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Statistics Knowledge Panel 18 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
A few months ago my group at work launched the Statistics Knowledge Panel, which shows you an interactive chart when you search for a public data statistic on Google: The feature uses query refinemen...
dygraphs 1.0.0 15 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
Six years ago I created dygraphs, an interactive JavaScript charting library. Four years ago, I open sourced it. Yesterday, we officially released version 1.0.0. The project continues to grow, someti...
And Then There Were Eight 15 Aug 2013 | 05:23 pm
Back in February, I posted a list of living people born in the 1800s. There were twelve. Now, six months later, we’re down to eight! As one of my coworkers says, there seems to be a conspiracy where t...
Daily Citibike Usage 23 Jun 2013 | 02:11 am
I enjoyed Antonio D’Souza’s Citibike Traction chart but thought it painted an overly rosy picture by showing cumulative rides, not daily rides. Here’s a version of his chart with daily rides: Saturd...
Generating Training Data 20 Apr 2013 | 11:26 pm
As you may remember from a previous post, I’ve been doing some work with a collection of old images. The first problem was to write a program to find the individual photos in images like these: ...
NCAA Brackets 28 Mar 2013 | 07:28 am
My group recently launched a custom UI for March Madness searches: The Sweet Sixteen view looks particularly nice on tablets, where you get high resolution team logos and crisp text for the team name...
Keep your HTML in your HTML 3 Mar 2013 | 11:25 pm
I sometimes see code like this to generate DOM structures in JavaScript: This style gets very confusing very quickly. The issue is that it uses JavaScript to write HTML, CSS and even JavaScript insid...
How Many Living People Were Born in the 1800s? 24 Feb 2013 | 01:34 am
According to Wikipedia, there are twelve living people born in the 1800s: # Name Sex Birth date Age Residence 1 Jiroemon Kimura M 1897 April 19 115y 310d Japan 2 Misao Okawa F 1898 Mar...
Insights from a World Population Density Map 22 Feb 2013 | 07:45 pm
I recently saw this map on the delightful “MapPorn” subreddit: Please click through to the full image, it’s huge! What I love about this map is that insights spring right out of it. A few that came ...
GPS Tracking Polio Vaccinators 13 Feb 2013 | 08:03 am
I’ve followed the Global Polio Eradication Initiative for the past few years, ever since I watched The Final Inch, a short documentary which chronicles the effort. The Initiative recently released a ...
