Data Will Help Us is a brief manifesto about the promise and perils of data, commissioned by The New York Times. “Big Data” has become a kind of ubiquitous modern salve that now gets applied to almost any kind of ailment. In fields ranging from education, to government, to healthcare, to advertising, to dating, to science, to war, we’re abandoning ti...

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This video compares Usain Bolt, current world record holder in the men’s 100 metres, with medallists in the race from 116 years of Olympic Games. This visualisation compares the podium scores in this race over the course of all the Games, creating an enormous track that brings them all together. The video shows where each runner would be when Bolt finishe...

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The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene performs unannounced sanitary inspections of every restaurant at least once per year. Violation points result in a letter grade, which can be explored in the map below, along with violation descriptions. The information on this map will be updated every two weeks. For menus and reviews by New York T...

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