Phases of the Moon, visually explained

Bartosz Ciechanowski used his style of interactive essay, with many sliders, graphics, and… Tags: Bartosz Ciechanowski, moon, space | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 29 days ago

✚ Recreation, Remixing, and Adaptation — Giving Credit in Data Visualization

Past and current charts influence future charts. Should you credit the past work? At what point does homage become plagiarism? If you're the original creator, are you pleased or annoyed? Tags: remix | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 29 days ago

Embroidered daily journaling

Those who keep a daily journal typically record with words, photos, and video.… Tags: embroidery, icons, journal, Sophie O'Neill | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Palisades fire, seen from above

Sentinel-2 satellite of the European Space Agency captured an image of the Palisades… Tags: Palisades, satellite imagery, wildfire | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Wind flow patterns over Los Angeles

Based on data from NOAA, the New York Times shows the direction and… Tags: New York Times, wildfire, wind | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Hot winds fueling the fires

The Washington Post illustrates how air flows from the Great Basin, over the… Tags: Los Angeles, Washington Post, wildfire, wind | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Map of active wildfires in California

This California wildfires map from Los Angeles Times shows an up-to-date status in… Tags: California, Los Angeles Times, wildfire | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Social media app preferences of young teenagers

Pew Research published their annual report on what social media U.S. 13- to… Tags: Pew Research, social media | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Make the Chart: Scaled Squares with Color Bands

Areas represent total counts and the colors indicate categories. Together, the symbols show the distributions in a population. Tags: Illustrator, R | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Drug overdose deaths seen in a generation

For NYT’s the Upshot, Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz, and Nick Thieme report on… Tags: Baltimore Banner, Big Local News, drugs, generations, overdose, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

January 6 defendants, a breakdown

1,580 people were charged with federal crimes for the riot at the U.S.… Tags: conviction, riots, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Tracking the effects of Congestion Pricing in New York

In an effort to reduce traffic, New York launched a program that charges… Tags: congestion, New York, tolls, traffic | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Where and when to travel

Bloomberg put together a list of places to visit in 2025. Most of… Tags: Bloomberg, prices, travel | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Star Wars galaxy map

I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this Star Wars map, but I… Tags: fiction, Star Wars | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Convergence to sameness in the algorithm

As my father-in-law’s Facebook feed would suggest, the “algorithm” has a way of… Tags: algorithm, creation, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

2024.

I haven’t reviewed a year on FlowingData since 2020, which seems like a… Tags: annual review | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024

Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024. Tags: best-of | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Seeing the single largest tree in the forest of 400 billion

Fabien Wagner works with CTrees in an effort to map tree canopy height… Tags: CTrees, Fabien Wagner, rainforest, tree | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Home insurance companies dropping customers

Because of a warming planet with more wildfires and hurricanes, it’s growing more… Tags: climate, insurance, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Year of tornadoes

For the New York Times, Marco Hernandez visualized all the tornadoes in 2024,… Tags: New York Times, tornado | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

More time on the plane, but more flights arriving early

By just about every metric, flights are slower now than they were 30… Tags: airlines, schedule, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

When cities last saw snow on Christmas

Christmas is coming. For some, that means snow on the ground, but as… Tags: Bloomberg, Christmas, climate, snow | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Data Advent Calendar

Jordan Cunliffe uses embroidery to explore and visualize data. This year, headed towards… Tags: Advent, embroidery, Jordan Cunliffe | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Counting the Christmas days with snow

This is a fun one by Dylan Moriarty for the Washington Post. Punch… Tags: Christmas, snow, Washington Post, weather | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Map of walkable neighborhoods

Researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome estimated the time it takes… Tags: city, local, walking | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, December 2024 Roundup

Here’s the good stuff for the month: things to use, things to poke at, and things to learn from. Tags: roundup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Probability does not exist

Probability itself is an expression of uncertainty, but the calculations behind the percentages… Tags: David Spiegelhalter, probability, uncertainty | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Elon Musk’s posting (and sleep) schedule

Not to dwell on Musk, but I was reminded of this dot plot… Tags: Economist, Elon Musk, Twitter | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Online reach of Elon Musk on X

As you can imagine, Elon Musk, the owner of X, has a prominent… Tags: Elon Musk, social media, Washington Post, X | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Network of Supermarket Chains

Here's the current landscape of supermarket parent companies and their subsidiaries — national chains, regional, local, co-ops, specialty, ethnic, and discount. Tags: chains, grocery | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Multiplication mistake leads to exaggerated plastic cautions

There was a brouhaha a couple months ago over research that suggested black… Tags: baseline, plastic, research | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Military location data that anyone can buy legally

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and… Tags: location, military, privacy, Wired | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

More milk, fewer cows

For Works in Progress, Jared Hutchins explains how milk production increased per cow,… Tags: cows, milk, Works in Progress | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Exploring Empty Spaces

Usually we focus on actual data points for insights, but we can also highlight the spaces between for a flipped point of view. Tags: missing data | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

How mpox virus spreads

For Reuters, Arathy J Aluckal, Jitesh Chowdhury, and Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa illustrate how… Tags: mpox, Reuters, virus | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” spreads to earlier months

For NBC News, Joe Murphy shows the play rate on Last.fm for Mariah… Tags: Christmas, Mariah Carey, NBC News, song | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Where Health Insurance Comes From in the United States

About half of people have private health insurance through an employer. However, the other half get their insurance from elsewhere or through a combination of sources. Tags: healthcare, insurance | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Words that do not appear in literature

Word clouds show key terms or phrases that appear in a body of… Tags: literature, Martin Wattenberg | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Sitting vs. standing jobs

Some jobs require a lot of standing, crouching, and climbing, whereas other jobs… Tags: Alvin Chang, Pudding, sitting, standing, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Chinese names lost in translation

Liuhuaying Yang aims to clarify the names and sounds that get lost when… Tags: Chinese, language, Liuhuaying Yang, names | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Tsunami alert, because earthquake off coast of Northern California

The folks up here received one of those loud emergency alerts a few… Tags: alert, earthquake, USGS | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

✚ Claude Review: Experimenting with an AI Assistant in the Visualization Workflow

I check out Claude, a generative AI assistant to see if, how, and when such a tool could fit into an analysis and visualization workflow. Tags: AI, Claude, generative | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

When internet cables break under the sea

The network that connects the world still relies on surprisingly thin wires that… Tags: Internet, New York Times, repair | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Your name shaped under a trend line

Add another graphic to the baby name genre of visualization. Karim Douïeb put… Tags: Karim Douïeb, names, text | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Macy’s lost track of $154m in expenses because of poor metrics

For Bloomberg, Jeannette Neumann describes the accounting error: For years, Macy’s Inc. touted… Tags: Bloomberg, Macy's, money | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Higher margins with fewer hospital staff, not the best mix

Many hospitals in the United States are for-profit, which itself is not a… Tags: Bloomberg, hospital, medicine | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

China jumps to car exports leader in just a few years

China exported next to zero vehicles in 2010, but from 2020 to 2024,… Tags: China, export, New York Times, vehicles | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Gifting FlowingData

Is there a better gift than the gift of knowledge? No, there is… | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago