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Scale of atoms
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Tucker Carlson word usage and patterns
Tucker Carlson hosts a nightly show viewed by millions. The New York Times…
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A test for a potentially flawed study on randomness and age
In 2017, a study posited that human behavior complexity peaks at age 25…
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Nuclear energy rebrand
Nuclear energy has bad memories linked to it, which tends to draw fear…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, April 2022 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for April.
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AI says if you’re the a**hole
There’s a subreddit where people share a story and ask if they’re the…
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Facebook doesn’t seem to fully know how their data is used internally
Lorenzo Franceschi reporting for Motherboard on a leaked Facebook document:
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Fracture and flow of Oreo cookies
Crystal Owens, Max Fan, John Hart, and Gareth McKinley from Massachusetts Institute of…
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How to Make Bubble Clusters in R
Represent individual counts with grouped units to make data feel less abstract.
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Tracking the CIA to demo phone tracking
Sam Biddle and Jack Poulson for The Intercept reporting on Anomaly Six, a…
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Applying sentiment analysis usefully
Sentiment analysis can be fun to apply to varying types of text, but…
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How much rent increased where you live
Rent increased pretty much everywhere in the United States over the past year.…
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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…