Topics
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Making Data Viz Without SVG Using D3 and Flexbox
Bye bye tricky SVG alignments. Hello SVG-free data viz!
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Easier Scrollytelling with Position Sticky
Leaning on CSS to simplify the process
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An Introduction to Scrollama.js
The what, why, and how to use scrollama.js for your next scrollytelling story
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How to Make Dope Shit Part 2: Design
Some pointers on learning to design data-driven visual essays.
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How to Make Dope Shit Part 1: Working with Data
Familiarize yourself with the tools used to make visual, data-driven essays.
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How Many Users Resize Their Browser?
A look at actual data and how to deal with it
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The Making of the Weighted Pivot Scatter Plot
How (and why) the interactive chart was born
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Regional Smoothing in R
A guide to smoothing geospatial data in R
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Responsive Scrollytelling Best Practices
How to plan or adapt a scrollytelling story for mobile.
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How to Implement Scrollytelling with Six Different Libraries
How to tackle a simple scroll-driven chart using six different libraries
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The Winningest Cities in North American Sports
What makes a titletown in sports?
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A Visual History of Every Air Jordan
Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs over the last 33 editions.
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The Most-Viewed NBA Plays in 2017-18
Warning: this video contains a high dosage of LeBron footage.
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One-Hit Wonders in Sports
The greatest single-season anomalies in the last 30 years
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What is a Superteam in the NBA?
Defining what a superteam is with data
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The Most Timeless NBA Plays
Historic NBA games and plays, ranked by YouTube views
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How Russell Westbrook Can Average a Triple-Double
As of March 10, Russell Westbrook is averaging a triple-double.
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Do NBA Refs Favor the Home Team?
Analyzing reviewed calls to rank NBA teams by favorable home court officiating
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NBA Last Two Minute Report
A review of the NBA officiating from the Last Two Minute Report
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Twenty Years of the NBA Redrafted
Using career stats to prove the best/worst NBA draft picks, ever
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Ranking the Most Unlikely NBA Comebacks
Identify the most statistically unlikely comebacks this season
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30 Years of American Anxieties
What 20,000 letters to an advice columnist tell us about what concerns us most.
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What Does the Path to Fame Look Like?
Tracking the rise in popularity from Cardi B to Carson Wentz
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A Visual History of Every Air Jordan
Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs over the last 33 editions.
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The Celebrity Billboard Project
Tracking the popularity of cultural figures in 2018
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Women's Pockets are Inferior
You already know this. But now we've got the data to show it.
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Life After Death on Wikipedia
What pageviews tell us about how famous people are remembered after they die
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What Airport Traffic Tells Us About the World's Megacities
Kinshasa, DR Congo, a city of 13 million people has 13 departing flights per day.
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Let’s Talk About Birth Control
No TMI here, just 20,759 people describing their experiences with contraception.
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The Diversity of Makeup Shades
Fenty Beauty is a champion for makeup inclusivity. How do other brands compare?
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Baking the Most Average Chocolate Chip Cookie
Cookie recipes written by computers — what could go wrong?
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A Tale of Two Cities
Using data to write love letters to the cities we call home
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Mapping Gastronomic Borders in the US
How US culture dictates geographic restaurant patterns
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10 Things Everyone Hates About You
Exploring over 30 million feelings towards 3,000+ topics
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The Dining Habits and Companions of Americans
The frequency of dining alone
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What City is the Microbrew Capital of the US?
Using beer review data to rank the best cities in the country
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The Emergence Of Slang, Using Search Data
Emerging slang, identified by searches for words’ definitions
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Film or Digital?
Breaking down Hollywood's choice of shooting medium
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The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy
The genius of Ali Wong’s Netflix special
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Listen to Her: Gender on This American Life
The story behind the gender divide on This American Life
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She Giggles, He Gallops
Analyzing gender tropes in film with screen direction from 2,000 scripts
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‘The Office’ Dialogue in Five Charts
A breakdown of how every character contributed to the show
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Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters
How are female characters in superhero comics depicted?
