GitHut - Programming Languages and GitHub A World of Terror Michael Phelps vs. Himself Credit: Donald Miralle/Allsport (left) and Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press (right) In 2000, Michael Phelps traveled to Sydney, Australia, to swim in his first Olympics. Now 31, Phelps — with a young son in tow and 23 Olympic medals around his neck — has swum in more Olympic events than anyone else in history. The Rio Games represent his fifth Olympics. 2016 Olympic Qualifying Times Each line is Phelps’s time in a single race Phelps retired during 2013, and was suspended for a D.U.I. for much of 2015. Slower times Swimmers often swim slower when training for important events. Phelps could do no wrong at the Beijing Olympics: he won gold in all of his events. He is training for Rio with a regimen similar to the one that helped him dominate in Beijing. Olympic Qualifying Times Each line is Phelps’s time in a single race Swimmers often swim slower when training for important events. Each dot is one race Phelps won gold in all of his events at the Beijing Olympics. +4.47 sec. ↺ Replay race Length 1 of 4
Pegasus Data Project | Plate-forme d'expérimentation en humanités numériques, réseaux sociaux, Twitter, influence sur le web et visualisation de données Data and visualization blogs worth following | FlowingData About three years ago, I shared 37 data-ish blogs you should know about, but a lot has changed since then. Some blogs are no longer in commission, and lots of new blogs have sprung up (and died). Today, I went through my feed reader again, and here’s what came up. Coincidentally, 37 blogs came up again. (Update: added two I forgot, so 39 now.) Design and Aesthetics information aesthetics — By Andrew Vande Moere, the first blog I found on visualization five something years ago.Well-formed data — Another one of the oldies but goodies. Statistical and Analytical Visualization Eager Eyes — I think the second blog I found on visualization. Journalism The Daily Viz — By Matt Stiles, data journalist at NPRchartsnthings — Kevin Quealy of The New York Times talks processInfographics news — Highlights news graphicsMatthew Ericson — Deputy graphics director at The New York Times General Visualization Maps Data and Statistics That’s what I read.
16 Captivating Data Visualization Examples Data can be very powerful. If you can actually understand what it's telling you, that is. It's not easy to get clear takeaways by looking at a slew of numbers and stats. Enter data visualization. Click here to download our free guide to data visualization for more examples and tips. But not all data visualization is created equal. So, how do organize data in a way that's both compelling and easy to digest? What is Data Visualization? Data visualization refers to representing data in a visual context, like a chart or a map, to help people understand the significance of that data. Whereas data in text form can be really confusing (not to mention bland), data represented in a visual format helps people extract meaning from that data much more quickly and easily. Data visualization can be static or interactive. Ready to feel inspired? Examples of Interactive Data Visualization 1) Why Buses Bunch 2) Languages in the World 3) Percent of U.S. 4) The Complete History of the NFL 5) U.S. 9) U.S.
Hip-Hop Is Turning On Donald Trump | FiveThirtyEight A small black child holds a “Fuck Donald Trump!” poster as sirens ring out and a police helicopter patrols overhead. The rapper YG appears, both middle fingers raised, and emphatically raps“Fuck Donald Trump / Fuck Donald Trump”over and over again. The imagery in the video for this year’s “FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)” by YG and Nipsey Hussle was striking, and the explicitly anti-Trump lyrics in a hip-hop song were even more so. Except that it wasn’t. Hip-hop has long been a political genre; artists often draw from and critique those in power. So I asked the lyrics annotation site Genius to send me every reference to Trump that appears in its database of songs. But perhaps even more surprising is that Hillary Clinton and the Clinton familyhave their own long, voluminous history of hip-hop references. It is unheard of for two presidential nominees to have been part of hip-hop’s conversation for so long — artists have dutifully chronicled their lives for decades.
Frontier Of Physics: Interactive Map “Ever since the dawn of civilization,” Stephen Hawking wrote in his international bestseller A Brief History of Time, “people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world.” In the quest for a unified, coherent description of all of nature — a “theory of everything” — physicists have unearthed the taproots linking ever more disparate phenomena. With the law of universal gravitation, Isaac Newton wedded the fall of an apple to the orbits of the planets. Our map of the frontier of fundamental physics, built by the interactive developer Emily Fuhrman, weights questions roughly according to their importance in advancing the field. The map provides concise descriptions of highly complex theories; learn more by exploring the links to dozens of articles and videos, and vote for the ideas you find most elegant or promising.
