This is another beautiful infographic from the New York Times that allows the user to interact with data from the 2010 U.S. Census.
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map
You can explore changes in population, density, distribution, and housing by looking at states and counties across the country.
This is a beautiful and interesting video that explores the construction of a hyperdodecahedron.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFXRRW9goTs
A hyperdodecahedron is like a four-dimensional version of the dodecahedron. It is also known as a 120-cell, as it is composed of 120 dodecahedrons. It has 720 pentagonal faces, 1200 edges, and 600 vertices.
“Beautiful Weather Graphs and Maps” are promised by WeatherSpark, and they deliver.
You can get local forecasts that show a number of projections bounded by highs and lows, or you can look at daily, monthly, or yearly trends that aggregate historical data.
In another section, a variety of interactive maps allow you to look at geographic trends in temperature, wind, humidity, and many other factors.
You can even look at long-term global temperature data!
A lot of information and representation to interact with and explore here.
Here’s another nice collection of free e-books on a wide range of topics.
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/
The site has over 5,000 free e-books in subjects from Art, Computer Science, and Engineering. And the selections currently include about one thousand math e-books!
This is a cool collection of data analysis from Slate.com that uses scores from the movie review site RottenTomatoes.com to chart the careers of actors and directors.
http://www.slate.com/id/2296070/
In addition to comparing the average career trajectories of actors and directors (a curious result!) and provoking interesting questions like “Why does the average rating seem to be falling over time?”, Slate provides a great little toy to play with: the Hollywood Career-o-Matic.
Type the name of any actor or director into the Career-o-Matic and see a quantitative overview of that person’s film history graphed out in front of you! You can even type multiple names and compare graphs! Scrolls over the highs (and lows) to get film details.
A nice little data tool, and it’s easy to see some fun, informal data projects coming from this. And it looks like it all started with this brilliant critique of M. Night Shyamalan.