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Chart-Topping Songs as Graphs and Diagrams →
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Looking For the Closest Casino
Casinos are everywhere. This interactive map tells you how close the nearest one is in sampled areas of the United States.
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Where People Work and How Much They Make
Salaries for occupations with the same job title can vary across industries. This interactive shows you by how much and who works where.
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The Change My Son Brought, Seen Through Personal Data
I combed through personal data that I’ve actively and passively collected since early graduate school to see how life is different now with a 6-month old.
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Famous Movie Quotes as Charts →
In celebration of their 100-year anniversary, the American Film Institute selected the 100…
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Girls expected to live shorter lives in some counties?
We’ve seen life expectancy at the country and state levels, but the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation recently released life expectancy data at the county level.
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Gender wage gap, how much less women make than men
Three or four articles on the gender wage gap popped up on my radar last week, some focusing on the rise of women as the lead household earner and others on how much less women make. I took a look.
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Vehicles involved in fatal crashes
After seeing a map in The Guardian, I was curious about what other data was available from the National Highway Traffic Safety Association. It turns out there’s a lot.
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The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011
I almost didn’t make a best-of list this year, but as I clicked…
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Best statistics question ever
The question is great. The resulting comment thread is epic. What’s your answer?
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Who does all the text messaging? Young adults by far.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project published the results of their texting…
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Visualize This: Spotted in the wild
It’s been about a month since Visualize This came out, but it took…
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Visualize This: Published
Right now, at this very moment, I have an actual physical book on…
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Where the aliens are flying their UFOs
I came across some UFO sightings data on Infochimps, from the National UFO…
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Are gas prices really that high?
Since we’re on the subject of US gas prices, let’s take a look…
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Watching the growth of Costco warehouses
Costco is one of the best stores ever. It’s got everything you need…
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Review: Beautiful Visualization – Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts
I finally got a chance to take a closer look at O’Reilly’s most…
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Making recalls and market withdrawals more accessible
Last week I found out that the FDA has a feed for all…
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Exploring the Reach of Firefox
Once every blue moon I like to freelance as a short break from…
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Explorations of real-world traffic
We don’t often get to see how cars, trains, airplanes, etc move in physical space, because, well, we’re usually in them.