This week is about highlighting changes in data visually to make them glaringly obvious. Tags: difference | Continue reading
Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell, for Washington Post Opinion, highlight the current strategies… Tags: government, takedown, transparency, Washington Post | Continue reading
According to data from ActivTrak, people are shortening their work days with higher… Tags: Bloomberg, time, work | Continue reading
This might come as a surprise to some, but since congestion pricing in… Tags: complaints, congestion, honking, The City | Continue reading
In almost every dataset about life and people that stretches back past March… Tags: Covid, Upshot | Continue reading
From Pew Research, this political typology quiz is from four years ago but… Tags: Pew Research, politics, quiz | Continue reading
Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, highlights education research on the awkwardness of middle… Tags: Alvin Chang, belonging, education, Pudding, students | Continue reading
Last week, Disney laid off FiveThirtyEight employees and announced the site would cease… Tags: data journalism, FiveThirtyEight, teaching | Continue reading
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
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
Elon Musk has been critical of government spending, as he and DOGE fire… Tags: Elon Musk, government, spending, Washington Post | Continue reading
Planet Money explains the Daily Treasury Statement from the U.S. Treasury. The data… Tags: government, Planet Money, spending, transparency, treasury | Continue reading
Nate Silver writes a few thoughts on the closing of FiveThirtyEight: For more… Tags: data journalism, Disney, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver | Continue reading
Disney is cutting news jobs, and FiveThirtyEight, which was absorbed by ABC News… Tags: data journalism, FiveThirtyEight | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Siobhan Roberts talked to mathematician and Fields Medal… Tags: Alessio Figalli, creativity, New York Times, optimization | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Ira Boudway reports on NBA basketball going too far with the… Tags: basketball, Bloomberg, optimization, sports | Continue reading
Speaking of imported vehicle parts, June Kim and Neal Boudette, for The New… Tags: New York Times, tariff, vehicles | Continue reading
To demonstrate how tariffs can impact American products, Financial Times focuses on the… Tags: Financial Times, manufacturing, tariff, truck | Continue reading
When you see surveys that supposedly ask the same question, you might wonder… Tags: New York Times, question, surveying, tariff | Continue reading
Luis Melgar and Rachel Lerman, for the Washington Post, highlight the value of… Tags: spending, tariff, Washington Post | Continue reading
We’ve mostly heard about tariffs as they apply further down the supply chain… Tags: Reuters, tariff, trading | Continue reading
It appears that gray and neutral tones on houses are a sign of… Tags: color, gentrification, paint, Washington Post | Continue reading
One might hope that people on a waiting list for an organ transplant… Tags: healthcare, New York Times, organ transplant, queuing | Continue reading
The network of 76 probability distributions show how they are connected: Solid lines… Tags: distributions | Continue reading
Farming and environmental groups are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture for removing… Tags: climate, government, takedown, USDA | Continue reading
Here are tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from that bubbled up in February. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Imagine everything on Wikipedia in an infinite museum of galleries. That’s what Maya… Tags: game, Maya Claire, museum, VR, Wikipedia | Continue reading
Generative AI is readily accessible these days, which has led to an influx… Tags: beauty, style, Washington Post | Continue reading
To show a catalog of almost 100 million books in one view, phiresky… Tags: books, catalog, phiresky | Continue reading
In some cities, a large percentage of the population has access to public… Tags: population, transit | Continue reading
Welch Labs explains how the perceptron, an algorithm developed by Frank Rosenblatt in… Tags: ChatGPT, Frank Rosenblatt, perceptron, Welch Labs | Continue reading
Some might have you believe that federal employees don’t put in the work.… Tags: effort, federal, Washington Post, work | Continue reading
For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch shows the gap between men and women in… Tags: Financial Times, gender, politics | Continue reading
German voters shifted away from the left in their general election this past… Tags: election, Germany, New York Times | Continue reading
In 1766, Moses Harris published The Natural System of Colours to demonstrate that… Tags: color, Moses Harris, Nicholas Rougeux, recreation | Continue reading
In case you’re wondering about government spending and budgets, USAFacts has a Sankey… Tags: government, revenue, spending, USAFacts | Continue reading
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
Marcin Wichary dives deep into the Gorton font, calling it the hardest working… Tags: Gorton, Marcin Wichary, typography | Continue reading
Most of the major map providers changed the name. MapQuest had a different… Tags: Gulf of Mexico, MapQuest | Continue reading
I think I’ve read about tariffs more in the past month than I… Tags: New York Times, tariff | Continue reading
The DOGE site has a “wall of receipts” that claims $55 billion in… Tags: DOGE, funding, government, Upshot | Continue reading
With color as the visual encoding, choose the scales that allow you to see actual patterns. Tags: color, R | Continue reading
The administration continues its takedown of data that it doesn’t agree with. To… Tags: government, takedown, Washington Post | Continue reading
The Department of Government Efficiency claims data in the Social Security Administration database… Tags: government, Social Security Administration, spending, Wired | Continue reading
Coming up on 50 years old, Gina Trapani mapped out her life so… Tags: Gina Trapani, journal, life, weeks | Continue reading
Robert Santos, who resigned last month, wrote a heartfelt open letter to Census… Tags: Census Bureau, government, Robert Santos | Continue reading
For the Washington Post, Jacob Bogage and Jeff Stein report: Under pressure from… Tags: DOGE, government, IRS | Continue reading
There was a moment a few years ago when cryptocurrency was mentioned everywhere… Tags: Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, Financial Times | Continue reading