When you ride your bicycle around, I bet you always wish for two…
Nathan Yau
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Instant electric bike and data collector
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World atlas of Flickr geotaggers is maptastic
In a different look to the let’s-map-geotagged-photos idea, photographer Eric Fischer maps picture…
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Map of where toursists flock
Bluemoon Interactive, a small codeshop, maps touristiness, based on uploads to Panoramio, a…
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Most influential people on Twitter – Cosmic 140
Information Architects just released their annual Web Trends Map, but it’s not about…
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Data Underload #21: Exit Strategy
If my wife, the physician, has taught me anything, it’s that everything that…
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Why context is as important as the data itself
John Allen Paulos, a math professor at Temple University, explains, in the New…
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Fake filming locations of Paramount Studios
This might shock you, but many movies are not filmed on location. Yeah.…
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Tour of advanced visualization techniques
Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky provide a good overview of some…
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Twitwee the Twitter cuckoo clock
I love it when data, or in this case, tweets, finds itself in…
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FlowingData is brought to you by…
My many thanks to the FlowingData sponsors who help keep the gears turning…
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Senate and House races are on
I’m not proud of this, but I know very little about what’s going…
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HTML5 visualization readiness
Everyone’s been bashing Flash lately and holding HTML5 up on a pedestal. This…
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Design of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece
In 1934, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater, a house built partly…
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Facebook users who don’t know they are sharing
I’m pretty sure all this Facebook stuff will blow over soon enough. Most…
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Facebook privacy options untangled
People are up in arms about Facebook’s new privacy policies, partly because some…
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Wait. Something isn’t right here…
No clue where this is from, but something seems sort of off, no? I guess we should take the title literally. By the numbers… only. I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt though, and assume this was just an honest mistake. Here’s my guess about what happened.
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Marge Simpson is Europe in disguise
I bet you didn’t know this. Marge Simpson was actually modeled after the coastlines of Europe. True story.
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What America spends on food and drink
How much more (or less) money do you spend on groceries than you do on dining out? Bundle, a new online destination that aims to describe how we spend money, takes a look at the grocery-dining out breakdown in major cities.
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Interview: Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Andrew interviews Fernanda and Martin about their new venture Flowing Media, visualization, and their amazing taste in adjectives.
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Field guide to fanboys
PCWorld provides a handy field guide to help you spot fanboys in the wild.