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The Ash Cloud and Airport Shutdowns
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Swing vote effects explored with swingometer
With the 2010 UK elections coming up, the Guardian explores possible outcomes, given…
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Best place to catch a cab? Try Bloomingdale’s
Matthew Bloch, Ford Fessenden, and Shan Carter continue the New York Times geographic…
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Streamgraph code is available and open source
Some people love ’em and others hate ’em. Now you can play with…
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Discuss: Flowchart on drinkable water in the world
March 22 was World Water Day, and TreeHugger posted this graphic on drinking…
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Mapping GitHub – a network of collaborative coders
GitHub is a large community where coders can collaborate on software development projects.…
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March Madness Bracketology
The Final Four is just about here. Who’s going to win it all?…
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The periodic table to end all periodic table ridiculousness
A few centuries ago, scientists designed the periodic table to organize the elements…
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Wear the weather as a bracelet
We all know that data is the new sexy, so it’s only natural…
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March Madness by the numbers
I didn’t fill out my bracket this year, so it’s not nearly as…
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Statistical Atlas from the ninth Census in 1870
In 1870, Francis Walker oversaw publication of the United States’ very first Statistical Atlas, based on data from the ninth Census.
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Review: We Feel Fine (the book) by Kamvar and Harris
We Feel Fine, by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris, is a selection of some of the best entries from the database of 12 million emotions, along with some insights into the growing dataset.
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How Genetics Works
Simple yet effective. Any questions? [via 9gag | Thanks, Barry]…
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Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores
FloatingSheep, a fun geography blog, looks at the beer belly of America. One…
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Olympic musical – how fractions of second make all the difference
Like everyone, I’ve been watching the Olympics, and it continues to amaze me…
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News Topics as Social Network
All news is connected in some way or another. News Dots from Slate…
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Evolution of Olympic Pictograms
Every Olympics since 1936 has had a series of pictograms (i.e. icons that look like restroom signs) that represents the events.
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An Exploration of Biological Records
The Natural Science Museum of Barcelona has a growing database of 50,000 records…
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Man as Industrial Palace, Animated
In 1926, Fritz Kahn illustrated man as a working factory in his famous…
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OpenStreetMap Edits Towards Haiti Relief
ITO world, who you might remember from a year of OpenStreetMap edits, come…