You’ve likely seen the classic Powers of Ten video from 1977. It starts…
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Powers of Ten, Derek Jeter style
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Probabilities of failing birth control methods
In high school health class, where I learned about contraceptives and the dangers…
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Race distributions of police departments versus residents →
When you compare distributions of race for police departments and for the residents…
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Not automatic
It’s an absolute myth that you can send an algorithm over raw data…
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Map of military surplus distribution
With the situation in Ferguson, the New York Times mapped the distribution of…
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State of birth, by state and over time
We’ve seen migration within the United States before, but Gregor Aisch, Robert Gebeloff,…
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Mapping the spread of drought, nationally →
Although California has perhaps had it the worst, drought also affects other states,…
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Senator John Walsh plagiarism, color-coded →
John Walsh, the U.S. Senator from Montana, is in the news lately for…
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Flights around Ukraine →
The New York Times is covering Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with a series…
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Changing World Cup fans →
Shan Carter and Kevin Quealy for the Upshot have a look at sports…
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Birth year and political leanings →
A statistical model, from Yair Ghitza of Catalist and Andrew Gelman of Columbia…
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Clubs that connect World Cup national teams →
Gregor Aisch for the New York Times explored how the soccer clubs that…
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Modern Love
Based on a column by Tim McEown, the animated video Modern Love by…
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Jobs recovery and loss, by industry →
Jeremy Ashkenas and Alicia Parlapiano for The Upshot just plopped this interactive sucker…
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What pregnant women want
In another take on the game of what Google suggests while searching, Seth…
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The United States of Metrics isn’t such a bad thing
Bruce Feiler for The New York Times describes his concern and distaste for…
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Views of white Americans
In light of the Donald Sterling brouhaha, Amanda Cox for The Upshot put…
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PourOver allows filtering of large datasets in your browser
The New York Times released PourOver, a library that lets you do database-like…
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The Upshot, a data-centric site from The New York Times launched
We heard a little bit about The Upshot last month. Now we get…
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Smoking rates and income →
Based on a study on smoking prevalence from 1996 to 2012, a map…