Michael Beuoy made a win probability model for NBA teams and games, based…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Every NBA team’s chances of winning, by game minute
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Identifying cheaters in test results, a simple method
Jonathan Dushoff had issues with students in his population biology class cheating on…
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Top 1% earners versus bottom 90%
Quoctrung Bui for Planet Money plotted average income for the top one percent…
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Not just one chart
There is no more reason to expect one graph to “tell all” than…
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Human brain size compared to animals’
Mosaic provides a simple comparison of brain size in a handful of animals…
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Professor ratings by gender and discipline
Based on about 14 million reviews on RateMyProfessor, this tool by Ben Schmidt…
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Shrinking middle class
The Upshot has a detailed, chart-filled summary of the shrinking middle class, categorized…
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Where and why men outnumber women
There are an estimated 60 million more men than women on this planet,…
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Feeling hot, hot, hot
When you look at overall global temperatures over time, you see a rising…
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Japan fertility rate forecasts versus reality
It’s hard to predict the future, especially when humans are involved. Oftentimes, there…
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Most decade-specific words in Billboard song titles
David Taylor looked for words in Billboard song titles that appeared during a…
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Increasing rates of men who don’t work
Recent data from the Census Bureau suggests the rate of non-working men has…
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Detailed visualization of NBA shot selection
Sports loves conditional distributions. What does Joe Billy Bob typically do against such…
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Serial views
Like many, I’ve been listening to Serial every week, but I always just…
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Pie chart pyramid
This pyramid pie chart just might take the pie chart humor crown from…
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A scaled Periodic Table of Elements
Inspired by a diagram from 1976, the Big Picture group at Google Research…
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Pianogram
This is what you get when you cross a histogram and piano keys…
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Earth-orbiting satellites, all of them
David Yanofsky and Tim Fernholz for Quartz visualized the satellites orbiting Earth. There’s…