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Play miniature golf, learn about congressional redistricting
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The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames from 1977 shows the…
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Spiral graph to show Covid-19 cases
This spiralized chart by Gus Wezerek and Sara Chodosh for NYT Opinion has…
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Four decades of oceanic wave moments, as a surfing game
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It’s time to bask in the joys of knowing nothing again.
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Scale of black holes
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Drop rain anywhere in the world and see where it ends up
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Analysis of Facebook groups before January 6
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What the omicron numbers tell us and do not tell us
May Louise Kelly for NPR spoke briefly with biostatistics professor Natalie Dean on…
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False positives with prenatal tests for rare conditions
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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2021
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Visualization Tools and Resources, December 2021 Roundup
In the last roundup of 2021, here’s the good stuff for December.
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Church of the 95% Confidence Interval
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David Rumsey Map Center, cataloging historical works
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Anonymized data is rarely anonymous
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Covid-19 mortality before and after vaccine eligibility
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xkcd: Unknowable truth
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