Microsoft released a comprehensive dataset for computer-generated building footprints in the United States. The method: We developed a method that approximates the prediction pixels into polygons m… | Continue reading
LeBron James decides where he takes his talents this summer, and the sports news outlets continue to review every scenario as rumors trickle in. Neil Paine and Gus Wezerek for FiveThirtyEight prese… | Continue reading
It’s important to consider the reasons so that we don’t overreact. Otherwise, we’re just berating, pointing, and laughing all of the time, and that’s not good for anyone. | Continue reading
ProPublica compiled spending data from a wide range of sources to calculate the total, which is still an undercount: The vast majority of the money — at least $13.5 million, or more than 84 percent… | Continue reading
Kepler.gl, a collaboration between Uber and Mapbox, allows for easier mapping of large-scale data. From Shan He for Uber: Showing geospatial data in a single web interface, kepler.gl helps users qu… | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Education constantly investigates school districts and colleges for civil rights violations. Lena Groeger and Annie Waldman for ProPublica made the data more accessible, prov… | Continue reading
Condé Nast Traveler got 70 people from 70 different countries to count money on camera. Many times I found myself wondering, “Why would you ever do it like that?” There’s a metaph… | Continue reading
It’s in the details of 100,000 moments. I analyzed the crowd-sourced corpus to see what brought the most smiles. | Continue reading
Sandra Rendgen describes the history of “data” the word and where it stands in present day. All through the evolution of statistics through the 19th century, data was generated by human… | Continue reading
Henry Hinnefeld answers the age-old debate of which Mario Kart character is best, using data as his guide. Some people swore by zippy Yoshi, others argued that big, heavy Bowser was the best option… | Continue reading
A few years ago, Stephanie Yee and Tony Chu explained the introductory facets of machine learning. The piece stood out because it was such a good use of the scrollytelling format. Yee and Chu just … | Continue reading
I feel like I was supposed to know what blockchain is a while ago, but I’ve only had a hand-wavy explanation on hand. And it wasn’t a very good one. Reuters provides a clear and concise… | Continue reading
Oh. So that’s why I was always placed in right field that one year. Little League Analytics ⚾️ pic.twitter.com/THf5FyqRF7— PetrosAndMoneyShow (@PetrosAndMoney) June 14, 2018 | Continue reading
Benjamin Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, explored the space between words and drew the paths to get from one word to another. The above, for example, is the p… | Continue reading
This is quite the scatterplot from Claire Cain Miller and Kevin Quealy for The Upshot. The vertical axis represents by how much girls or boys are better in standardized tests; the horizontal axis r… | Continue reading
In a spin on the view of ancient Earth and the shift of the continents, Ian Webster made a globe where you can enter a location and see what was in that spot millions of years ago. Not all addresse… | Continue reading
I used a combination of existing tutorials and a bunch of shapefiles to map one dot per person. | Continue reading
Every day you wish you could convert a picture of your family or a group of friends into a LEGO palette. Well wish no more. Ryan Timpe wrote a package that lets you input an image in R and get back… | Continue reading
The health meter in video games wasn’t always so commonplace. It took time, iterations, and various incarnations before it converged to what we know now. Ahoy describes the history: | Continue reading
How the schedules between remote and non-remote workers differ during workdays. | Continue reading
Thousands of homicides. Some cases result in an arrest. Many end up unsolved. The Washington Post mapped areas in major cities to show the contrast between the two types of homicide cases. The data… | Continue reading
Facebook took the biggest hit in the past three years. Snapchat and Instagram got more likes. | Continue reading
How the schedules between remote and non-remote workers differ during workdays. | Continue reading
xkcd. Sometimes sports statistics are far-fetched. | Continue reading
Slowly becoming the person who charts the past century of natural disaster events, Lazaro Gamio for Axios uses a pictogram to depict all known volcano eruptions since 1883. The vertical position re… | Continue reading
The ink-drawn map of Hundred Acre Wood by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator E. H. Shepard dates back to 1929. I’m headed straight for Eeyore’s gloomy place, which is rather boggy and sad. The… | Continue reading
Artist Marcus Lyon imagines worlds where there are so many people that the only thing left to do is to make gigantic places to fit everyone. The patterns repeat themselves over and over, and itR… | Continue reading
By Raymond Loewy, this chart from 1934 shows the shifts in design of the car, telephone, and clock, among other things. I assume someone is already working on updating this one to the present. [via… | Continue reading
This is what happens when there is a lull during the basketball playoff season. Chris Herring, for FiveThirtyEight, goes into full detail of the relatively high number of times Kevin Durant’s… | Continue reading
Emily Robinson gives advice on applying for a data science job (that you can likely generalize for most tech jobs). For example: If you have a GitHub, pin the repos you want people to see and add R… | Continue reading
Popular songs on the Billboard charts always tended to sound similar, but these days they’re sounding even more similar. Andrew Thompson and Matt Daniels for The Pudding make the case: From 2… | Continue reading
Visualization is often described in the context of speed and efficiency. Get the most insight for the least amount of ink or pixels. Elijah Meeks argues that visualization goes far beyond this poin… | Continue reading
Many surveillance apps cater to parents who want to keep tabs on their children who have mobile phones. Many of these apps are used for less parental purposes. Jennifer Valentino-DeVries for The Ne… | Continue reading
Wow your friends during the game with random win percentages, based on various player stats. | Continue reading
Amazon’s Rekognition is a video analysis system that promises to identify individuals in real-time. Amazon wants to sell the systems to governments for surveillance. From the ACLU: Amazon is … | Continue reading
Wow your friends during the game with random win percentages, based on various player stats. | Continue reading
Ken Auletta for The New Yorker looks at “math men” replacing the Mad Men: Engineers and data scientists vacuum data. They see data as virtuous, yielding clues to the mysteries of human … | Continue reading
Nigel Holmes, the graphic designer known for his playful illustrated graphics, has a new book: Crazy Competitions. It’s exactly what it sounds like. Whether it’s flinging frozen rats or parad… | Continue reading
Imagine that those with immigrants in their family tree left the country. Almost everyone, basically. | Continue reading
Food trucks are the real deal these days. The best ones serve a specialized menu really well, in a small, focused space. The Washington Post delves into the insides of several of these trucks and h… | Continue reading
Educate Your Child by Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee uses census data and the school selection process to simulate the steps you you might take in choosing your kid’s first school in Chicago. The Chi… | Continue reading
For a second, let’s imagine that everyone with a immigrants in their family tree left the country. | Continue reading
Adam Pearce for The New York Times describes the sad state of affairs that is the delayed subway trains in New York. One delay causes a ripple effect down the line, leaving little chance to get bac… | Continue reading
Financial Times recently updated their style guide: data — the rule for always using data as plural has been relaxed. If you read data as singular then write it as such. For example, we alrea… | Continue reading
Simone Giertz, bringer of joy and self-described expert in shitty robots, makes machines that succeed in failing. In her TED talk, Giertz talks about her path from “useless” things to e… | Continue reading
Eric Rodenbeck from Stamen Design discusses visualization the medium over visualization the tool or the insight-providing image: Dataviz! Data visualization! I don’t think it’s for anything! I don’… | Continue reading
Focus on finding or displaying contrasting points, and some visual methods are more helpful than others. A guide. | Continue reading
The 2020 Census is coming up quick, but there’s still a lot up in the air. There’s no director, the bureau has to adjust to budget cuts, and a new digital system that promises to save m… | Continue reading