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When Americans Had Intercourse with Opposite Sex for the First Time
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Visually Inefficient
Trading optimized visual efficiency in charts for joy and interest.
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Diagram of watercolors from the 17th century
In 1692, artist A. Boogert published a guide to watercolors, showing the thousands…
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Mapping the boundaries of history
While geographic boundaries can often seem like a semi-static thing, they’ve changed a…
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Pie charts of dogs
John Rich made pie charts of dog body proportions. This is very important.…
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How to Make an Animated Donut Chart in R
There are “better” ways to show proportions over time, but sometimes you just want an animated donut.
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Shifting flight paths for wealthy Russians
For The New York Times, Pablo Robles, Anton Troianovski, and Agnes Chang mapped…
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Possible lead exposure around small airports
Thousands of smaller airplanes are still allowed to use leaded fuel, which can…
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Gridlines
They serve as a point of reference in some charts and guide the eyes in others, coming in different styles and layouts.
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Cumulative 3-pointers for the Splash Brothers
Tonight is game six of the NBA Finals. If the Golden State Warriors…
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Communicating risk in the context of daily living
Wayne Oldford, a statistics professor at the University of Waterloo, explains risk in…
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Hands-On Data Visualization, an open-access book on interactive visualization for beginners
Hands-On Data Visualization, by Jack Dougherty and Ilya Ilyankou, is an open-access book…
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Unreliable FBI crime data
The Marshall Project and Axios report that the FBI changed their reporting system…
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Different languages, but similar information rates
Christophe Coupé and company analyzed speech rate (on the left) across different languages,…
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Map of closest airports everywhere
This fun interactive map by William B. Davis shows you the ten closest…
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Browser share over time
James Eagle used an animated donut chart to show browser share from 1996…
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Using Absolute vs. Relative Scales
The key is assigning an appropriate amount of weight, statistically and visually, for comparisons that make sense.
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History of heat records in major U.S. cities
Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding are tracking heat records in…
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Garbage in space
There are thousands of satellites that orbit Earth, with about half of them…
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Maps of noise
Karim Douïeb, in collaboration with Possible, mapped noise in Paris, New York, and…
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