The Washington Post published a nice visualisation concerning the many, many deaths in Game of Thrones yesterday - apparently there have been 456 such violent extravaganzas. Coded by season, allegiance, importance of character, method of death and other such metadata it gives a nice refresh of the important parts of the storyline. Find out which location was deadliest, which … Continue reading Every death in the Game of Thrones – a visualisation
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Behind the scenes of the FiveThirtyEight UK general election forecasting model
Here in the UK we're about to go to the polls to elect some sort of government in just a few weeks. Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight team are naturally on the case in providing their famously accurate election forecasts. They were kind enough to explain again the methodology being used in this blog post by Ben Lauderdale. Go … Continue reading Behind the scenes of the FiveThirtyEight UK general election forecasting model
The most toxic place on Reddit
Reddit, the "front page of the internet" - and a network I hardly ever dare enter for fear of being sucked in to reading 100s of comments for hours on highly pointless yet entertaining things - has had its share of controversies over the years. The site is structurally divided up into "subreddits" , which … Continue reading The most toxic place on Reddit
Quantified-self products of the future – an exhibition
Dublin Science Gallery have got a very data-focused exhibition on until April 17th, on the sort-of hot topic of "lifelogging", that ever-increasing hobby of tracking not only one's Fitbit steps but most anything one can vaguely quantify about one's life. It sounds like one of the funnest parts of it might be Karl Toomey's "lifelogging products of the future" area. Here … Continue reading Quantified-self products of the future – an exhibition
Dabbling with Data 