As I listened to my young neighbors run around the parking lot chanting,…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Tweets per second during Bin Laden announcement
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Dropping movie ratings from the past six decades
Dorothy Gambrell of very small array charts median Tomatometer ratings of the top…
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Visual evidence that movies are getting worse
Moki takes a page out of the OkCupid social media playbook and analyzes…
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America is not the best at everything
Charles M. Blow has a look at some metrics for the International Monetary…
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The Grammy winning sales bump
A Grammy win is worth way more than a little trophy and some…
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Exploratory treemap for Obama’s 2012 budget proposal
It’s that time of year again. Obama recently released his 2012 budget proposal…
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Gamers mimic the real life football season
As you might expect, people who play sports video games tend to play…
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Watch the world get fatter over the past three decades
People are getting fatter everywhere. You know this. But there’s nothing like the…
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Price and adoption timeline of gadgets
New gadgets, from Web-connected TVs, to smartphones, to Fax machines, always seem to…
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Delicious mass exodus
On news that Delicious is on Yahoo’s sunset list, thousands of people decided…
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Facebook status updates: young people are self-centered and old ramble
The Facebook Data Team had a quantitative look at status updates by age…
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Worst and best commutes in America
I grew up in a relatively small city where it took no more…
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The Joy of Stats with Hans Rosling
The Joy of Stats, a one-hour documentary, hosted by none other than the…
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How Twitter users balanced the budget
In a follow-up to their puzzle to balance the budget, The New York…
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Comparison of Republican and Democratic tax plans
Lori Montgomery of the The Washington Post reports on the difference between the…
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What New Yorkers complain about
Wired, in collaboration with Pitch Interactive, has a look at complaints called in…
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When people break up, according to Facebook updates
For his book The Visual Miscellaneum, David McCandless, along with Lee Byron, had…
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Past century of government and economy
John Palmer has a look at the past 100 years of government and…