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• Design

  

  Bracketology: A March Madness Data Visualization

  The designer Leonardo Aranda drew up this colorful chart showing how teams advanced through the NCAA basketball tournament between 1985 and...

  by Andrew Price

• Culture

  

  Journalism in the Age of Data, a Visually Stunning Documentary

  Geoff McGhee's video "Journalism in the Age of Data," explores the exciting potential and occasional pitfalls of modern data visualization.

  by Patrick James

• Design

  

  How Might We Visualize Data in More Effective and Inspiring Ways?

  We have many dashboards available to us today in many contexts: finance, forecasts, consumption, demographics, etc. We witness the emergence...

  by Engin Erdogan

• Design

  

  Fact and Fiction (and How to Tell the Difference) in Data Visualization

    This post is a response to "How Might We Visualize Data in More Effective and Inspiring Ways?" Read more of the conversation...

  by Sara Olsen, Robert Bailey

• Environment

  

  The Dirty Energy Powering Your Web-Based Life

  A new Greenpeace report show just how much energy it takes to run our internet lives.

  by Ben Jervey

• Culture

  

  A Daily Email for Aspiring Writers Is Truly Inspired

  If you've resolved to write more in 2012, a daily email with writing prompts could put you in the mood.

  by Zak Stone

• News

  

  Obama's Public Schedule Is Now Truly Public

  Want to know what Obama is up to today? You're in luck. As of this week, the White House is making the President's public schedule available...

  by Andrew Price

• Culture

  Which Up-and-coming Visual Artist Do You Have Your Eye on?

  by GOOD

• Education

  

  Is Value-added Teacher Data Flawed?

  Amidst the imbroglio kicked up by The Los Angeles Times series of articles on teacher effectiveness data comes the findings of a research paper...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan

• Education

  Should Teacher Names and Student Achievement Data Be Made Public? The Community Answers

  by Hillary Newman

• Culture

  

  The Future of Journalism (and Everything) Is Data

  Tim Berners-Lee believes data is the future of journalism. It might also be the future of the humanities. Reading (code) just became fundamental.

  by Patrick James

• Education

  Despite Possible Statistical Flaws, Should Teacher Names and Student Achievement Data Be Made Public?

  by Hillary Newman

• Education

  

  How Value-added Teacher Data Is Like a Baseball Batting Average

  Neither is consistent from year-to-year, but they're among the best measures we've got for evaluating talent.

  by Nikhil Swaminathan

• News

  

  Understanding Iran's Complex Political System, Graphically

  If you're still trying to figure out what actually happened in Iran last week, this chart could be of some use. Via Buzzfeed.

  by Zach Frechette

• Lifestyle

  

  Self-Storage

  Data sharing is driving medical care, and we should all opt in.

  by Steven Leckart, Trevor Burks

• Design

  

  Complex Infinite Jest Infographic Maps Connections Among the Book's Many Characters

  Fans of design and David Foster Wallace should enjoy this Infinite Jest infographic, which maps the many connections among the books many characters.

  by Patrick James

• Culture

  

  Intermission: Meta Dog Fetches a Dog

  Watch a black lab fetch her deaf sister.

  by Wylie Overstreet

• Lifestyle

  

  Have We Made Lobster a Truly Sustainable Seafood?

  Although many reports about Gulf of Maine fish stocks-cod, haddock, cusk, flounder, and grey sole-are not optimistic, Ted Ames, a scientist and...

  by Peter Smith

• Lifestyle

  

  Warby Parker: A Truly Visionary Eyewear Company

  Warby Parker makes beautifully crafted eyeglasses in a number of classic styles and sells them (lenses included) for $95. While it would be...

  by Patrick James

• Business

  

  Global Economics Gets a Facelift With The Atlas of Economic Complexity

  An atlas unlike any you've ever seen.

  by Nina Lincoff