There are various connections between Stephen King novels. Gillian James puts them in…
Nathan Yau
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Flowchart: Connections in Stephen King novels
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Mapping Airlines →
Using world flights with ggplot2. See also.
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Fat and calories depicted in food pictures
You would think that fat content and calorie counts would be straightforward by…
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Always label your axes
From Fluffware, here’s a fine reminder to always label your axes. See, it’s…
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Padding a Time Series in R →
Script to fill in the gaps between unevenly spaced points
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Tangle →
JavaScript library for reactive documents, as seen in Bret Victor’s talk
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Clarity or Aesthetics →
Find a balance between the two
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Income inequality seen in satellite images from Google Earth
Researchers Pengyu Zhua and Yaoqi Zhang noted in their 2008 paper that “the…
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Overfishing visually explained
As part of their mission to reform destructive fishing practices, Ocean2012 explains the…
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Geography of incarceration
New York University graduate student Josh Begley grabbed 4,916 satellite images of prisons…
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The Overview Effect →
Lovely set of slides by Sha Hwang on the awe from from data
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Making your R graphics look their best →
Old but all still applicable
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How to Draw in R and Make Custom Plots
When base graphics and existing packages don’t do it for you, turn to low-level graphics functions to make what you want.
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Political allegiance via wireless network SSIDs, mapped
Wireless network SSIDs in residential areas are typically left on default router names…
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Data Challenge →
New Knight News Challenge is focused on data. $5m in funding this round.
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ggplot2 blog →
Hadley Wickham started posting uses of the popular R graphics package
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Manipulating data like a boss with d3 →
Gotta get it in the right format before you visualize anything
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Bitly Data Artist →
Probably after seeing what Jer Thorp did as one at NYT, the shortlink service is out the lookout
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Resources for Getting Started with R
R, the open source statistical software environment, is powerful but can be a…
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HTMLAPL →
jQuery plugin that associates HTML vocabulary “making it frighteningly easy to make web-native geographic maps”







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