Speeding increases energy in a crash exponentially

A car moving at 70 miles per hour has to stop suddenly. Another…Tags: Numberphile, speeding, traffic | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Beginner’s guide to visualization literacy

Mikhail Popov, a data scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, led a workshop on…Tags: learning | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

How Long You’ll Have to Wait at a Restaurant Before You Get a Table

A waiting simulator to take out some of the guesswork.Tags: simulation, waiting | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Who’s winning the medal race, depending on how you weight the medals

Every year, we look at the medal counts of each country. Who’s winning?…Tags: Josh Katz, Olympics, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

The personal data you generate when you book a flight

Every time we book a flight, a Passenger Name Record is generated and…Tags: privacy, travel | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Mikaela Shiffrin pulling away for gold

Mikaela Shiffrin won her first gold medal in PyeongChang with a fraction of…Tags: New York Times, Olympics, skiing | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Fantasy map generator

This is fun. It’s a fantasy map generator with the following rules: Project…Tags: fantasy, generator | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Visual introduction to the Fourier Transform

One of my least favorite electrical engineering courses in college was on signals…Tags: Fourier Transform | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Where constituent input ends up

When you have input to send Congress, you have a number of communication…Tags: feedback, flowchart, government | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

FiveThirtyEight datasets available for download

If you’re looking for some data to play with, FiveThirtyEight just made it…Tags: FiveThirtyEight | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Olympian mechanics

Well this is awesome. The New York Times highlighted four olympians with a…Tags: New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

People font

You know those graphics that use icons of people to represent units or…Tags: font, icons, people | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

How Different Income Groups Spend Money

After living expenses, where does the money go, and how does it change when you have more cash available?Tags: spending | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Olympians in your living room through augmented reality

Well this is awesome. The Winter Olympics start this Friday, and The New…Tags: augmented reality, New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Roger Federer career in rankings and wins

Professional tennis player Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title recently. He’s…Tags: Roger Federer, sports, tennis | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Scissors congruence

The Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem says that if you have two polygons of equal area,…Tags: geometry, theorem | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Statistics crash course

Odds are if you’re reading this, you know what statistics is already, but…Tags: learning, video | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Redistricting the congressional map with different goals

FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…Tags: FiveThirtyEight, gerrymandering, government | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Bruises

Musician Kaki King’s daughter suffers from a condition (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) where her…Tags: Giorgia Lupi, health, human, Kaki King | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

[For Members] How I Made That: Animated Square Pie Chart

Also known as waffle charts. Using animated transitions between values, you can allow for comparisons between categories.Tags: d3js | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Secret army bases seen in public fitness tracking map

Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…Tags: military, privacy, Strava | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Visualizing Incomplete and Missing Data

We love complete and nicely formatted data. That's not what we get a lot of the time.Tags: missing data | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Finding fake followers

This fake follower piece by Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris, and…Tags: bot, fake, Twitter | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Hand-drawn how-to instructions using zero words

Inspired by Dear Data, the data drawing pen pal project, designers Josefina Bravo,…Tags: illustration, postcards | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Release strategies for Oscar-nominated films

Evie Liu and William Davis, reporting MarketWatch, looked at release strategies of Oscar…Tags: movies, Oscars | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Is there something wrong with democracy?

Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, for The New York Times, answer the question…Tags: democracy, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

World population estimator and gridded data from NASA

Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…Tags: NASA, population | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

The Demographics of Others

I think we can all benefit from knowing a little more about others…Tags: demographics | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Surprise, the world was warmer again in 2017

According to NASA estimates, 2017 was the second warmest year on record since…Tags: environment, global warming, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Data to identify Wikipedia rabbit holes

New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation: The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is…Tags: Wikipedia | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Compare your fears against reality

From ABC News, this is a clever comparison between people’s worst fears and…Tags: fear | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Musical hexagons

This is a fun ditty by Vasco Asturiano. I’m a little too far…Tags: music | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Back to the Future, Abridged Chart Edition

Back to more important topics, amirite?Tags: Back to the Future, movie | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Mapping global accessibility to cities

From The Malaria Atlas Project, a global map of estimated accessibility to cities:…Tags: accessibility, mobility | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Statistical detection of potential child abuse cases

Dan Hurley, reporting for The New York Times, describes the use of statistical…Tags: algorithm, police | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Scale comparison of wildfires

The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…Tags: California, fires, scale, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

When data is not quite what it seems

FiveThirtyEight used a dataset on broadband as the basis for a couple of…Tags: artificial intelligence, missing data | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

[For Members] How to Make Venn Diagrams in R

The usually abstract, qualitative and sometimes quantitative chart type shows relationships. You can make them in R, if you must.Tags: R | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

When the interesting pattern ends up just being computer byproduct

Good lesson here. Christian Laesser was playing around with receipt data and initially…Tags: receipt, shopping | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Unconstitutional gerrymandering

Alan Blinder and Michael Wines reporting for The New York Times:A panel…Tags: gerrymandering | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Spotting rip currents

Rip currents are like hidden rivers near the shore that head out to… | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Visualizing the Uncertainty in Data

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


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Obliteration Room invited people to put dotted stickers everywhere

The Obliteration Room (2012) by artist Yayoi Kusama started as a blank white…Tags: dots | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Where athletes in professional sports come from

Sports are growing more international with respect to the athletes. Gregor Aisch, Kevin…Tags: sports, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Field Guide to the R Ecosystem

If you’re looking to acquaint yourself with R — the non-coding aspects of…Tags: R | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Most popular GIFs used to express emotion in different countries

People often use animated GIFs to digitally express caricatures of emotion or reaction.…Tags: emotion, GIF, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Mapping perceived canopy tree cover in major cities

Treepedia, from the MIT Senseable City Lab, estimates perceived tree cover at the…Tags: city, environment, trees | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago

Time-lapse shows night sky at varying levels of light pollution

One of my favorite childhood memories is the time I went camping and…Tags: light, pollution, time-lapse | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 years ago