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Word clouds cause death… or something
Jacob Harris, a New York Times senior software architect, rants about how people like to use word clouds to tell stories: Of course, the biggest problem with word clouds is that they are often applied...
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Your street name across the country
Here’s a fun searchable map from the New York Times. Enter a street’s name, and you can see how many other streets have the same name in other states. Based on Zillow data, you also get a quick...
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Word cloud + Streamgraph = WordStream
I hear it all the time from chart purists. “I love the streamgraph!” and “Word clouds are the best!” and “I wish there was an easy way to combine a streamgraph and word cloud to see textual changes...
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Words used in layoff letters
Tech layoffs continue, and as companies deliver more letters, there are some repeated topics. For The Washington Post, Hamza Shaban, Luis Melgar, and Leslie Shapiro parsed out the patterns: The Post...
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