Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
Killings of blacks by whites ruled “justified”
In a collaboration between The Marshall Project and The Upshot, Daniel Lathrop and…
Game of Thrones character chart, you decide
I’ve never seen this Game of Thrones show, but I suspect this will…
Voronoi diagram of people in the park
From Rod Bogart, a Voronoi diagram of people sitting in Bryant Park. It’s…
Hotter and hotter summers, extremely hot
Climate scientist James Hansen and team looked at summer temperatures over several decades.…
An interactive to explain histograms, for normal people
Histograms require some statistical knowledge to grasp, and without the tidbits, the distribution…
Boost economy with immigration
Want to increase the GDP? Easy. Let more immigrants in. Lena Groeger for…
Gender representation in comic books
Amanda Shendruk for The Pudding analyzed how genders are represented differently in comic…
Peak times for leisure and sports
The American Time Use Survey asks people what they do during the day.…
Temperature simulation near the Earth’s core
Researchers are building models to simulate the Earth’s core. From CNRS News:
Take…
Politics of religious leaders
Kevin Quealy for The Upshot looks at political party registration of religious leaders,…
LeBron James passed Michael Jordan in playoff points
As a Golden State Warriors fan, I am obligated to dislike LeBron James,…
Multiplayer stock market game with real money
Twitch launched Stock Stream, which is a multiplayer stock market game that uses…
All of Mister Rogers’ cardigan colors
While watching a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood marathon, Owen Phillips for The Awl wondered…
Most popular colors used by most popular sites
Paul Hebert was curious about the colors used on the web’s larger sites,…
YouTube plays for ‘It’s Gonna Be May’
It’s that time of year again. Turn up the volume and blast It’s…
NFL draft performance vs. expectations
Reuben Fischer-Baum for The Washington Post looks at professional football expectations given their…
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…
Why momentum works
Gabriel Goh models momentum over at the new machine learning journal Distill. The…