Nicolas Rapp and Anne Vandermey with a straightforward look at new jobs added…
Nathan Yau
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Job growth at the best companies to work for
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Geographic connectedness via Twitter locations
Eric Fischer has mastered the art of making use of geotagged things from…
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The “Mad Men” Years Are Giving Way to the “Math Men” Era →
“Advertising is based on one thing: Happiness.” [via]
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Google open-sources Sky Map →
collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University for further development via student projects
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When you should use a logarithmic scale →
to handle large counts and look at percent changes
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The State of Information Visualization →
a look back at the new developments last year and what to look forward to
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Music listening trends and the news in 2011
Anyone who uses a social music service like Rdio or last.fm has probably…
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How citizen mapmakers are changing the story of our lives →
“The map user has now become the map creator.”
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Golan Levin at Eyeo →
gestural interfaces and information visualization together
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Data Swims Upstream →
one of my favorite data visualization firms, Periscopic, interviewed for Print Magazine on their work and process
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Recursive Google Image search →
starts with a transparent PNG, to the universe, and beyond, and then back again
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D3 Path Transitions →
moving time series, plus smooth scrolling
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What is Data Science? →
detailed article on the budding field
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SOPA opposition surges
ProPublica has been tracking members of Congress who oppose and support SOPA. You…
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Where are the biggest box office movies (not) streaming?
After seeing Tristan Louis’ list that tallied the streaming availability of 2011’s top 100 box office hits, I was curious what it looked like graphically.
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Introduction to Probability →
Lecture videos and materials for Statistics 110, offered at Harvard, on iTunes U for free
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Using Color Scales and Palettes in R
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.
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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,…