Love ’em or hate ’em, tag clouds, or the more recent incarnation, Wordles,…
Nathan Yau
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Make shaped word clouds with Tagxedo
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Rise and fall of housing prices
Kevin Quealy and Jeremy White report for The New York Times on the…
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11.3m player deaths visualized in point cloud
Sometimes visualizing everything can turn out beautiful results. It seems to work especially…
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Time-lapse of the night sky with the Very Large Telescope
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in an array of four telescopes operated by…
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Why you shouldn’t eat farmed fish – a graphical explanation
Do you know where your fish comes from? Well, yeah, it comes from…
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Aaron Koblin on visualizing humanity
Aaron Koblin, Creative Director of Google’s Data Arts team, shares some of the…
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DataWrangler for your data formatting needs
Formatting data is a necessary pain, so anything that makes formatting easier is…
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Pew Research raw survey data now available
The Pew Research churns out a lot of interesting results from a number…
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Google Correlate lets you see how your data relates to search queries
A while back, Google showed how Influenza outbreaks correlated to searches for flu-related…
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Visualization contests around the corner
The best way to learn how to visualize data is to grab a…
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Exploring NYT news and its authors
The IBM Visual Communication Lab published their first of what I hope many…
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Better Life Index measures well-being across countries
OECD, with the help of Moritz Stefaner and Raureif, promote a well-being index…
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A deadly year of tornadoes
As reported by The New York Times, the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, known…
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Seven year itch: When do people get married and divorced?
The United States Census Bureau just released results from the Survey of Income…
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Data tales, revolution, and journalism
On the Media’s episode last week was on data, namely personal data collection,…
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Growing need for data heads
The New York Times, citing a number of bits from a recent McKinsey…
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Geography of hate
Richard Florida for The Atlantic takes a closer look at hate groups in…
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Super detailed map of the skies
The title just about says it all:
The Photopic Sky Survey is a… -
MacGyver recipe book – All 7 seasons of diversions and mischief
Oh. My. God. Fathom Information Design compiles every recipe from the show MacGyver:…
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Open thread: Can you spot the wrongness in this tax graph?
The argument behind this graph in The Wall Street Journal is that the…