Rent increased pretty much everywhere in the United States over the past year.…
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How much rent increased where you live
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Who We Spend Time with as We Get Older
In high school, we spend most of our days with friends and immediate family. But then we get jobs, start a family, retire, and there’s a shift in who we spend our days with.
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Stuck in a Form
When you choose visual encodings before considering the data, you usually end up with results that aren’t so great.
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Earth Reviews
Given our love for making our opinions heard for products on the internets,…
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Calculating win probabilities
Zack Capozzi, for USA Lacrosse Magazine, explains how he calculates win probabilities pre-game…
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Agent-based modeling in JavaScript
Atomic Agents is a JavaScript library by Graham McNeill that can help simulate…
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Wildfires and floods, a geographic before and after
In 2021, a large portion of North America was stuck in a heat…
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Scraping public data ruled legal
For TechCrunch, Zack Whittaker reporting:
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Redrafting the NBA, based on past player performance
With the NBA playoffs underway, it can be fun to watch the best…
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Tax services want your data
Taxes are due today in the U.S. (yay). Geoffrey A. Fowler for The…
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Ross Ihaka, co-creator of R, reflects on the language
NZ Herald talked to Ross Ihaka, one of the creators of R:
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Tonga shockwave around the world
Earlier this year, an underwater volcano erupted in the island nation of Tonga.…
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Manually
Manually editing charts is worthwhile, despite the possibility of manually making mistakes.
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Comparing rich people incomes and the taxes they pay
Based on leaked IRS data for the 400 wealthiest Americans, ProPublica provides a…
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Social Media Usage by Age
Here’s the breakdown by age for American adults in 2021, based on data from the Pew Research Center.
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When people eat dinner in Europe
This map by @loverofgeography shows the usual dinner times for countries in Europe.…
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Jeff Bezos wealth to scale
Jeff Bezos’ wealth is difficult to understand conceptually, because the scale is just…
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More gender-neutral names
Georgios Karamanis plotted the ratio of girls-to-boys over time for all the names…
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Overlapping Lines
More lines can mean more patterns, more cycles, and more context.
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Working the triple peak
Microsoft researchers analyzed keystrokes by time of day, for a sample of Microsoft…