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Plot Trends for Top-Grossing Film from the Past 50 Years
This is a story about how film plots mirror (or shape) historical events.
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Bias, She Wrote
How much progress has American literature made towards gender equality?
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The Geographic Divide of Oscars Films
Mapping the popularity of Oscar-nominated films in 2017
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An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton
From the moment I sat down to listen the whole way through, I was done for...
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The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever
From 2,000 screeplays, broken down by age and gender
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Hollywood's Gender Divide and its Effect on Films
The writers, directors, and producers who make films that fail the Bechdel test
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The Sexualized Messages Dress Codes are Sending to Students
What we learned about sexualization from analyzing 481 high school dress codes
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The World through the Eyes of the US
The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900
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A Brief History of the Past 100 Years
An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines
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Population Mountains
This is a story about how to perceive the population size of cities.
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Human Terrain: Population in 3D
Visualizing the World’s Population as a Terrain
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Tech Jobs may not Solve America’s Looming Automation Crisis
Tech retraining programs are becoming more popular. They may not be a solution.
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The Road to Gender Parity in the House of Representatives
Exploring 100 years of women in politics through data and machine learning
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Gender Representation in Parliamentary Speeches
Exploring 100 years of women in parliament through data and machine learning
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Men are from Chelsea, Women are from Park Slope
How “gayborhoods” in 15 major American cities are divided by gender
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Limbo Lines: Dead Here, Alive There
Brain death’s role in the uncertainties of death
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How CNN, MSNBC, and FOX Cover the News
The story you get depends on the channel you watch
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Newspapers: A Black & White Issue
Measuring racial diversity in journalism
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An Analysis of Driving Times to Abortion Clinics in the US
Mapping the cities and places with the worst access
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Why the Republican Party Wins When Robots Take Your Job
Job automation is only a matter of time. Here's why the right will benefit.
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Free Willy and Flipper by the Numbers
The past, present, and future of captive whales and dolphins
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The Timing of Baby Making
Births, broken down by geography and month
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Why Does the US Lead the World in Incarceration?
How we got here is one of the most debated questions in policy.
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Mapping Slavery Against US Incarceration
How do historic incarceration rates differ between slave and non-slave states?
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How News Media Covers Trump & Clinton
Analyzing 12,147 images of Trump and Clinton
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Rappers, Sorted by the Size of their Vocabulary
The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics
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Internet Boy Band Database
Every boy band to chart the Hot 100 since 1980
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The Most Emo Lyrics: Emo Rap vs. Dashboard Confessional
Who has more emotionally vulnerable lyrics, emo-rap or Dashboard Confessional?
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The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly
An exploration into the music of skateboarding
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The Cultural Borders of Songs
We mapped last month’s #1 songs in 3,000 places.
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Are Hit Songs Becoming Less Musically Diverse?
Today’s hit artists are take fewer risks and create a narrower range of sounds
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The Words That Are “Most Hip Hop”
Using math to rank words that are central to artists’ vocabularies
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Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm
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The Unlikely Odds of Making it Big
What three years and 75,000 shows tell us about the chance of success
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How Robert Glasper Sampled Miles Davis on “Ghetto Walkin”
An interactive story about the art of sampling
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The 2,452 Wikipedia Pages on which Miles Davis is Mentioned
25 years after his death, you can find Davis' fingerprints on many other ideas.
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How Music Taste Evolved
Top 5 songs, from '58-'16, so we can stop arguing about when music was still good
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Crowdsourcing the Definition of “Punk”
Looking at playlists to learn how parts of culture perceive genres
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The Most Succesful Labels in Hip Hop
Hip hop record labels, sorted by their artists' chart performance on Billboard
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The Most Timeless Songs of All-Time
Using Spotify to measure the popularity of older music
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Outkast, in Charts
A look at Outkast's history through the lens of data