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Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Chart chooser based on data format
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Tax changes for different groups
There’s less than a month until taxes are due. It’s the most wonderful…
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How to spot a partisan gerrymander
For FiveThirtyEight, William T. Adler and Ella Koeze describe how a metric called…
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Colors of Tintin
Marian Eerens charted the colors of each Adventures of Tintin book cover. The…
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Charting cholera, beyond John Snow
John Snow, who often gets the credit for showing the geographical patterns of…
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Names in movies vs. real life
Here’s a fun spin on the name analysis genre by Mary Zam. She…
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How fast emissions would reduce if other plans were adopted
The United States is doing pretty poorly in reducing emissions. For The New…
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Language used for the wall
For The Upshot, Kevin Quealy continues on his path looking at the words…
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News story lifespan charts
A wideout view of the news cycle can look like a series of…
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Personality quiz with traits on a spectrum
Ah, the online personality quiz, oh how I missed you. Oh wait, this…
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Voronoi diagram from smooshing paint between glass
It feels like magic. I think there’s a magic trick percolating in there…
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Higher turnout for midterm elections
Bloomberg charted voter turnout for the just past midterm elections, comparing 2018 against…
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Old Christmas songs get all the play time
Jon Keegan scraped the playlist from the local radio station’s all-Christmas playlist for…
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Soup-Salad-Sandwich space
The debate rages on about the categorization of food items as soup, salad,…
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Heatmap shows deaths by age in different countries
This interactive heatmap by Jonas Schöley shows mortality rates by age. Just use…
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Teaching kids data visualization
Jonathan Schwabish gave his fourth-grade son’s class a lesson on data visualization. He…
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A collection of Charles-Joseph Minard’s statistical graphics
Charles-Joseph Minard, best known for a graphic he made (during retirement, one year…
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Millions of data points with deep scatterplots
Ben Schmidt uses deep scatterplots to visualize millions of data points. It’s a…