Well this is awesome. The New York Times highlighted four olympians with a…Tags: New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading
You know those graphics that use icons of people to represent units or…Tags: font, icons, people | Continue reading
After living expenses, where does the money go, and how does it change when you have more cash available?Tags: spending | Continue reading
Well this is awesome. The Winter Olympics start this Friday, and The New…Tags: augmented reality, New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading
Professional tennis player Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title recently. He’s…Tags: Roger Federer, sports, tennis | Continue reading
The Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem says that if you have two polygons of equal area,…Tags: geometry, theorem | Continue reading
Odds are if you’re reading this, you know what statistics is already, but…Tags: learning, video | Continue reading
FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…Tags: FiveThirtyEight, gerrymandering, government | Continue reading
Musician Kaki King’s daughter suffers from a condition (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) where her…Tags: Giorgia Lupi, health, human, Kaki King | Continue reading
Also known as waffle charts. Using animated transitions between values, you can allow for comparisons between categories.Tags: d3js | Continue reading
Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…Tags: military, privacy, Strava | Continue reading
We love complete and nicely formatted data. That's not what we get a lot of the time.Tags: missing data | Continue reading
This fake follower piece by Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris, and…Tags: bot, fake, Twitter | Continue reading
Inspired by Dear Data, the data drawing pen pal project, designers Josefina Bravo,…Tags: illustration, postcards | Continue reading
Evie Liu and William Davis, reporting MarketWatch, looked at release strategies of Oscar…Tags: movies, Oscars | Continue reading
Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, for The New York Times, answer the question…Tags: democracy, New York Times | Continue reading
Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…Tags: NASA, population | Continue reading
I think we can all benefit from knowing a little more about others…Tags: demographics | Continue reading
According to NASA estimates, 2017 was the second warmest year on record since…Tags: environment, global warming, New York Times | Continue reading
New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation: The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is…Tags: Wikipedia | Continue reading
From ABC News, this is a clever comparison between people’s worst fears and…Tags: fear | Continue reading
This is a fun ditty by Vasco Asturiano. I’m a little too far…Tags: music | Continue reading
Back to more important topics, amirite?Tags: Back to the Future, movie | Continue reading
From The Malaria Atlas Project, a global map of estimated accessibility to cities:…Tags: accessibility, mobility | Continue reading
Dan Hurley, reporting for The New York Times, describes the use of statistical…Tags: algorithm, police | Continue reading
The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…Tags: California, fires, scale, Washington Post | Continue reading
FiveThirtyEight used a dataset on broadband as the basis for a couple of…Tags: artificial intelligence, missing data | Continue reading
The usually abstract, qualitative and sometimes quantitative chart type shows relationships. You can make them in R, if you must.Tags: R | Continue reading
Good lesson here. Christian Laesser was playing around with receipt data and initially…Tags: receipt, shopping | Continue reading
Alan Blinder and Michael Wines reporting for The New York Times:A panel…Tags: gerrymandering | Continue reading
Rip currents are like hidden rivers near the shore that head out to… | Continue reading
Data is an abstraction, and it's impossible to encapsulate everything it represents in real life. So there is uncertainty. Here are ways to visualize the uncertainty.Tags: uncertainty | Continue reading
The Obliteration Room (2012) by artist Yayoi Kusama started as a blank white…Tags: dots | Continue reading
Sports are growing more international with respect to the athletes. Gregor Aisch, Kevin…Tags: sports, Upshot | Continue reading
If you’re looking to acquaint yourself with R — the non-coding aspects of…Tags: R | Continue reading
People often use animated GIFs to digitally express caricatures of emotion or reaction.…Tags: emotion, GIF, Upshot | Continue reading
Treepedia, from the MIT Senseable City Lab, estimates perceived tree cover at the…Tags: city, environment, trees | Continue reading
One of my favorite childhood memories is the time I went camping and…Tags: light, pollution, time-lapse | Continue reading
It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year. Tags: best-of | Continue reading
Based on data from CAL FIRE, Erin Ross, for Axios, plotted California wildfires…Tags: Axios, fire | Continue reading
Fire spread over Los Angeles, but the famous art works in the Getty…Tags: fire, Getty, Los Angeles, New York Times | Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of families were displaced in the 1950s under “urban renewal”…Tags: family, urban | Continue reading
Oh. It’s that time of year already. Time to hate on the rainbow…Tags: color, rainbow | Continue reading
Statistics professor Di Cook was one of the first people I ever talked to about visualization. She has a short Q&A over at StatsChat. I spent a few years doing that [a research assistant] and t… | Continue reading
If you want to analyze bodies of text, it’s a good to know…Tags: regular expression | Continue reading
The New York Times is back at it in explaining the creative process.…Tags: Ed Sheeran, music, New York Times | Continue reading
Hearing about machine learning and algorithms a lot recently and not sure what…Tags: algorithm, explainer, machine learning | Continue reading
For the past few months, Cards Against Humanity polled the American public to…Tags: Cards Against Humanity, polling, public | Continue reading