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The Chart That The US Police Force Does Not Want You To See
USA is #1 once again... that'll teach the cynics. Oh wait...
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Size doesn’t matter for these data visualization experts | #data14 CrowdChat | SiliconANGLE
My latest in SiliconANGLE: This week, data pros are gathering at the 7th annual Tableau Conference to discover how to leverage their investment in data analytics and to discover what’s next in business intelligence. In this CrowdChat, data pros discuss how the size of data affects data visualization, the importance of making data visualization accessible to all workers, and other data topics expected to be covered at the Tableau conference.
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The world's happiest nations, in one map
Gallup's well-being data takes a comprehensive look at 135 countries.
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Global carbon dioxide emissions in one convenient map
When we talk about greenhouse gas emissions, it’s usually in the form of one big number (bigger every year) representing the global total. There’s also the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, which knows no borders. When it comes time to talk policy (during UN climate negotiations, for example), national totals for the top emitters will enter the conversation—too often to aid an argument that some other country should be the one to start doing all the work.
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What Will It Take to Run A 2-Hour Marathon
The current world record of 2:02:57, set by Kenyan Dennis Kimetto this year in Berlin, works out to 4:41.5 per mile; a sub-two would require less than 4:35 per mile. Will a human ever run that fast? To answer that question, we assembled a database of more than 10,000 top marathon performances going back half a century, using rankings compiled by the Association of Road Racing Statisticians.
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What the World Eats
Daily diets vary considerably around the world.
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Five Ways to Lie with Charts
A chart’s purpose is usually to help you properly interpret data. But sometimes, it does just the opposite. In the right (or wrong) hands, bar graphs and pie charts can become powerful agents of deception, tricking you into inferring trends that don’t exist, mistaking less for more, and missing alarming facts.
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Do We Run More On Christmas? And what about New Year's?
We know more runners run on Thanksgiving than on any other holiday. The threat of abundance in the form of a good meal is enough to send thousands of us out for a pre-emptive 5-K (or 10-K or whatever). So where does Christmas stack up in the must-run-on-this-holiday hierarchy? And do runners in the U.S. behave the same on that day as runners in say, France or Mexico? What about New Year's Day–do runners the world over start the year off with a bang, or a rest day?
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How Nonemployed Americans Spend Their Weekdays: Men vs. Women
Every year, the American Time Use Survey asks thousands of Americans to record a minute-by-minute account of one single day. For many “prime-age” adults, those between the ages of 25 and 54, a significant chunk of time on weekdays is taken up by work. But for the almost 30 million prime-age Americans who don’t work, a typical weekday looks far different.
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What the world values, in one chart
The Inglehart-Welzel map offers a global look at our values and beliefs.
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Who Really Had The Best Movie Career After 'SNL'
FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver's newly launched website at ESPN, uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about politics, science, economics, lifestyle, and sports.
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Watch Four Years of Oil Drilling Collapse
The last four years have seen the fastest expansion of oil production in American history. An unprecedented drop-off in new drilling ventures foreshadows its end.
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Heroin Overdoses Are Killing Four Times As Many People
Heroin deaths in the U.S. have nearly quadrupled in the past 15 years and skyrocketed since 2010 according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Men overdose more often than women, the report shows, and young white men are succumbing at a higher rate than any other demographic—roughly 7 deaths per 100,000 people. Unfortunately the Justice Department saw this coming. The feds have been cracking down on prescription drug abuse throughout the past decade...
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Minimal Maps
Minimal Maps is an ongoing project that explores how richly-detailed single subject maps can give us new imagery to understand our landscape. The data is accurate for the year 2014 and explores the American (lower 48 states) landscape as a whole entity. The project is a continuation of the work began in 2012 while at Archework's Chicago Expander Workshops, where I was a research fellow.
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NYC Street Trees by Species
New York City's urban forest provides numerous environmental and social benefits, and street trees compose roughly one quarter of that canopy. This map shows the distribution and biodiversity of the city's street trees based on the last tree census.
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TRAVIC - Transit Visualization Client
This tracker provides movement visualization of transit data published by transit agencies and operators from all over the world. The movements are mostly based on static schedule data. Wherever real-time data is available it is also included in the visualization.
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The amazing, surprising, Africa-driven demographic future of the Earth, in 9 charts
The United Nations Population Division, which tracks demographic data from around the world, has dramatically revised its projections for what will happen in the next 90 years. The new statistics, based on in-depth survey data from sub-Saharan Africa, tell the story of a world poised to change drastically over the next several decades.
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Map: The remarkable distances you can travel on a European train in less than a day
Tourists visiting Europe are often advised to travel by train rather than plane or car. Trains are considered reliable, fast and relatively cheap. But as a new research project shows, there are major differences within Europe: Whereas you can travel from London to Paris in less than four hours, traveling the same distance can last more than 22 hours in eastern Europe.
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UFO Sightings Since 1915
Cool and detailed infographic of UFO sightings since 1915.
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Orbital Objects
Explore the myriad defunct satellites, debris, and junk floating around our planet
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