With Girl Scout cookie season around the corner, Wired pies it up with…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Girl Scout cookie pie chart
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How the deficit got so big
The US continues to rack up more and more debt, with a deficit…
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All the countries that the US owes money to
In May 2011, the United States owned $14.3 trillion in debt. A lot…
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When crime happens in major cities
Does more crime happen during the late hours of the night or in…
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Award-nominated movies vs. highest grossing
Dorothy Gambrell of very small array continues with her fascination of movie quality…
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RottenTomatoes trends with Career-o-matic
Slate puts together a rough analysis of RottenTomatoes actor and director career ratings.…
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Rise and fall of housing prices
Kevin Quealy and Jeremy White report for The New York Times on the…
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Reactions to the death of a terrorist
On the announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death, there was a mixed reaction…
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Tweets per second during Bin Laden announcement
As I listened to my young neighbors run around the parking lot chanting,…
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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…