Raw Data Studies

Raw Data Studies

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  • Dog years, human years and DNA

    Dog years, human years and DNA

    A recent paper used DNA matching to support using a log function for dog-age to human-age conversions, but I’m not so sure the data supports it.

    February 25, 2021
  • Bar-mekko water use chart

    Bar-mekko water use chart

    Remaking a puzzling bar-mekko chart in several forms. When width and height both encode data values, so must area.

    February 11, 2021
  • Insurance pricing oddity

    Insurance pricing oddity

    A deeper dive into 93,000 insurance customer rate changes shared an analysis by The Markup. Making sense of suspicious residuals.

    February 2, 2021
  • Relationship chord diagram study

    Relationship chord diagram study

    I’ve never found chord diagrams very valuable, but I’m eager to learn where they are useful. Maybe I just need the right data.

    January 23, 2021
  • Crossword solving times

    Crossword solving times

    I’ve been doing crossword puzzles on my iPad over breakfast (usually oatmeal) for the past few years. Here are some views of the varying daily difficulties of New York Times crosswords.

    January 19, 2021
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Raw Data Studies

by Xan Gregg

 

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