As spring bursts at its seams to push winter out the door, warm your synapses with some of Data Dive...

1. 3D, safety spray for bikes, MLB data vizualizations and more
As spring bursts at its seams to push winter out the door, warm your synapses with some of Data
Dive's favorite reads from the past week.
In celebration of Major League Baseball's opening day, the Hardball Times dropped a great data
visualization-based 2015 season preview, while Facebook released its annual county-by-county map
of MLB fandom, based on users' "likes".
At The Conversation, Dianna Theadora Kenny, a Professor of Psychology and Music at the University
of Sydney crunches numbers in examining the death rates for musicians, parsed by genre, gender
and cause. Metal heads have more accidents, country musicians rarely get murdered, and the blues
are bad for your heart.
A really nice YouTube video from NASA Goddard opens the window to a week mlb the show 15 in the
life of rain, using radar in motion to show how storms sweep across the globe, and highlighting how
the administration's Global Precipitation Measurement mission tracks the precursors to hurricanes
and droughts.
With springtime bicycle safety in mind, take a look at Mashable's introduction to Volvo LifePaint, a
spray that appears clear in daylight, but reflectively illuminates at night, and is easy to wash off.
Finally, ice cubes are so 2014. At your next shindig, take Quartz's advice and use 3D subtraction to
create these wonderfully intricate ice sculptures for your drink offerings.