The Facebook Data Team had a quantitative look at status updates by age…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
-
Facebook status updates: young people are self-centered and old ramble
-
Worst and best commutes in America
I grew up in a relatively small city where it took no more…
-
The Joy of Stats with Hans Rosling
The Joy of Stats, a one-hour documentary, hosted by none other than the…
-
How Twitter users balanced the budget
In a follow-up to their puzzle to balance the budget, The New York…
-
Comparison of Republican and Democratic tax plans
Lori Montgomery of the The Washington Post reports on the difference between the…
-
What New Yorkers complain about
Wired, in collaboration with Pitch Interactive, has a look at complaints called in…
-
When people break up, according to Facebook updates
For his book The Visual Miscellaneum, David McCandless, along with Lee Byron, had…
-
Past century of government and economy
John Palmer has a look at the past 100 years of government and…
-
Issues Americans care about
Every year the Pew Research Center asks Americans what their top political priority…
-
Visualizing NFL statistics
Sports statistics. Always so many tables. Juice Analytics takes a more visual approach…
-
Average age of Congress over time
I don’t know about you, but I tend to associate Congress with an…
-
Challenge: Advertised vs. actual waistline
Ever notice how pants seem to fit differently from store-to-store even though they’re…
-
Exploratory tool for school admissions
With thousands of applications, it can be tough deciding who to admit in…
-
Music listening preferences by gender
Last.fm intern Joachim Van Herwegen has a quick look at listening habits by…
-
Expense visualizer
In an effort to make Canadian government expense data more accessible, FFunction designed…
-
Faith and poverty in the world
Using data from a recent Gallup report showing a correlation between wealth and…
-
Countries of the world ranked by stuff
What country has the best education? Health? Quality of life? Thomas Klepl and…
-
Stacked area shows the Web is dead?
Wired has declared that the Web is dead in their September cover story,…