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Joke machine learning projects to advance your career
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Thinking about the differences between boring charts and not so boring charts.
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Declining U.S. Births
The number of births per month has been decreasing over the past decade. The pandemic seems to have sped up the process in the beginning.
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Death rates by vaccination booster status
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Analytics for U.S. government websites
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Global ripple effect from underwater volcano
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A visual and audio tour of sound at Nap Nap Swamp
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Congressmen who enslaved people
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Debating About Visualization – The Process 172
The discussions this week felt familiar. Probably because we’ve seen this many times, since the beginning of charts themselves.
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New shopping search patterns from the pandemic
Schema Design, Google Trends, and Axios collaborated on The New Normal, looking at…
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All-time temperature records broken in 2021
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Settling all the internet debates in one go with a bunch of polling
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Play miniature golf, learn about congressional redistricting
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Scale of the bigger, more detailed universe
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Powers of Ten
The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames from 1977 shows the…
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A Quick and Easy Way to Make Spiral Charts in R
Now that we’ve discovered another way to annoy chart snobs, here’s how you can make your own spirals.
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