David McCandless, author of The Visual MIscellaneum, delves into the usefulness of the…
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Should You Get the H1N1 Vaccine?
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Stat Charts Get a New York Times Redesign
Statistical graphics are often… kind of bland. But that’s fine, because they’re usually…
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Past 25 Years of Consumer Spending
How has consumer spending changed over the past 25 years? Do we spend…
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Best of FlowingData: November 2009
November was another good month. We passed the 25k-subscriber mark for the first…
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A New Way to Search Images With Google Image Swirl
There’s this branch in computer science and statistics for vision research. Normally, if…
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Can You Guess What These Maps Show?
I’m no doubt still under massive food coma at this time, but in…
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Black Friday Starts Now. 3 Prints for 1!
Straight to the point. It’s Black Friday. Here’s the deal. Get 1 print…
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What’s Cooking on Thanksgiving, Mapped and Ranked
Food-wise, Thanksgiving is different across the country. In some places you’re going to…
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Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart. Ever.
What? I don’t see anything wrong with it.…
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9 Ways to Visualize Proportions – A Guide
With all the visualization options out there, it can be hard to figure…
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Battle of the Coverage Maps: Verizon vs. AT&T
Verizon has been running these ads lately that compare their 3G coverage to…
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The Cost of Getting Sick
GE and Ben Fry (now the director of SEED visualization), show the cost…
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Buzzwords in Academic Papers (Comic)
This comic was really amusing, although it might be because I’m a big…
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Thank You, FlowingData Sponsors
Thank you to the FlowingData sponsors for keeping the servers alive. Without them,…
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Choose Your Own Adventure – Watch the Stories Unfold
Interaction designer Christian Swinehart takes a careful look at the popular Choose Your…
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The Future: Embedding Data in the Everyday
Imagine a world where data becomes the everyday, simply embedded in what you…
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Visualize This: Class Size and Quality of Education. Your Turn
Photo by Night Owl City
Last week I posted some parallel coordinate plots… -
Review: The Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless
David McCandless’ The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World’s Most Consequential…
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The Dumbest City in America
Ever since my hometown Fresno, California was ranked the dumbest city in America…
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Land Mass and Population by Country
From Herald Daily is this giganto view of land mass and population size…