Thanks for making this a memorable year, everyone. Happy holidays!…
Nathan Yau
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Merry Christmas to you, from FlowingData
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Van Gogh for the colorblind
After a chat with his color deficient friends about how Vincent van Gogh’s…
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The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011
I almost didn’t make a best-of list this year, but as I clicked…
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Record your movements with AntiMap
AntiMap is an open source toolset that lets you record movements with your…
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When numbers are too factual
Carl Bialik, for The Wall Street Journal, reports on PSAs and the use…
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Charts with explosions now easier than ever
Score.…
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Causation is real, people
Stop global warming. Decrease the National Science Foundation’s R&D budget. It’s so easy.…
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Stop mining data! →
“…data is essentially a set of statements about the world and we are attempting to figure out – from the aggregate of statements – what the world looks like.”
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What Facebook knows about you
Facebook logs and saves a lot of data about you and what you…
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How To Avoid Equidistant HSV Colors →
Guide on picking colors and a small JavaScript library to boot
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Fox News still makes awesome charts
Charts and graphs are great, because they can let you see a pattern…
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Mapped: Transportation check-ins on foursquare
Transportation check-ins on foursquare. This is from this past Thanksgiving, but relevant again…
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Excel Charts meet William Playfair →
Just because you’re using Excel doesn’t mean your charts have to look like it
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Corruption versus human development
Transparency International released annual data for the Corruption Perceptions Index. The Economist plotted…
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Substratum: A series of interviews with smart people
It’s always nice to hear from the people who are the best at…
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Bach Cello Suites visualized
As a resident at Eyebeam, Alexander Chen visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s…
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On low-quality infographics
This has been sitting in my drafts folder for a few months. Figured…
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Substratum: A series of inspirational interviews →
A peak into some smart people’s minds, most recently Amanda Cox and Nicholas Felton
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Visualize This: Signed copies available
Quick announcement: I have a handful of signed Visualize This copies available in…
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Rise and fall of riot rumors on Twitter
During the riots in London this past summer, a lot of information spread…