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An infographical look at Walking Dead kills over three seasons
Andrew Barr and Richard Johnson for the National Post took a detailed look at the who, what, and when of Walking Dead kills. While AMC lets The Walking Dead gang take a short mid-season break — the...
View ArticleThe differences between machine learning, data mining, and statistics
From machine learning to data mining. From statistics to probability. A lot of it seems similar, so what are the differences? Statistician William Briggs explains in an FAQ. What's the difference...
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Relationships and kills in Game of Thrones replayed
This one's for you Game of Thrones fans and aficionados. Jerome Cukier visualized groups of people, from Lannisters to Starks, and kills throughout the books. Each circle represents a character and is...
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Get a visual recap of your year on Twitter
As 2013 nears, let the recaps, reviews, and best ofs begin. Twitter put up their 2012 year in review of top tweets, trends, and such, which is mostly pictures and lists, but in collaboration with...
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Statistical network of basketball
By now, everyone's heard of Moneyball. Applying statistics to baseball to build the best team for the buck. Naturally, there's a lot of interest these days in applying the same data-based philosophy to...
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An ideal bookshelf
Thessaly La Force, with illustrator Jane Mount, recently published My Ideal Bookshelf, which is a look into the books that some people of interest, including Judd Apatow, Chuck Klosterman, and Tony...
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Sitegeist: A mobile app that tells you about your data surroundings
From businesses to demographics, there's data for just about anywhere you are. Sitegeist, a mobile application by the Sunlight Foundation, puts the sources into perspective. Sitegeist is a mobile...
View ArticleAn introduction to diagrams
As a teaser for a larger project on diagrams, Jane Nisselson describes how they exist in the real world. Diagrams are everywhere — from the established conventions of highway signs to the newly...
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Getting Started with Charts in R
So you want to make some charts in R, but you don't know where to begin. This straightforward tutorial should teach you the basics, and give you a good idea of what you want to do next. (more...)
View ArticleAnimated growth of an organization
A company grows, it shrinks, people come and go. Justin Matejka, a research scientist at Autodesk, visualized the changes for where he works. The OrgOrgChart (Organic Organization Chart) project looks...
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National Rifle Association grades for Congress members
The New York Times mapped ratings for members of Congress, as given by the NRA. The National Rifle Association gives members of Congress a grade ranging from A to F that reflects their voting record on...
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Longer life expectancy, more years of disease
Bonnie Berkowitz, Emily Chow and Todd Lindeman for the Washington Post plotted life expectancy against percentage of healthy years. Although life expectancy is increasing, the percentage of years...
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Your tax rate in 2012, and past rates since 1913
What is your effective tax rate now versus years past? Ritchie King made an interactive to show you. Having not been alive in the '50s or '60s, let alone filing taxes, I was struck by the high top...
View ArticleData Analysis (with R) on Coursera
Jeff Leek, an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is teaching a course on data analysis on Coursera, appropriately named Data Analysis. This...
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Earth as Art book from NASA
The Earth as Art is a compilation of NASA satellite imagery that shows the planet from a new perspective. The sensors on the satellite measure light outside the visible range, which makes for beautiful...
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Evolution of Batman logo, 1940-2012
Available in print. See also: a video version. Still no confirmation for whether or not if Batman in fact does smell or if Robin laid an egg.
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NFL video screens compared
On news of the Houston Texans getting ready to build the largest video screens in professional sports, Reddit user dbeat compared the sizes of current NFL screens to the future giant. It's just...
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Map: Laconic history of the world
Cartographer Martin Elmer made a truncated history map of the world: This map was produced by running all the various countries’ “History of _____” Wikipedia article through a word cloud, then writing...
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Map of every person counted in 2010 US Census
In the 2010 United States Census, 308,745,538 were counted, and Brandon Martin-Anderson from the MIT Media Lab mapped almost all of them (308,450,225 points to be exact). I like the flow-like pattern...
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Wine industry network in the US
A group of researchers at Michigan State University, led by Phil Howard, explored the network of wine in the United States. No other section of the supermarket offers as many choices as the wine aisle....
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