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Great viz

http://www.visualcinnamon.com/babynamesus

Watch Cities Spread Across The Planet Over 5K yrs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/history-of-cities-urbanization-map_us_576433f3e4b0fbbc8bea3eda nice #dataviz of 10K pts of urban population data HT @NAChristakis

How Much Warmer Was Your City in ’15
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/19/us/2015-year-in-weather-temperature-precipitation.html#new-haven_ct Great #viz of NHV’s freezing Feb. & hot Dec. HT@chaubtu

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/19/us/2015-year-in-weather-temperature-precipitation.html#new-haven_ct

The Tail End, Wait But Why
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html Great #viz of an entire life; ~33k days in 90 yrs fits into a small fig via
@suganthibala

Periodic Table, scaled to abundance on Earth http://bit.ly/1rlyfSx pic.twitter.com/n9Xbfoe8x1 Illustrates importance of 1st row HT @pickover

http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/relative_abundance.jpg

They published a paper on a web tool to generate box plots !! http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n2/full/nmeth.2811.html QT:{{”
Despite the obvious advantages of the box plot for simultaneous representation of data set and statistical parameters, this method is not in common use, in part because few available software tools allow the facile generation of box plots. For example, the standard spreadsheet tool Excel is unable to generate box plots.
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M.S. and J.W. conceived of the box plot tool
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Related:
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/01/21/bioinformatics.btu038.abstract

http://d3js.org

The Price of Life http://contentviewer.adobe.com/s/Wired/5857345fd35d4d1f9a1f00273013f68a/WI0814_10_Folio/2000_2208IN_deathvmoney.html Nice #visualization of NIH #funding, showing emphasis on #cancer & diabetes v heart disease

#BigData & Its Technical Challenges
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/7/176204-big-data-and-its-technical-challenges/abstract Data acquisition, cleaning, aggregation, analysis, visualization & interpretation

Jason H. Moore, Ph.D @moorejh · Jul 5
MT @randal_olson #visualization of the hardest parts of the
multiplication table #math #edchat
http://www.flurrished.co.uk/blog/2013/07/03#the_hardest_times%20table

MT @moorejh @randal_olson #viz of hardest parts of the times table; note, difficulty of 10*11
http://www.flurrished.co.uk/blog/2013/07/03#the_hardest_times%20table http://pic.twitter.com/hAeVd49XZX

http://www.flurrished.co.uk/blog/2013/07/03#the_hardest_times%20table