Colin Morris culled common misspellings on Reddit and made the data available on…
Infographics
Telling stories with data and graphics.
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Celebrity name spelling test
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Searching for the saddest punt ever, with statistics
For SB Nation, Jon Bois takes a statistical deep dive in the search…
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French fry power rankings
Lucas Kwan Peterson for the Los Angeles Times ranked fast food french fries.…
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Scale of Star Wars characters and ships
It’s the scale of significant Star Wars characters, objects, and ships from Episode…
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Evolution of the periodic table of elements
As more elements were discovered, the table grew and changed layout. For Science…
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Evolution of the alphabet
Matt Baker provides this nifty diagram on how the alphabet changed over the…
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Closeness in relationships over time, illustrated with a couple of lines
Cartoonist Olivia de Recat illustrated the closeness over time for various relationships. Charming.…
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xkcd: technical analysis
Seems about right.…
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Scale of tens
I’m always up for some scaled perspective. From David Packer:
Anyone need a…
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Real-time speed of light from Earth to Mars
Hurry up, light. We’re gonna be late:
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Government shutdown, other industries provided for scale
As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The…
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Border wall progress chart
Denise Lu for The New York Times provides a quick overview of the…
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Kernel density estimation explainer
Matthew Conlen provides a short explainer of how kernel density estimation works. Nifty.…
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Top NBA player by zone
Kirk Goldsberry is back at ESPN. I put this here mainly because it’s…
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Modern reproduction of 1847 geometry books
Euclid’s Elements is a series of 13 books produced in 300 BC that…
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Falling ticket prices for longer flights
Based on data from Expedia, this is an interesting one from The Economist.…
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Same facts but different stories, an illustration
Multiple people can look at the same dataset and come out the other…
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Years of life lost due to breathing bad air
Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute estimated the number of…