A car moving at 70 miles per hour has to stop suddenly. Another…Tags: Numberphile, speeding, traffic | Continue reading
Mikhail Popov, a data scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, led a workshop on…Tags: learning | Continue reading
A waiting simulator to take out some of the guesswork.Tags: simulation, waiting | Continue reading
Every year, we look at the medal counts of each country. Who’s winning?…Tags: Josh Katz, Olympics, Upshot | Continue reading
Every time we book a flight, a Passenger Name Record is generated and…Tags: privacy, travel | Continue reading
Mikaela Shiffrin won her first gold medal in PyeongChang with a fraction of…Tags: New York Times, Olympics, skiing | Continue reading
This is fun. It’s a fantasy map generator with the following rules: Project…Tags: fantasy, generator | Continue reading
One of my least favorite electrical engineering courses in college was on signals…Tags: Fourier Transform | Continue reading
When you have input to send Congress, you have a number of communication…Tags: feedback, flowchart, government | Continue reading
If you’re looking for some data to play with, FiveThirtyEight just made it…Tags: FiveThirtyEight | Continue reading
Well this is awesome. The New York Times highlighted four olympians with a…Tags: New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading
You know those graphics that use icons of people to represent units or…Tags: font, icons, people | Continue reading
After living expenses, where does the money go, and how does it change when you have more cash available?Tags: spending | Continue reading
Well this is awesome. The Winter Olympics start this Friday, and The New…Tags: augmented reality, New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading
Professional tennis player Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title recently. He’s…Tags: Roger Federer, sports, tennis | Continue reading
The Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem says that if you have two polygons of equal area,…Tags: geometry, theorem | Continue reading
Odds are if you’re reading this, you know what statistics is already, but…Tags: learning, video | Continue reading
FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…Tags: FiveThirtyEight, gerrymandering, government | Continue reading
Musician Kaki King’s daughter suffers from a condition (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) where her…Tags: Giorgia Lupi, health, human, Kaki King | Continue reading
Also known as waffle charts. Using animated transitions between values, you can allow for comparisons between categories.Tags: d3js | Continue reading
Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…Tags: military, privacy, Strava | Continue reading
We love complete and nicely formatted data. That's not what we get a lot of the time.Tags: missing data | Continue reading
This fake follower piece by Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris, and…Tags: bot, fake, Twitter | Continue reading
Inspired by Dear Data, the data drawing pen pal project, designers Josefina Bravo,…Tags: illustration, postcards | Continue reading
Evie Liu and William Davis, reporting MarketWatch, looked at release strategies of Oscar…Tags: movies, Oscars | Continue reading
Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, for The New York Times, answer the question…Tags: democracy, New York Times | Continue reading
Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…Tags: NASA, population | Continue reading
I think we can all benefit from knowing a little more about others…Tags: demographics | Continue reading
According to NASA estimates, 2017 was the second warmest year on record since…Tags: environment, global warming, New York Times | Continue reading
New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation: The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is…Tags: Wikipedia | Continue reading
From ABC News, this is a clever comparison between people’s worst fears and…Tags: fear | Continue reading
This is a fun ditty by Vasco Asturiano. I’m a little too far…Tags: music | Continue reading
Back to more important topics, amirite?Tags: Back to the Future, movie | Continue reading
From The Malaria Atlas Project, a global map of estimated accessibility to cities:…Tags: accessibility, mobility | Continue reading
Dan Hurley, reporting for The New York Times, describes the use of statistical…Tags: algorithm, police | Continue reading
The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…Tags: California, fires, scale, Washington Post | Continue reading
FiveThirtyEight used a dataset on broadband as the basis for a couple of…Tags: artificial intelligence, missing data | Continue reading
The usually abstract, qualitative and sometimes quantitative chart type shows relationships. You can make them in R, if you must.Tags: R | Continue reading
Good lesson here. Christian Laesser was playing around with receipt data and initially…Tags: receipt, shopping | Continue reading
Alan Blinder and Michael Wines reporting for The New York Times:A panel…Tags: gerrymandering | Continue reading
Rip currents are like hidden rivers near the shore that head out to… | Continue reading
Data is an abstraction, and it's impossible to encapsulate everything it represents in real life. So there is uncertainty. Here are ways to visualize the uncertainty.Tags: uncertainty | Continue reading
The Obliteration Room (2012) by artist Yayoi Kusama started as a blank white…Tags: dots | Continue reading
Sports are growing more international with respect to the athletes. Gregor Aisch, Kevin…Tags: sports, Upshot | Continue reading
If you’re looking to acquaint yourself with R — the non-coding aspects of…Tags: R | Continue reading
People often use animated GIFs to digitally express caricatures of emotion or reaction.…Tags: emotion, GIF, Upshot | Continue reading
Treepedia, from the MIT Senseable City Lab, estimates perceived tree cover at the…Tags: city, environment, trees | Continue reading
One of my favorite childhood memories is the time I went camping and…Tags: light, pollution, time-lapse | Continue reading