10 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2017

It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year. Tags: best-of | Continue reading


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Charting all the major California wildfires since 2000

Based on data from CAL FIRE, Erin Ross, for Axios, plotted California wildfires…Tags: Axios, fire | Continue reading


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Getty Center fire resistance

Fire spread over Los Angeles, but the famous art works in the Getty…Tags: fire, Getty, Los Angeles, New York Times | Continue reading


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Family displacements through urban renewal

Hundreds of thousands of families were displaced in the 1950s under “urban renewal”…Tags: family, urban | Continue reading


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Alternatives to the rainbow color scale

Oh. It’s that time of year already. Time to hate on the rainbow…Tags: color, rainbow | Continue reading


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Q&A with Di Cook

Statistics professor Di Cook was one of the first people I ever talked to about visualization. She has a short Q&A over at StatsChat. I spent a few years doing that [a research assistant] and t… | Continue reading


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Introduction to regular expressions

If you want to analyze bodies of text, it’s a good to know…Tags: regular expression | Continue reading


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Ed Sheeran’s creative process explained with music visualization

The New York Times is back at it in explaining the creative process.…Tags: Ed Sheeran, music, New York Times | Continue reading


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How machines learn

Hearing about machine learning and algorithms a lot recently and not sure what…Tags: algorithm, explainer, machine learning | Continue reading


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Cards Against Humanity’s public poll results

For the past few months, Cards Against Humanity polled the American public to…Tags: Cards Against Humanity, polling, public | Continue reading


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Tax calculator that considers where you live

Here’s a different look at tax cuts and increases from Reuben Fischer-Baum for…Tags: taxes, Washington Post | Continue reading


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How your taxes will change

I’m pretty sure this is all that most people want to know. The…Tags: taxes, Upshot | Continue reading


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Rumsey Collection with a data visualization subject tag

The David Rumsey Map Collection, known for its many browsable historical maps, now…Tags: David Rumsey, vintage | Continue reading


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Multivariate map collection

I heard you like maps. Jim Vallandingham put together a collection of maps…Tags: collection, multivariate | Continue reading


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Disney-Fox market share

Disney is set to buy 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. I honestly…Tags: Disney, Fox, Quartz | Continue reading


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