the BBC how science influences his work
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Narrative Eros of the Infographic →
Survey of visual storytelling
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WolframAlpha Pro launches in an effort to democratize data science
Taking the next step in the Wolfram|Alpha experiment, Wolfram launches a Pro version…
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Data Stories →
Visualization podcast with a blend of research and in-practice. The first episode has some choppy spots, but it’ll get better.