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British relationships throughout history 27 Aug 2013 | 10:59 am
In Kindred Britain, Nicholas Jenkins, Elijah Meeks and Scott Murray provide a visual exploration of how thousands of well-known British people are connected through blood and marriage. Kindred Britai...
A master’s degree in statistics is worthwhile 26 Aug 2013 | 01:33 pm
Statistician (and brand new PhD student) Jerzy Wieczorek explains the usefulness of a master's degree in statistics. There's a huge difference between undergraduate Stats 101 (apply a few standard pr...
Network of shared flavors 23 Aug 2013 | 02:41 pm
Jan Willem Tulp, for this month's Scientific American food issue, recreated the flavor network described by Yong-Yeol Ahn, et al. Julia Child famously said that fat carries flavor, but perhaps instea...
Learn to make animated information graphics 22 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
Graham Roberts, a graphics and multimedia editor at The New York Times, is teaching an online class on how to make animated information graphics and design storyboards. It's a chance to learn from one...
Pickle Index for population estimation 21 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
As China moves forward with a plan to move 250 million people to cities, officials developed a need to keep track of how many people are still in rural areas. The problem was that local data from the ...
Introducing the FlowingData Job Board 20 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
If my inbox has taught me anything, it's that there are a lot of data job openings, and there are a lot of qualified people for these jobs. The FlowingData Job Board is a place where companies with th...
Where non-English language is spoken in the US 20 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
Dan Keating and Darla Cameron for the Washington Post mapped commonly used languages in the US household. More than a quarter of counties in the United States have at least one in 10 households where...
Map shows illegal activity in San Francisco Chinatown, from 1885 19 Aug 2013 | 03:50 pm
From the David Rumsey map collection, the detailed map of San Francisco Chinatown shows areas of known illicit activity. In 1885, at the height of the anti-Chinese hysteria in California, the officia...
Extensive timelines of slang for genitalia 16 Aug 2013 | 12:54 pm
The title says it all. Jonathon Green, a slang lexicographer, has two new timelines. The first is an interactive timeline that shows slang for male genitalia going all the way back to the 1300s up to ...
Why everyone is more popular than you 16 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am
Mathematician Hannah Fry is back with another video. She explains why it seems like everyone in your network — on Twitter, Facebook, and in real life — is more popular than you and how we can use this...
