✚ Visualizing Differences Between Two Points in Time

This week is about highlighting changes in data visually to make them glaringly obvious. Tags: difference | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 hours ago

Instead of lying with data, just delete it altogether

Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell, for Washington Post Opinion, highlight the current strategies… Tags: government, takedown, transparency, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 hours ago

Clocking out of work earlier

According to data from ActivTrak, people are shortening their work days with higher… Tags: Bloomberg, time, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 14 hours ago

Fewer honking complaints after congestion pricing

This might come as a surprise to some, but since congestion pricing in… Tags: complaints, congestion, honking, The City | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 day ago

Everyday life changes after Covid

In almost every dataset about life and people that stretches back past March… Tags: Covid, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 days ago

Political typology quiz

From Pew Research, this political typology quiz is from four years ago but… Tags: Pew Research, politics, quiz | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 days ago

Belonging, in middle school

Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, highlights education research on the awkwardness of middle… Tags: Alvin Chang, belonging, education, Pudding, students | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 3 days ago

Access FiveThirtyEight resources while they’re still around

Last week, Disney laid off FiveThirtyEight employees and announced the site would cease… Tags: data journalism, FiveThirtyEight, teaching | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 3 days ago

Charted history of the baby boom

For Our World in Data, Saloni Dattani and Lucas Rodés-Guirao analyzed the various… Tags: baby boomer, birth rate, Our World in Data | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 days ago

✚ Smell Test for Data

The first part of visualizing data usefully is making sure the data you're working with is not terrible. Tags: expectations, formatting, missing data, outlier | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

$38b of government money that funded Musk companies

Elon Musk has been critical of government spending, as he and DOGE fire… Tags: Elon Musk, government, spending, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

Frozen government money pipe

Planet Money explains the Daily Treasury Statement from the U.S. Treasury. The data… Tags: government, Planet Money, spending, transparency, treasury | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

Nate Silver on Disney’s 538

Nate Silver writes a few thoughts on the closing of FiveThirtyEight: For more… Tags: data journalism, Disney, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

FiveThirtyEight is shutting down completely

Disney is cutting news jobs, and FiveThirtyEight, which was absorbed by ABC News… Tags: data journalism, FiveThirtyEight | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 8 days ago

Mathematician on creativity and optimization

For The New York Times, Siobhan Roberts talked to mathematician and Fields Medal… Tags: Alessio Figalli, creativity, New York Times, optimization | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 8 days ago

Optimizing basketball, too much

For Bloomberg, Ira Boudway reports on NBA basketball going too far with the… Tags: basketball, Bloomberg, optimization, sports | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 8 days ago

Ambiguity in what counts as American-made vehicles

Speaking of imported vehicle parts, June Kim and Neal Boudette, for The New… Tags: New York Times, tariff, vehicles | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 8 days ago

Imported parts on a Chevrolet Silverado

To demonstrate how tariffs can impact American products, Financial Times focuses on the… Tags: Financial Times, manufacturing, tariff, truck | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 9 days ago

Survey answers and framing the question

When you see surveys that supposedly ask the same question, you might wonder… Tags: New York Times, question, surveying, tariff | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 9 days ago

Products affected by tariffs in the U.S.

Luis Melgar and Rachel Lerman, for the Washington Post, highlight the value of… Tags: spending, tariff, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 9 days ago

Imports that could be taxed

We’ve mostly heard about tariffs as they apply further down the supply chain… Tags: Reuters, tariff, trading | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 9 days ago

House colors as an indicator for gentrification

It appears that gray and neutral tones on houses are a sign of… Tags: color, gentrification, paint, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 10 days ago

Reality of organ transplant waiting lists

One might hope that people on a waiting list for an organ transplant… Tags: healthcare, New York Times, organ transplant, queuing | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 10 days ago

Network of statistical distributions

The network of 76 probability distributions show how they are connected: Solid lines… Tags: distributions | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 days ago

