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I’m pretty sure this is all that most people want to know. The Upshot provides a tax calculator that considers …
The David Rumsey Map Collection, known for its many browsable historical maps, now has a “data visualization” subject tag. This …
I heard you like maps. Jim Vallandingham put together a collection of maps that show multiple variables, for inspiration and …
Disney is set to buy 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. I honestly don’t have the mental capacity or imagination …
Introducing yourself to R as an Excel user can be tricky, especially when you don’t have much programming experience. It …
Research group Euphrates experimented with lines and a ballet dancer’s movements in Ballet Rotoscope: By the way, rotoscoping is an …
Doug Mills, reporting for The New York Times: Echoing his days as a real estate developer with the flair of …
Statistician Kristian Lum described her experiences with harassment as a graduate student at stat conferences. She held back on talking …
Democrat Doug Jones won in the senate race against Republican Roy More last night. The Washington Post provides how different …
As everyone has already checked out for the rest of the year, I’m going to mess around with R to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas and nobody can stop me.
Shifting from one occupation to another can take a swing in the career path. Given your current job, what paths could you take? Here are some constructed possibilities.
When people move to different jobs, here’s where they go.
Or, given your age, the percentage of fish left in the sea. Here’s a chart.
Sleep. Work. Play. The times and everything in between change depending on who you talk to.
Unfortunately, while of varying magnitude, mass shootings are somewhat regular in the United States.
Become a member. Learn to visualize your data. From beginner to advanced.
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Seeing data
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Explaining data
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Working with data
Getting data
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Combining small multiples with the grid layout can make for an intuitive geographic reference.
For when you want to show or compare several distributions but don’t have a lot of space.
Add interaction so that you can show different segments of the data and allow comparisons.
Add the vertices. Connect them with edges. Repeat as necessary.
These are the quick and simple tools I use to pick colors to represent data.
I’ve been teaching my three-year-old son how to ride his bike on two wheels. When I first took off the …
Apples and oranges situations where the comparisons make no sense.
Mean, median, and mode. These are the first things you learn about in your introductory statistics course. It’s often all …
