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Character mentions in Les Miserables
Jeff Clark took a detailed look at Victor Hugo's Les Miserables via character mentions, word connections, and word usage. The above is character mentions with color showing sentiment. Red means...
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When it was time to settle down with the right man, Amy Webb joined two dating sites, created a profile, and went on some horrible dates. Her solution was to create fake male profiles and then scrape...
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Global temperature rises over past century
New Scientist mapped global temperature change based on a NASA GISTEMP analysis. The graphs and maps all show changes relative to average temperatures for the three decades from 1951 to 1980, the...
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How to Animate Transitions Between Multiple Charts
Sometimes one chart just isn’t good enough. Sometimes you need more. Perhaps the story you are telling with your visualization needs to be told from different perspectives and different charts cull out...
View Articlesilenc: Removing the silent letters from a body of text
During a two-week visualization course, Momo Miyazaki, Manas Karambelkar, and Kenneth Aleksander Robertsen imagined what a body of text would be without the the silent letters in silenc. silenc is...
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Slitscanning online videos
Thanks to Sha Hwang, you can now siltscan videos on YouTube and Vimeo with an easy-to-use bookmarklet. Just go to the video and click. In case you're unfamiliar with the technique, here's a description...
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Data Points: First look
For the past year, I've been working on Data Points: Visualization that Means Something, and you can pre-order it now. Visualization has grown a lot in the 5-something years I've written for...
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Billionaires of the world ranked and charted
How wealthy are the richest people in the world? How do they compare to each other, and how does their net worth change over time? Bloomberg just put up an interactive tool to answer such questions,...
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Evolution of science fiction covers in color
Arthur Buxton plotted the most common colors of Penguin Publishing science fiction colors and arranged them over time. Also available in print. I wonder if there's a good way to show connections...
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Internet Explorer causation
I'm almost certain this relationship is significant. Side note: Is there a meaningless-correlations tumblr yet? [via]
View ArticleTen years of cumulative precipitation
We've all seen rain maps for a sliver of time. Screw that. I want to see the total amount of rainfall over a ten-year period. Bill Wheaton did just that in the video above, showing cumulative rainfall...
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NFL fans on Facebook, based on likes
As the Super Bowl draws near, Facebook took a look at football fandom across the country. The National Football League is one of the most popular sports in America with some incredibly devoted fans. At...
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Baseball Hall of Fame voting trajectories
Carlos Scheidegger and Kenny Shirley, along with Chris Volinsky, visualized Major League Baseball Hall of Fame voting, from the first class in 1936 (which included Babe Ruth) up to present. All a fan...
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Mercator map puzzle
The Mercator projection can be useful for giving directions, but when it comes to world maps, the projection doesn't hold up well as you move far north and south. By how much? Give this puzzle game a...
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The most poisoned name in US history
Biostatistics PhD candidate Hilary Parker dived into the most poisoned names in US history. Her own name topped the list. There were several fad names such as Deneen, Catina, and Farrah that saw a...
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Super Bowl ad costs vs. company profit during game
Ritchie King for Quartz compared money spent on Super Bowl ads — now about $3.75 million for a 30-second spot — to how much the companies make on average in 3 and a half hours (the average length of a...
View ArticleTime running parallel
In Waters Re~ artist Xárene Eskandar placed video of the same landscape at different times of day in parallel. They capture the subjective and perceptual qualities of time expressed as events,...
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A visual exploration of US gun murders
Information visualization firm Periscopic just published a thoughtful interactive piece on gun murders in the United States, in 2010. It starts with the individuals: when they were killed, coupled with...
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Local pub flowchart
From Reddit user ddurrr while visiting London. Pretty much my current status and mental capacity. [Thanks, Tom]
View ArticlePhilosophy of data
David Brooks for The New York Times on the philosophy of data and what the future holds: If you asked me to describe the rising philosophy of the day, I’d say it is data-ism. We now have the ability to...
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