Statistical Visualization

Peyton Manning, quarterback for the Denver Broncos, passed up Brett Favre’s career record…

NPR spent some time on the subject of the decline of women in…

On Quora, someone asked, “What are the chances of survival of individual chess…

The New York Times takes a data-centric look at the progress of the…

Jeff Leek was trying to explain the curse of dimensionality and realized that…

Since the recession, it’s taken a while for household incomes to come back…

Periscopic, for Scientific American, visualized the number of PhDs awarded in various countries.…

Movies and television shows often reflect cultural trends of the time they are…

In high school health class, where I learned about contraceptives and the dangers…

In another use of data from the American Time Use Survey, Planet Money…

Daily life in cities tends to differ from daily life in small towns,…

An additional hour of sleep can make a huge difference in how you…

Yelp released an amusing tool that lets you see how the use of…

LeBron James decided to head back to Cleveland, so naturally the odds that…

Packing underwear for a short trip is easy. You just pack a pair…

For small-ish amounts of hierarchical data, most JavaScript libraries can handle the load.…

I’m pretty sure xkcd is the only one who gets away with showing…

A statistical model, from Yair Ghitza of Catalist and Andrew Gelman of Columbia…