In his five-minute TED talk (below), Gary Wolf describes the quantified self and…
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Gary Wolf on the quantified self
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Fictional map of online communities
xkcd + numbers on online communities. Need I say more? Along the same…
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Typographic maps
Cartography group Axis Maps continues their run of mapping goodness with the announcement…
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Best of FlowingData – September 2010
Another month come and gone, and it was a good one. The FlowingData…
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Make your vote count with VoteEasy
Do you know who you’ll be voting for this year? It can be…
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FlowingData is brought to you by…
My many thanks to the FlowingData sponsors. I wouldn’t be able to do…
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Q. How did your love of infographics begin?
Matthew asks:
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Zombie survival guide
Since it’s October, all the zombie forces are preparing for attack. Luckily we…
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Challenge: Advertised vs. actual waistline
Ever notice how pants seem to fit differently from store-to-store even though they’re…
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Charted history of airline mergers
Airlines have been merging, going out of business, and growing since forever. Karl…
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Exploratory tool for school admissions
With thousands of applications, it can be tough deciding who to admit in…
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Music listening preferences by gender
Last.fm intern Joachim Van Herwegen has a quick look at listening habits by…
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Poll results: What do you use to analyze and/or visualize data?
A couple of weeks ago I asked what you all use to analyze…
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Journalism in the Age of Data
In the words of Terrell Owens, get your popcorn ready, because this video…
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Why I blog
I answered a few questions for Amstat News not too long ago, and…
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Who gets what if tax cuts are extended
There are some major tax decisions to be made soon, and they’ll affect…
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Augmented reality atlas
The mockup examples are more cool factor than useful in this augmented reality…
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your.flowingdata Users: Help Wanted. Five minutes of your time
As many of you know, your.flowingdata, an application to help you collect data…
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Expense visualizer
In an effort to make Canadian government expense data more accessible, FFunction designed…
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Europe geographically stereotyped
We tend to see the world in different ways, depending on what part…