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
Most of us don’t read the terms and conditions before we click on “I agree” for the web services we use. They’re too long, and we need likes right away. For a student projec… | Continue reading
Moving your data from the digital screen to something more physical isn’t as tricky as it seems. Here’s how I did it. | Continue reading
By Neil Freeman, the @everytract bot on Twitter, as the name suggests, is tweeting a map of every Census tract in numerical order. It’s one map each half hour. Census data, or data in general… | Continue reading
I think this is what statistics is truly for. | Continue reading
Roger Peng discusses the importance of managing the relationships between people — analyst, patron, subject matter expert, and audience — for a successful analysis: Human relationships … | Continue reading
Aaron Williams and Armand Emamdjomeh for The Washington Post delve into diversity and segregation in the United States. The boiling pot continues to get more ingredients, but they’re not mixi… | Continue reading
You’ve probably heard of the wisdom of crowds. The general idea, popularized by James Surowiecki’s book, is that a large group of non-experts can solve problems collectively better than… | Continue reading
We almost always look at data through a screen. It’s quick and good for exploration. So is there value in making data physical? I played around with a 3-D printer to find out. | Continue reading
Jonathan Corum, the Science graphics editor at The New York Times, talks about his experiences communicating scientific research to the public. Much of visualization design is about figuring out th… | Continue reading
Taylor Baldwin mapped all of the buildings in Manhattan using a 3-D layout. Rotate, zoom, and pan, and be sure to mess around with the parameters in the control panel for different looks. Also make… | Continue reading
With Numberphile, Lisa Goldberg discusses her research with Alon Daks and Nishant Desai at the University of California, Berkeley on the hot hand in basketball. When a player is hitting shots, is h… | Continue reading
It’s been a decade since the first Iron Man movie, and some 30 superhero characters later, we arrive at a two-parter Avengers finale. But maybe you lost track of everything that happened lead… | Continue reading
When it comes to robots and love, the concept typically deteriorates to subservient tools to satisfy male fantasies. Creative technologist Fei Lu aims for a more complex relationship with Gabriel20… | Continue reading
Sisi Wei for ProPublica and Nick Fortugno of Playmatics made a game to…Tags: asylum, game, ProPublica | Continue reading
Janelle Shane, who likes to play with output from neural networks, teamed up…Tags: knitting, neural network | Continue reading
Neural networks have shown usefulness with a number of things, but here is…Tags: dinosaurs, flowers, neural network | Continue reading