When watching baseball on television, we get the benefit of seeing whether a…Tags: baseball, FiveThirtyEight, sports, work | Continue reading
Abstract: The Art of Design kept popping up on my Netflix recommendations list…Tags: Christoph Niemann, illustration | Continue reading
Focus on finding or displaying contrasting points, and some visual methods are more helpful than others. A guide.Tags: comparison, contrast, difference | Continue reading
Look from the above at the shapes and geometry we use for cities,…Tags: geometry, Google, satellite | Continue reading
Learning algorithm steps can be a challenge when viewed only through code or…Tags: algorithm, humor, IKEA | Continue reading
Hans Rosling was able to build excitement around data like no other. Truth…Tags: book, facts, Hans Rosling, world | Continue reading
The colors you choose to visualize data can completely shift what you convey…Tags: color, perception | Continue reading
This comic from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal speaks to me. You can quantify…Tags: humor, SMBC | Continue reading
From Joshua Stevens at the NASA Earth Observatory: But over the longer term,…Tags: first leaf, global warming, NASA | Continue reading
Based on data gathered by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA pieced together this…Tags: high resolution, moon, NASA, space | Continue reading
Rafael Irizarry introduces the dslabs package for real-life datasets to teach data science:…Tags: R, teaching | Continue reading
Show connections in the circular layout for a more compact presentation.Tags: R | Continue reading
This is a fun drawing experiment in R by Antonio Sánchez Chinchón. A…Tags: R, traveling salesman | Continue reading
One way to think about gender pay gap is to imagine women receive…Tags: calendar, Guardian, pay gap | Continue reading
There are many ways to estimate how similar two cities are — weather,…Tags: demographics, jobs, Upshot | Continue reading
In 1939, John and Ruby Lomax traveled through ten southern states in three…Tags: history, music | Continue reading
Elizabeth Barber was in a long-distance relationship, and Strava was a way for…Tags: relationships, Strava, Wired | Continue reading
Alec Barrett for TWO-N describes the benefits and some of the intricacies of…Tags: animation, transitions | Continue reading
Maps typically show a view from straight above, which is good for navigation…Tags: perspective, satellite | Continue reading
Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian: In at least one previous…Tags: facebook, privacy | Continue reading
Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…Tags: facebook, Google, privacy | Continue reading
From 2010, Steve Jobs on data privacy:…Tags: privacy, Steve Jobs | Continue reading
Building on their previous visualization work on black boys dropping income levels in…Tags: demographics, income, Upshot | Continue reading
Lisa Charlotte Rost for Datawrapper provides guidance for designing choropleth maps that most…Tags: choropleth, color | Continue reading
As we get older, job options shift — along with experience, education, and wear on our bodies.Tags: age, work | Continue reading
Emily Baumgaertner reporting for The New York Times: But critics of the change…Tags: census, citizenship, immigration | Continue reading
Vega-Lite is a grammar for interactive graphics primarily used for analysis. Altair is…Tags: Python | Continue reading
The USA National Phenology Network uses a computer model to estimate heat build-up…Tags: New York Times, weather | Continue reading
Issie Lapowsky for Wired: The change that’s already come to Pennsylvania may not…Tags: gerrymandering, Wired | Continue reading
As you can imagine, there was plenty of conversation between Earth and Apollo…Tags: Apollo 11, conversation, space | Continue reading
Research by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie Jones, and Sonya Porter from the…Tags: income, race, Upshot | Continue reading
Army ants function without a leader and yet accomplish very organized-looking things, such…Tags: ants, independence | Continue reading
Frustrated with vehicles blocking bus and bike lanes, Alex Bell applied some statistical…Tags: bike lane, machine learning | Continue reading
Michael W. Kearney implemented a classifier for Twitter bots. It’s called botornot: Uses…Tags: bot, machine learning, Twitter | Continue reading
The Upshot has used a needle to show shifts in their live election…Tags: needle, uncertainty, Upshot | Continue reading
Kofi Annan for Nature on the importance of data in ending poverty and…Tags: gaps, hunger | Continue reading
Many cities provide free bus tickets for homeless people who want to relocate.…Tags: Guardian, homeless | Continue reading
Speaking of outliers, it’s not always obvious when and why a data point…Tags: outlier, R | Continue reading
Neural networks can feel like a black box, because, well, for most people…Tags: Google, neural network | Continue reading
Step 1: Figure out why the outlier exists in the first place. Step 2: Choose from these visualization options to show the outlier.Tags: outlier | Continue reading
I think it’s every statistician’s fantasy to crack open a lottery’s flaw using the numbers. No? Just me? Okay, whatever.Tags: lottery | Continue reading
As 2020 approaches, let's aim for higher accuracy and less uncertainty.Tags: census, counting | Continue reading
In a project he calls Sentence Space, Robin Sloan implemented a neural network…Tags: neural network, sentence | Continue reading
False positives. Over-policing. Bias. This isn't stuff you just mess around with.Tags: Palantir, police, prediction, privacy, Verge | Continue reading
Smart home. Smart city. They have a positive ring to it, as if…Tags: privacy, smart city | Continue reading
556 people have gone to space. In an article on their changed perspectives,…Tags: astronauts, National Geographic, space | Continue reading
Make the unit chart less abstract with icons that represent the data, or use this in place of a bar chart.Tags: R | Continue reading
Birds migrate to areas more hospitable, but where do they go? It depends…Tags: birds, migration | Continue reading