Get it? It’s a Venn diagram made of actual pies. That’s why it’s…
Nathan Yau
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The Venn Piagram
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Facebook connections displayed in physical space
For Facebook’s F8 developer conference, creative agency Obscura Digital delivered the Connections installation.…
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The Don’ts of Infographic Design
Smashing Magazine offers advice on the dos and don’ts of infographic design, but they forgot to include the former. It’s as if I wrote a fake post and someone mistook it for a serious guide.
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Statisticians don’t program?
We’re statisticians. We don’t program.
— Anonymous statisticianI was talking to a…
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Word clouds cause death… or something
Jacob Harris, a New York Times senior software architect, rants about how people…
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Geographic data doesn’t always have to be mapped
Matthew Ericson, deputy graphics director at The New York Times, talks maps and…
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Bible sentiment analysis
OpenBible quantifies the ups and downs of the Bible. Red is negative and…
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Visualizing Yahoo email in real-time
Hundreds of thousands of emails are sent every second, and yet, you wouldn’t…
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The Fall of the Tiled Map Image →
And birth to dynamic data, vectors, and user experience
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Life expectancy changes
The data goes back to 1960 and up to the most current estimates for 2009. Each line represents a country.
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Where people don’t use Facebook
Remember the Facebook connections map from a while back? It showed digital friendships…
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When data guys triumph
Cade Massey and Bob Tedeschi for The New York Times on the book,…
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FlowingData is brought to you by…
A big thank you to the FlowingData sponsors. Without them, I would not…
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Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction →
As part of Kill Math, Bret Victor describes the levels of interaction
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Space launches over time
With the end of NASA’s human spaceflight program, Tommy McCall and Mike Orcutt…
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Nobel laureates by country and prize
Nobel Prizes have been awarded every year since 1901. Where are all the…
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Fatality Analysis Reporting System →
Didn’t know such extensive data on road fatalities was publicly available. Get records on individual incidents from the FTP
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#thankyousteve
Twitter engineer Miguel Rios pays tribute to the man, the legend. Zoomed out…
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A global mood ring called Twitter
In a follow-up to their mood maps, Scott Golder and Michael Macy of…
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Scripting Inkscape with d3.js →
An integration of both tools for a smooth workflow