Speaking of A.I. and fiction, Adam Epstein for Quartz reported on how Wattpad,…
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Machine learning to find movie ideas
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A.I. love story
Pamela Miskhin, in collaboration with The Pudding, wrote a love story. It’s not…
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10 statistical lessons from the past pandemic year
The Royal Statistical Society published ten lessons governments should takeaway from this year,…
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Forecasting Covid-19 cases in the early goings
There was a lot of uncertainty in the beginning of the pandemic, so…
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Bats and outbreaks
For Reuters, Julia Janicki and Simon Scarr, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, show…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, February 2021 Roundup
Every month I collect new visualization tools and learning resources to help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for February 2021.
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RAWGraphs 2.0, an open-source tool to visualize data
RAWGraphs, a tool conceived by DensityDesign in 2013, got a 2.0 update in…
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Cooling Gulf Stream
This is quite a dive by Moises Velasquez-Manoff and Jeremy White for The…
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Schools should open their windows for ventilation
As schools begin to reopen, The New York Times illustrates why classrooms should…
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How Much Minimum Wage Changed in Each State
Minimum wage has increased over the years, but by how much depends on where you live.
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Definition of an algorithm
Oftentimes we see “algorithms” referenced in various contexts, but the definition of an…
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Social distancing when we’re back in the office
For Reuters, Sarah Slobin and Feilding Cage imagine life back at the office…
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About that one-year decline in life expectancy
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that said life…
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Make Bad Charts – The Process 128
Everyone’s a beginner at some point.
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Scale of the pandemic compared to the past
While we’re on the topic of scale, The New York Times plotted weekly…
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500,000 lives lost, an individual scale
The United States passed the half million mark for confirmed Covid-19 deaths. It’s…
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How Spending Changed for Different Income Groups
I compared spending in 1996 against the most recent spending estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Introducing a New Course on Mapping Geographic Data in R, with ggplot2
I’m happy to announce a new course on mapping geographic data in R,…
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How that iceberg would really float
A common depiction of an iceberg is one that has a short head…
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Bird flight patterns captured through long-exposure photography
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For several years, Xavi Bou has been using…