How every #GameOfThrones episode has been discussed on Twitter Every Sunday night, fans of HBO’s Game Of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) know that Twitter is the place to come to talk about the crazy plot twists, how they feel about the characters’ latest shocking actions, share their own memes, and more. Each #GameOfThrones season inspires millions of Tweets. The richness and variety of these conversations inspired us to explore what the audience is talking about in more depth. And here’s where that exploration landed us: Figure 1. Season 6 Episode 5 “The Door” (click to see interactive) Explore the visualization in full here. Read on to learn about how we built this visualization, and what we’ve learned about Game of Thrones - and its fans - from it. BackgroundWe started by gathering Tweets with keywords related to Game of Thrones in the 24 hours after each episode first aired. Figure 2. See the plots of every episode from network of charactersPlots, in a way, are connections between characters. Figure 3.
The Journalist-Engineer A couple months ago, I published an article comparing historic and present-day popularity of older music. I used two huge datasets: 50,000 Billboard songs and 1,4M tracks on Spotify. If I were writing an academic paper, I’d do a ton of analysis, regression, and modeling to figure out why certain songs have become more popular over time. Or I could just make some sick visualizations… Instead of reporting on my “theory”, I wagered that readers would get more out of an elegant presentation of the data, not an analysis of it. Here’s that same approach on another project: rappers and the size of their vocabulary. Instead of proving that one rapper was better than another, readers are really good at absorbing the data, and they’d much rather form their own judgements. A few years ago, Bret Victor wrote about the notion of passive and active readers: In theory, this sounds great…but kinda crazy. But it’s happening — there are active readers. I believe it’s a response to “too long, didn’t read.”
What is the Marital Status of Americans by Age? Visualization Data Notes A few months ago I created a visualization that allowed users to compare age distributions for various topics and another one that showed marital status by age range. Marital Status Sex Pretty generic question here. Race The ACS has six basic race categories. Employment Status This fields is broken out to let you see not only who is in the labor force and who isn’t, but it allows you to see age of those who are employed in the Armed Forces as well. State Geography often is associated with different trends. how fast does miles teller play in whiplash EDIT 05 Sep. 2015: The concept of Beat Per Minutes (BPM) has been mis-understood as mentioned by reddit. What I was supposed to write was Strokes Per Minutes (SPM). Released in 2014, Whiplash focuses on a promising young drummer (Miles Teller) pursuing his dream of greatness. I am unfortunately not a musician, nor an enlightened enthusiast, so what strikes me the most is the strong ability of Miles Teller to play quite fast. The metric used is the Beat Per Minutes (BPM) which, in the case of the drum, simplified to how many times the drummer hits his instrument per minutes. Now let's see how the Miles performs in the first see of the movie. The BPM of the final scene has also been studied (from 2:36 to 3:56 of the embedded video). Truly fast in my opinion. And finally, let's look at the BPM of the challenge given by the World's Fastest Drummer to Miles Teller. But as Miles said “Why would you challenge a guy who played in some garage bands in Florida and has a fun time doing it?
What You Like Falls on Party Lines Far and away, the Republican group is more country, while fans of Mrs. Clinton are more pop. At the top of the list for people who like Mrs. On Mrs. Rocker Ted Nugent tops the list for people who like Mr. The Ultimate Crowdsourced Map of Long Distance Relationships Around Valentine's Day this year, we got the idea of asking Atlas Obscura readers about one of the most fraught kind of relationships—the long distance kind, or LDRs. We assumed we'd get 50 or so responses, and maybe we'd pick a few stories to highlight. But nearly 600 of you filled out the survey. The results were incredible—and fill the interactive map above. People conducted relationships from the ends of the earth, spanning years and ostensibly filling whole hard drives with video chats and text messages. Long distance relationships are not temporary. But the numbers can only tell us so much. Paradise Bay, Antarctica. Remote Locations New York, New York to McMurdo Station, Antarctica I was living in NY when I got an OkCupid message from someone in Denver, even though my searches were set to the NY metro area only. Over the next six months, we exchanged long emails and asked each other the 36 questions that that NY Times article claims create intimacy between strangers. Met Online