Building a new software tool as web application is a great way to let lots of people have access to your creation without requiring them to install anything on their computer. Just deploy your application on a server, share the URL, …
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This post is to share a bookmarklet that I created to help ease access to articles behind publisher paywalls. If you try to access an article and get blocked by a publisher, this bookmarklet makes it easy to search the UNC Library …
Maps of election results are a staple in the US during campaign season. They appear in countless newspaper articles, TV news stories, and blog posts. Given the state-by-state nature of our electoral presidential election system, these maps are very valuable …
While there are a variety of Javascript libraries available for creating visualizations, the most widely used is D3.js. D3 stands for Data-Driven Documents, and at the core of D3 is a programming model in which users join data elements to document …
Risk is a difficult concept, in part because of the many ways it is measured. Interpreting specific numbers can be unintuitive even for people who do it every day, leading to critical decisions being made based on faulty interpretations of evidence. This is a place where …
In some of my recent research work, I’ve been thinkg about ways to expand the typical exploratory visualization process to incorporate more rigorous statistical assessments of the underlying samples being visualized. The power of visualization is that it can help people …
Aaron Reiss published a really interesting article comparing the design of metro ticket machines used by the MTA (in New York) and BART (in the Bay Area). The MTA ticket machines are an icon of design and, for me, bring …
With a move to a new house and a new class being developed, I’m a bit behind in posting to this blog. However, I wanted to make sure I eventually posted a link to this article from over the summer in the New …
An intersting article on the New York Times’ new data-based venture The Upshot highlights a study from researchers at USC, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago in which millions of marathon results were gathered together and plotted as a simple …
This TED talk, by Dan Ariely, is one I first saw a long time ago but happened to stumble across again this morning. Dan is the author of Predictibly Irrational, which is an easy-to-read book along the same lines as …
