Example Data Analysis for Discussion

Entertainment

• John Goodman Is America’s Greatest Supporting Actor
• The average color of every frame of a given movie, compressed into a single picture.
• TV finales that surprise/disappoint
• Popular Buzzfeed Clickbait Titles
• A Data Analysis of Board Game Rankings

Sports

• One Race, Every Medalist Ever. Video comparison of every 100 meter dash medalist since the 1896 Olympics.
• College Football Player Hometowns
• Every Shot Kobe Bryant Ever Made

History

• Plot millions of journal entries from 18th and 19th century ship logs, and you reveal a picture of ocean trade you’ve never seen before.
• 30 Most Edited Wikipedia Pages

Health

• Heart rate (bpm) during marriage proposal
• Animated Fertility Rates Over Time
• Bed Net Rates in Africa
• My Path to Sobriety
• Showering Rates

Transportation

• Animated Map of Ocean Shipping
• Plane Finder

Finance

• Emergency Bank Loans During Bailout
• Panama Papers
• Where the U.S. gets its oil from

Politics

• FiveThirtyEight Election Forecast
• Donald Trump is wrong that ‘inner-city crime is reaching record levels’ (9/1/16)
• Brexit Vote
• Republican vs. Democrat Occupations
• 100 Years of Presidential Elections
• Elections by region
• Rise of Partisanship

Society

• Ashley Madison
• Average Reddit Score vs. Number of Words
• Gender Breakdown of Jobs

Food

• Skittle Color Distribution

Science

• Radiation Levels
• Black Hole Sizes
• Live Earthquakes Map
• Who is Pirating Scientific Papers

Climate Change

• Changing opinions on climate change, from a CNN meteorologist

Misleading Charts

• That Map from The Washington Post About Female/Male Ratios Is Way Off. Here’s a New One…
• The most misleading charts of 2015, fixed