To keep track of performance, Matt Stiles made the Dodgers Data Bot, which…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Dashboard for L.A. Dodgers baseball
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Shifting to batteries for electricity
To capture solar energy for use in the evening, batteries have grown in…
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Communal Plot, a shared coordinate space to see how your taste compares
PerThirtySix made a communal plot that asks for your opinion via scatterplot and…
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Genetic algorithm car race thingy
From the oldie-but-goodie department, this fun program uses a genetic algorithm to drive…
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Rise in prison death rates during the pandemic
The Marshall Project highlights research on excess mortality in U.S. prisons:
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Existing mortgages with lower rates than new ones
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing…
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Access to nature where you live
NatureQuant processes and analyzes satellite imagery to quantify people’s access to nature. They…
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Happiness ratings, by country and age
The World Happiness Report, published each year since 2012, just dropped for 2024.…
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Racial bias in OpenAI GPT resume rankings
AI is finding its way into the HR workflow to sift through resumes.…
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Diversity in college admissions without considering race
For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia and Emily Badger model how colleges might…
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Analysis of when movies use their own names in the dialogue
A title drop is when a movie mentions its own name during the…
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Rise of Caitlin Clark, scoring machine
Caitlin Clark, a basketball guard for the University of Iowa, has been steadily…
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Consumer confidence in current economic conditions
For NYT Opinion, Nate Silver compares consumer confidence between two surveys. The University…
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Investor expectations for interest rates compared to reality
This chart by Eric Wallerstein for the Wall Street Journal shows expectations against…
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Researchers might have found Amelia Earhart’s crashed plane
For NPR, Juliana Kim reports:
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Decline of the school bus
For WP’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam notes the decline of the…
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Learning animal languages with AI
Financial Times highlights how researchers are using AI to try to learn what…
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When movies become musicals and then movies again
For The Washington Post, Hanna Zakharenko charted all the movies that were adapted…