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Poll: What do you use to analyze and/or visualize data?
I asked this same question a couple of years back. I wonder: has…
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Tracking firefly trails in the forest
Physicist Kristian Cvecek hangs out in the forest sometimes to take these beautiful…
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Simple data converter from Excel
If you’ve ever created an interactive graphic or anything else that requires that…
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Statistical literacy guides for the basics
You can get pretty far with data graphics with just limited statistical knowledge,…
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Problem solving flowchart (slightly crass)
Flowchart Friday, anyone? This one describes the process to solve all of your…
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Mapping the moves of New York residents
A couple of months back, WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show asked listeners who…
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Discuss: Graphs on Old Spice YouTube campaign
I trust we’ve all seen the OldSpice YouTube campaign by now? This graphic…
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Real-time match display for the US Open
The tennis US Open is in full swing, and since you’re at work,…
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A big thank you to FlowingData sponsors for their support. They help me…
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What different sorting algorithms sound like
Last month we saw sorting algorithms visualized in rainbow technicolor. Now, by Rudy…
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Best of FlowingData – August 2010
It’s been a hectic month. With one month left until my thesis defense,…
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How to visualize data with cartoonish faces ala Chernoff
The goal of Chernoff faces is to show a bunch of variables at once via facial features like lips, eyes, and nose size. Most of the time there are better solutions, but the faces can be interesting to work with.
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A house that knows when you’re happy and sad
Auger Loizeau, in collaboration with Reyer Zwiggelaar and Bashar Al-Rjoub, describe their smart-home…
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The beauty of data visualization
Connoisseur of scaled rounded rectangles, bubbles, and triangles, David McCandless of Information is…
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Asteroid discoveries over past 30 years visualized
This animation by Scott Manley of the Armagh Observatory shows a beautiful view…
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Map of who owns the Arctic
Do you know who owns the Arctic? As it turns out, it’s a…
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Icons of the Web scaled by popularity
Nmap visualizes site popularity as scaled icons. Favicons, that is. They’re that little…
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Graph Design Rule #2: Explain your encodings
This is part two in a seven-part series on basic rules for graph…
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How tax breaks could affect your bottom line
Wilson Andrews and Alicia Parlapiano report for The Washington Post on how the…
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