Normally there is a steady flow of ships through the strait, but when…Tags: ships, war, Zeit | Continue reading
With hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian drone flights every month, countries have had…Tags: drone, Financial Times, Ukraine, war | Continue reading
In celebration of the lunar new year, many people release a lantern into…Tags: lantern, Lunar New Year, Taiwan Data Stories | Continue reading
For Businessweek, Cecilia D’Anastasio, Olivia Solon, and Leon Yin analyzed the unusual luck…Tags: Bloomberg, cryptocurrency, gambling, luck, Stake | Continue reading
Imagine points for each piece on a chessboard. They move to x-y positions…Tags: chess, Santiago Ortiz | Continue reading
Isotype, or International System of Typographic Picture Education, is a picture language used…Tags: Isotype, RJ Andrews | Continue reading
The folks who made Dark Sky, my once go-to weather app that was…Tags: forecast, uncertainty, weather | Continue reading
Here is what happened in February.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Mechanical Pencil is a project by Bryan Macomber that illustrates the mechanical bits…Tags: Bryan Macomber, engineering, illustration, mechanical | Continue reading
The challenges continue for women who want clothes that fit properly. For the…Tags: clothes, Pudding, size, women | Continue reading
LLMs are based on data and text collected from the internets, so as…Tags: bias, ChatGPT, geography, Washington Post | Continue reading
People are usually not great at remembering exact colors. Dialed is a fun…Tags: color, game | Continue reading
Using an analysis from Focaldata, the Guardian used the angled arrow approach to…Tags: China, Guardian, United Nations | Continue reading
Focaldata calculated United Nations voting patterns by country, relative to the United States…Tags: China, Focaldata, politics, United Nations, United States, world | Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the administration’s “emergency” tariffs to be illegal. This…Tags: law, New York Times, Supreme Court, tariff | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Krishna Karra and Stephen Wicary map blackouts in Cuba due to…Tags: Bloomberg, Cuba, electricity, light, satellite imagery | Continue reading
ProPublica and the Texas Tribune report on the spike of claims over the…Tags: deportation, habeas petition, ProPublica, Texas Tribune, tracker | Continue reading
Paul Ford, for NYT Opinion, on his outlook for making software by vibe…Tags: code, New York Times, Paul Ford, technology, vibe-code | Continue reading
Over the decades, we can see the shifts (and non-shifts) in professional priorities and interests by looking at what college students are studying.Tags: degrees, education | Continue reading
This week is about how we rank from best to worst and use visualization to highlight order.Tags: rank, sorting | Continue reading
For Reuters, Ally J. Levine and Tiana McGee illustrate and chart the rise:…Tags: Bad Bunny, music, Reuters | Continue reading
With the most recent Epstein release, the Economist collaborated with the folks who…Tags: Economist, email, Jeffrey Epstein, Large Language Model | Continue reading
Meta’s smart glasses have an outward facing camera pointed at what you’re looking…Tags: facial recognition, glasses, Meta, privacy | Continue reading
The Amazon-owned security system Ring was planning to partner with Flock Safety, who…Tags: Flock, privacy, Ring, surveillance | Continue reading
xkcd drops the knowledge with a proper classification for the stapler. The pairwise…Tags: dinosaurs, humor, xkcd | Continue reading
During the Super Bowl, Ring ran a commercial that shows how everyone’s doorbell…Tags: 404 Media, privacy, Ring, surveillance | Continue reading
This week is about visual echos. Tags: compositing, traces | Continue reading
ProPublica updated their explorer for money flowing into 527s. Every year, hundreds of…Tags: contributions, elections, politics, ProPublica | Continue reading
In the women’s downhill, Breezy Johnson won gold with a time of 1…Tags: Breezy Johnson, compositing, New York Times, Olympics, skiing | Continue reading
Science analyzed employment data from the Office of Personnel Management to calculate the…Tags: government, layoffs, PhD, Science Journal | Continue reading
Theo Sanderson visualized the network of 3.4 million Bluesky users, placed by follow…Tags: Bluesky, Theo Sanderson | Continue reading
Olympic figure skater Ilia Malinin earned the nickname “Quad God” for all his…Tags: ice skating, Ilia Malinin, New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye are studying how work loads are shifting…Tags: focus, Harvard Business Review, work | Continue reading
While it’s easy to go out for a run in most places, finding…Tags: Olympics, Washington Post | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Shawn Donnan runs the numbers and discusses how this might affect…Tags: Bloomberg, migration, population | Continue reading
Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety is on the New York Times to explain…Tags: New York Times, Olympics, skiing, uncertainty | Continue reading
More processing power requires more data centers, and for better or worse, they…Tags: data center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Continue reading
Researchers published a paper in Science on the growing threat of AI swarms…Tags: disinformation, ethics, fake, Wired | Continue reading
ASCII art is text-based art that uses printable characters instead of pixels. Alex…Tags: Alex Harri, Ascii, explainer | Continue reading
This week we highlight visual metaphors and use charts to have an informal chat.Tags: communication, conversation | Continue reading
The administration continues to add expenses for the country and insist tariff revenues…Tags: Cato Institute, revenue, tariff, Washington Post | Continue reading
One year into these tariffs, Ana Swanson for the New York Times has…Tags: cost, New York Times, tariff | Continue reading
Ben Casselman reporting for the New York Times: The Bureau of Labor Statistics…Tags: delay, government, New York Times, shutdown | Continue reading
The next version of Firefox will have controls to turn off AI features.…Tags: browser, Firefox | Continue reading
In January, the scale for U.S. healthcare subsidies changed, which reintroduced a cliff.…Tags: government, healthcare, insurance, Upshot | Continue reading
Under the supposed premise of saving money, the administration proposes that US postal…Tags: Census Bureau, collection, counting, NPR, USPS | Continue reading
In January, the scale for U.S. healthcare subsidies changed, which reintroduced a cliff.…Tags: government, healthcare, insurance, Upshot | Continue reading
Speaking of SimCity, Isometric NYC by Andy Coenen is part curiosity and part…Tags: Andy Coenen, city, isometric | Continue reading