For the downtime post-turkey. James Trimble stuck the top 200 reddits of all…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Top reddits of all time
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Spectrogram shows dialup modem handshake sounds
Presented mostly for my fond memories as a grade schooler, with a fresh…
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Furloughed employees during shutdown
Dan Delany took a simple look at furloughed employees due to the government…
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Crunching the wedding numbers
Weddings are special events where friends and family come together to celebrate, and…
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Weather models, a visual comparison
Forecast, one of the best if not the best quick-look weather sites, uses…
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Rappers’ claimed wealth versus actual wealth
Allison McCann for Businessweek graphed rappers’ claimed wealth in their songs versus their…
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Visualizing uncertainty still unsolved problem
Vivien Marx in Nature Methods:
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Price of Damien Hirst spot paintings →
Damien Hirst is an artist known for a number of works, one of…
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Visualising data with ggplot2
Hadley Wickham gives a two-hour video tutorial on how to use his ggplot2 package in R. I have limited experience with it, but a lot of people really like it and use the package exclusively for their visual analysis needs.
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Central limit theorem animation
The central limit theorem:
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Ratings of TV shows over time
The quality of television shows follow all kinds of patterns. Some shows stink…
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A thorough Facebook analysis by Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram analyzed the Facebook world, based on anonymized data from the Wolfram|Alpha…
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Analysis of baseball ticket pricing
If you’ve ever looked at ticket prices for sporting events, you probably noticed…
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Chartspotting: Coffee graph menu
FlowingData reader Amir sent this along. In lieu of a list of coffee…
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Internet Census
Upon discovering hundreds of thousands open embedded devices on the Internet, an anonymous…
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Bettings lines for becoming the next pope
Who’s going to be the next pope? I know all of you are…
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Chart Check: Did Obama’s Graphics ‘Enhance’ His Big Speech? →
Helped out some for this NPR article
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State of the Union address decreasing reading level →
With the State of the Union address tonight, The Guardian plotted the Flesh-Kincaid…