Usually we focus on actual data points for insights, but we can also highlight the spaces between for a flipped point of view.
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Exploring Empty Spaces
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Using gaps in location data to track illegal fishing
Speaking of non-location in the seas, researchers at the University of California at…
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Untraced orphans in Ukraine since the war
Sarah Slobin and Joanna Plucinska, for Reuters, report on the challenges of counting…
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Looking at What’s Not There – The Process 140
Data is always incomplete.
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People who answer “don’t know” to obvious questions
In survey data, there is usually an open-ended category for “not applicable” or…
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When bad data leads to a disappearing neighborhood
Caitlin Dewey for OneZero describes the case of the Fruit Belt neighborhood in…
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Visualizing Incomplete and Missing Data
We love complete and nicely formatted data. That’s not what we get a lot of the time.
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When data is not quite what it seems
FiveThirtyEight used a dataset on broadband as the basis for a couple of…
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Flawed hate crime data collection
Data can provide you with important information, but when the collection process is…
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Showing missing data in line charts
Missing data is everywhere. Or, I guess technically it’s nowhere. You know what…
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CSV Fingerprint: Spot errors in your data at a glance
You get your CSV file, snuggle under your blanket with a glass of…
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