From Rod Bogart, a Voronoi diagram of people sitting in Bryant Park. It’s…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Voronoi diagram of people in the park
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Hotter and hotter summers, extremely hot
Climate scientist James Hansen and team looked at summer temperatures over several decades.…
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An interactive to explain histograms, for normal people
Histograms require some statistical knowledge to grasp, and without the tidbits, the distribution…
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Boost economy with immigration
Want to increase the GDP? Easy. Let more immigrants in. Lena Groeger for…
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Gender representation in comic books
Amanda Shendruk for The Pudding analyzed how genders are represented differently in comic…
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Peak times for leisure and sports
The American Time Use Survey asks people what they do during the day.…
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Temperature simulation near the Earth’s core
Researchers are building models to simulate the Earth’s core. From CNRS News:
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Politics of religious leaders
Kevin Quealy for The Upshot looks at political party registration of religious leaders,…
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LeBron James passed Michael Jordan in playoff points
As a Golden State Warriors fan, I am obligated to dislike LeBron James,…
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Multiplayer stock market game with real money
Twitch launched Stock Stream, which is a multiplayer stock market game that uses…
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All of Mister Rogers’ cardigan colors
While watching a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood marathon, Owen Phillips for The Awl wondered…
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Most popular colors used by most popular sites
Paul Hebert was curious about the colors used on the web’s larger sites,…
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YouTube plays for ‘It’s Gonna Be May’
It’s that time of year again. Turn up the volume and blast It’s…
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NFL draft performance vs. expectations
Reuben Fischer-Baum for The Washington Post looks at professional football expectations given their…
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Stephen Curry for MVP, because he makes his teammates better the most
The choice for Most Valuable Player in the NBA is only minimally about…
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Why momentum works
Gabriel Goh models momentum over at the new machine learning journal Distill. The…
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A century of facial hair styles
Facial hair styles change with the years. One year it might be more…
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Pianist eye tracking
What does a pianist look at while playing? Put a pair of eye…