USDA sued for removing climate data

Farming and environmental groups are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture for removing… Tags: climate, government, takedown, USDA | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 days ago

✚ Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources — February 2025 Roundup

Here are tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from that bubbled up in February. Tags: roundup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 14 days ago

Wikipedia as a walkable, virtual museum

Imagine everything on Wikipedia in an infinite museum of galleries. That’s what Maya… Tags: game, Maya Claire, museum, VR, Wikipedia | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 14 days ago

Disconnect between generated and real beauty expectations

Generative AI is readily accessible these days, which has led to an influx… Tags: beauty, style, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 14 days ago

Visualizing all the books in the world

To show a catalog of almost 100 million books in one view, phiresky… Tags: books, catalog, phiresky | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 15 days ago

Rail transit and population density

In some cities, a large percentage of the population has access to public… Tags: population, transit | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 15 days ago

Perceptron algorithm from the 1950s and its ties to LLMs

Welch Labs explains how the perceptron, an algorithm developed by Frank Rosenblatt in… Tags: ChatGPT, Frank Rosenblatt, perceptron, Welch Labs | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

Estimating the ‘laziness’ of federal workers

Some might have you believe that federal employees don’t put in the work.… Tags: effort, federal, Washington Post, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

Growing gender gap in ideology

For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch shows the gap between men and women in… Tags: Financial Times, gender, politics | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 17 days ago

Shifts in German election

German voters shifted away from the left in their general election this past… Tags: election, Germany, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 17 days ago

Natural System of Colours, a recreation of 18th century color wheels

In 1766, Moses Harris published The Natural System of Colours to demonstrate that… Tags: color, Moses Harris, Nicholas Rougeux, recreation | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 17 days ago

Government revenue and spending

In case you’re wondering about government spending and budgets, USAFacts has a Sankey… Tags: government, revenue, spending, USAFacts | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 days ago

✚ Making of Defense Against Dishonest Charts

I published an interactive guide on reading charts, spotting the misleading ones, and visualizing data honestly. Here's the process I used to get there. Tags: behind the scenes, defense | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 21 days ago

Ubiquity of the Gorton font

Marcin Wichary dives deep into the Gorton font, calling it the hardest working… Tags: Gorton, Marcin Wichary, typography | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 21 days ago

Gulf of wherever you want

Most of the major map providers changed the name. MapQuest had a different… Tags: Gulf of Mexico, MapQuest | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 22 days ago

How tariffs work

I think I’ve read about tariffs more in the past month than I… Tags: New York Times, tariff | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 22 days ago

$8 billion was actually $8 million in DOGE mistake

The DOGE site has a “wall of receipts” that claims $55 billion in… Tags: DOGE, funding, government, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 22 days ago

✚ Heatmaps and Defining Color Scales

With color as the visual encoding, choose the scales that allow you to see actual patterns. Tags: color, R | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 22 days ago

Charting data that might disappear soon

The administration continues its takedown of data that it doesn’t agree with. To… Tags: government, takedown, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 23 days ago

150-year-olds probably not receiving Social Security benefits

The Department of Government Efficiency claims data in the Social Security Administration database… Tags: government, Social Security Administration, spending, Wired | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 23 days ago

A life documented in weeks

Coming up on 50 years old, Gina Trapani mapped out her life so… Tags: Gina Trapani, journal, life, weeks | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 24 days ago

Open letter from former Census Bureau director

Robert Santos, who resigned last month, wrote a heartfelt open letter to Census… Tags: Census Bureau, government, Robert Santos | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 24 days ago

DOGE wants access to IRS taxpayer data

For the Washington Post, Jacob Bogage and Jeff Stein report: Under pressure from… Tags: DOGE, government, IRS | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 24 days ago

Rise and fall and rise again for bitcoin

There was a moment a few years ago when cryptocurrency was mentioned everywhere… Tags: Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, Financial Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 27 days ago