The Bureau of Labor Statistics released monthly jobs data, but after the firing…Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, New York Times, uncertainty | Continue reading
Jon Keegan of Beautiful Public Data highlights researchers who used lidar to estimate…Tags: Beautiful Public Data, Lidar, Los Angeles, wildfire | Continue reading
For NYT’s the Upshot, Ethan Singer found the birth of pickleball courts in…Tags: courts, Ethan Singer, photography, pickleball, Upshot | Continue reading
This week is about helping people see data for what it is and avoiding poor choices.Tags: audience, context | Continue reading
NYPD arrested the wrong man, because facial recognition marked a match. Maria Cramer…Tags: ethics, facial recognition, New York Times, police, privacy | Continue reading
The New York Times estimated political bias in Grok’s models. They entered questions…Tags: bias, chatbot, Elon Musk, Grok, New York Times | Continue reading
A Tesla Model S, while on “Autopilot”, crashed into a parked truck, killing…Tags: crash, hacking, Tesla, Washington Post | Continue reading
Pew Research asked U.S. adults if certain behaviors in public, such as cursing…Tags: age, behavior, Pew Research, rude | Continue reading
Gordon Hart put together a fun interactive atlas of space. Click on objects,… Tags: atlas, Gordon Hart, space | Continue reading
TSA PreCheck allows U.S. travelers to skip the part of airport security where…Tags: flying, security, TSA, Upshot | Continue reading
The U.S. federal government does not release official numbers for the cuts to…Tags: firing, government, health, ProPublica | Continue reading
For WaPo’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam goes looking for American and…Tags: Department of Data, geography, words | Continue reading
Here are tools to use, datasets to poke at, and resources to learn from.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
For Wired, Lauren Goode spent a day vibe-coding at Notion: The next assignment…Tags: vibe-code, Wired | Continue reading
New to me, someone anonymously scraped and published the Spotify playlists of a…Tags: music, privacy, Spotify | Continue reading
Will Smith posted a video showing highlights from his tour, but parts of…Tags: Andy Baio, video, Will Smith | Continue reading
For the Washington Post, Kasha Patel and Naema Ahmed mapped the change in… Tags: climate change, summer, temperature, Washington Post | Continue reading
Speaking of the Correct the Map campaign, Miguel García Álvarez reminds that there… Tags: Mercator, Miguel García Álvarez, projections | Continue reading
For Reuters, Catarina Demony and Ayendeng Bior report on the African Union’s push… Tags: Africa, Mercator, Reuters | Continue reading
Soloham is a yo-yo style where there are two yo-yos off the string.… Tags: Hajime Miura, yo-yo | Continue reading
Adam Bonica analyzed the age of donors across different groups and politicians. For… Tags: Adam Bonica, fundraising, politics, spam | Continue reading
This week we make a solid, straightforward chart more readable and focused. It’s about the small things. Tags: editing | Continue reading
PlanScore uses four measures to define partisan gerrymandering, and they’ve made the data… Tags: gerrymandering, PlanScore | Continue reading
For the Washington Post, Drew Harwell reports on the budding industry of AI-generated… Tags: business, slop, Washington Post | Continue reading
Hannah Recht is tracking data through the U.S. Census Bureau APIs: The Census… Tags: census, Hannah Recht, tracker | Continue reading
You probably have a rough idea of education levels for each audience, but… Tags: education, news, Pew Research | Continue reading
For the Pudding, Andrew Aquino, with Russell Samora and Jan Diehm, supplies interactive… Tags: cutting, math, onions, Pudding | Continue reading
We know that alcohol is not the healthiest beverage to consume. When abused,… Tags: alcohol, Kurzgesagt | Continue reading
Jeff Horwitz, for Reuters, tells the story of 76-year-old Thongbue Wongbandue, who grew… Tags: chatbot, Meta, Reuters | Continue reading
AI companies like to say that they are close to or reached a… Tags: Claus Wilke, PhD | Continue reading
Because no one is perfect, even those striving for PhD-level intelligence. Tags: error, OpenAI | Continue reading
Wplace uses a world map as a canvas. Zoom in to where you… Tags: cooperative, paint, pixels | Continue reading
In what now seems like a tale as old as time, a man… Tags: chatbot, ChatGPT, error, New York Times | Continue reading
The seven-year itch suggests that people grow dissatisfied with marriage and long-term relationships… Tags: divorce, marriage | Continue reading
Molly Smith reports for Bloomberg on the appointing of EJ Antoni to head… Tags: Bloomberg, Bureau of Labor Statistics, EJ Antoni, government | Continue reading
Many are discovering that the Bureau of Labor Statistics updates past estimates, but… Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, economy, estimation | Continue reading
The stores use Flock cameras to collect license plate data from cars entering… Tags: 404 Media, camera, Flock, Home Depot, Lowe's, privacy | Continue reading
During the DOGE-fueled federal firings, which seems like a lifetime ago already, the… Tags: CNN, DOGE, National Weather Service, takedown | Continue reading
OpenAI introduced GPT-5 in a livestream, and they used a set of seemingly… Tags: labels, OpenAI | Continue reading
Hansi Lo Wang reporting for NPR: The 14th Amendment requires the “whole number… Tags: census, counting, government, NPR | Continue reading
Matt Seaton, for the Atlantic, reports on how the statistical approach impacted cycling… Tags: Atlantic, cycling, sports, Tour de France | Continue reading
Staying within chart defaults might provide an advantage. Tags: familiar | Continue reading
Reuters highlights unsafe temperatures in prison cells, using building models, public records, and… Tags: prison, Reuters, temperature | Continue reading
It’s exciting when an animal escapes from the zoo. A monkey breaks free… Tags: animals, Washington Post, zoo | Continue reading
Drew Harwell, reporting for the Washington Post: Artificial intelligence tools are not just… Tags: generative, obituary, writing | Continue reading
N. Gregory Mankiw and Cecilia Rouse, both former chairs of the Council of… Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, firing, Washington Post | Continue reading
For the New York Times, Steven Strogatz explains taxicab geometry through the lens… Tags: geometry, New York Times, taxi | Continue reading
The problem with two-dimensional map projections is distortion creeps in no matter what… Tags: globe, humor, projections, xkcd | Continue reading