At New Media Days 2010, New York Times graphics editor Amanda Cox talks…
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Amanda Cox on data graphics and stuff
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Finding Global Agenda Councils who should work together
This past month, the World Economic Forum convened in Dubai to discuss issues…
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Awards from Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Between February 17, 2009 to September 30, 2010, 88,791 awards have been funded…
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The Joy of Stats with Hans Rosling
The Joy of Stats, a one-hour documentary, hosted by none other than the…
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How do people use Firefox?
Mozilla Labs just released a bunch of anonymized browsing data for their open…
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Build your LinkedIn career tree
How did you get to where you are now in your work life?…
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Statistics vs. Stories
Professor of Mathematics at Temple University, John Allen Paulos describes the differences between…
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Happy Turkey Day
Happy Thanksgiving! Eat lots and lots and lots. Rest. Then eat more.…
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Spreadsheet Invasion
Something for you leading into the Thanksgiving weekend. Enjoy this short video (below)…
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How to Make Bubble Charts
Ever since Hans Rosling presented a motion chart to tell his story of the wealth and health of nations, there has been an affinity for proportional bubbles on an x-y axis. This tutorial is for the static version of the motion chart: the bubble chart.
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Girl Talk mashup breakdown visualized
In case you missed it, Girl Talk recently released his fifth album All…
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How Twitter users balanced the budget
In a follow-up to their puzzle to balance the budget, The New York…
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Evolution of the two-party vote during past century
Political science PhD candidate David Sparks has look at the evolution of the…
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Mapping human development in America
In work with the American Human Development Project, Rosten Woo and Zachary Watson…
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Target for charting excellence
The scales for what qualifies as pretty and useful change depending on the…
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A world of tweets
We’ve seen this sort of thing before, with tweets mapped and such, but…
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Defining neighborhoods with map scribbles
TenderMaps brings an informal approach to highlighting the parts of neighborhoods:
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What generation do you belong to?
In this interactive, USA Today guesses your age, based on what influenced you…
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R is the need-to-know stat software
This Forbes post on the greatness that is R is being passed around…
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Why network visualization is useful
AT&T Labs’ Infoviz research group describes network graphs and their many uses:
There…