Tag: Data
We know that Russia is into Russian teen anal, but what about the States? Earlier last week, popular porn site Pornhub released user data chronicling some of the nation’s top porn search terms. Luckily, a Reddit user has organized all of this groundbreaking info by plugging it into a handy visual map, effectively letting all of us […]
The Principality of Sealand is a rusted oil-drilling platform, 13 miles off the coast of the United Kingdom. It declared itself an independent state in 1967, becoming a micronation. It’s not too comfortable to live on and it doesn’t have much of a government, but it still might be more trustworthy with your data than […]
Recently, the city released a massive bundle of data about every lot of property in the five boroughs. Naturally, an intrepid data visualizer has already implemented it into a series of beautiful, informative interactive maps. Andrew Hill created the PLUTO Data Tour, which uses the data to look at things like the tallest walk-up in […]
The Internet Archive, a massive online library with the goal of offering the public “permanent access” to historical digital media, has proven to be a great resource for artists and anyone else looking for obscure collections of video, music, and text. Everything from outdated car commercials to the Consumer Electronics Showcase of 1996 is available in the […]
Are you going to die? No worries. Not only is there a new Google service that manages your data when you’re dead, it cleverly seems to sidestep any actual mention of death. Rather, it says, “What happens to your account when you stop using it? Google puts you in control.” Your account will go into a “time-out” […]
Edmund Helmert, the creative mind behind BoxOfficeQuant, can be thought of as a kind of Nate Silver for the film industry–researching, plotting, and analyzing data about movies, with hopes to “report on the financial state of the industry and attempt to predict its future.” For his latest project, he used this beautiful circular histogram to […]
