Nearly all maps are an attempt to represent our environment (generally Earth) in a two-dimensional format. The act of systematically transposing a 3D to a 2D object is called projection, and it’s a ...

The Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP). It’s a comparison tool for currencies, based on Big Mac prices and exchange rates. It helps to show whether a currency is ...

(We use this XML intermediate representation for historical reasons. Replacing it with something more efficient is on our to-do list.) At this point, we have a collection of single characters and ...

Q. So, very first thing, ICIJ has said that it will release a batch of data later this spring, but not the entire dataset—could you say a little about that, and about the way you’re timing the ...

Back in May of this year, I set myself a challenge: I wanted to try as many applications and libraries and programming languages in the field of data visualization as possible. To compare these tools ...

Picture this: you’re sitting in a car, and the car next to you starts to pull forward. For a moment you feel like you’re moving backwards. That brief feeling of disorientation, where the world is ...

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We see a moment coming when the collection of endless streams of data is commonplace. As this transition accelerates it is becoming increasingly apparent that our existing toolset for dealing with ...

At Spirited Media, I coordinated the launch and execution of membership programs for Billy Penn, Denverite and The Incline. We learned a lot, fast, and built a suite of tools to help us measure ...

A video demo of the data extraction process for this experiment. I convert a ton of text documents like PDFs to spreadsheets. It’s tedious and expensive work. So every time a new iteration of AI ...

Intro to Part Two of Snow Fall (New York Times) The New York Times’ astonishing Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, launched in the final days of 2012, capped a year of extraordinary work in ...

With the launching of 538, Vox and the New York Times’ Upshot, it seems like the age of data journalism is finally here, greeted with both acclaim and concern by media critics. But data journalism is ...