Kevin Slavin, chairman and co-founder of Area/Code, describes how algorithms (processing tons and…
Nathan Yau
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How algorithms shape our world
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Statistics has a new name
Simon Rogers, for The Guardian, outlines the new, hot trend on the block…
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How tech companies are interconnected
Sarah Kessler and Nick Sigler examine the interconnectedness between major tech companies. I…
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Open thread: Data as cake and frosting?
Mark Johnstone uses a cake metaphor to represent data, presentation, and what you…
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If the world lived in a single city
World population is estimated to be 6.9 billion people, and while that is…
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How the deficit got so big
The US continues to rack up more and more debt, with a deficit…
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The Vizosphere
There are lots of people on Twitter who talk visualization. Moritz Stefaner had…
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Brand sentiment showdown
There are many brands on Twitter that exist to uphold an image of…
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All the countries that the US owes money to
In May 2011, the United States owned $14.3 trillion in debt. A lot…
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You Are What You Eat
The phrase “you are what you eat” usually refers to health and weight,…
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Doo doo
Poop. Doo doo. Crap. Shit. Oddly enough these are the first words of…
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Data reenactment via stolen iPhone
Remember when Joshua Koffman was posting pictures of the guy who had this…
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Interview with BBC Radio 5Live
BBC Radio 5Live has a new podcast up: Looking at ourselves. The first…
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Visualize This: eBook formats and sample chapter
Last week I announced the release of Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to…
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Visualizing Player makes it easier to share visualization
It’s easy to share static graphics. Save an image and then upload it…
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Undergraduate grade inflation
It’s a given that some colleges and programs give more A’s than others,…
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Cell phones and cancer
xkcd pokes fun at correlation and causation again. Funny every time.…
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iPhone fireflies across the Europen sky
A few months ago there was a lot of hoopla around the iPhone…
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Link
beeswarm →
Organizes overlapping points in a scatterplot so they don’t
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News of the World scandal unfolding on Twitter
All kinds of crazy with News of the World went down this past…