Memento Movi, a mini-app by Michael Condouris, is what you get when you… Tags: humor, Michael Condouris, mortality | Continue reading
Martin Wattenberg drew up a live visualization that shows colors mentioned in Bluesky… Tags: Bluesky, color, firehose, Martin Wattenberg | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for the month: things to use, things to poke at, and things to learn from. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Our World in Data is a hub for research and reliable data to… Tags: API, Our World in Data | Continue reading
We like to imagine a world of autonomous robots that take care of… Tags: Chris Fenton, Large Language Model, robot | Continue reading
Foursquare, which I thought was still a location sharing app but is a… Tags: foursquare, location | Continue reading
Speaking of data blankets, the knitting club in the area I live has… Tags: blanket, crochet, physical, temperature | Continue reading
Jesse Gwinn, from NOAA, was at sea on a mapping expedition and to… Tags: bathymetry, crochet, ocean, physical | Continue reading
Bluesky firehose fun continues. Jared Short shows emoji usage as rain drops that… Tags: Bluesky, emoji, firehose, Jared Short | Continue reading
To demonstrate how easy and cheap it is to access the Bluesky firehose,… Tags: Bluesky, deletion, firehose | Continue reading
Bluesky has a relatively easy-to-use firehose that lets you dip into the stream… Tags: Bluesky, firehose, Theo Sanderson | Continue reading
A timeline showing the age difference between Mike Tyson and his opponents, over his career that started in 1985. Tags: age, boxing, Mike Tyson | Continue reading
For the New York Times, Mira Rojanasakul visualized annual participation in the United… Tags: climate change, New York Times, United Nations | Continue reading
Using faded lines to show the overall changes in a time series and to provide a point of reference for the present. Tags: d3js, JavaScript | Continue reading
The New York Times used swooping arrows to show vote swings left and… Tags: election, margin, New York Times | Continue reading
For the Minnesota Star Tribune, Yuqing Liu and C.J. Sinner show how the… Tags: election, margin, Minnesota Star Tribune | Continue reading
This week we look at connecting multiple charts explicitly and implicitly to provide a cohesive narrative or visual metaphor around a dataset. Tags: connections | Continue reading
We can see the changing scales of who works and for how long through employment rates by age and time. Tags: age, employment, work | Continue reading
For The Pudding, David Mora and Michelle Jia examine the death of the… Tags: David Mora, love, Michelle Jia, Pudding, song | Continue reading
Bluesky, maybe best pitched as a place for those who liked Twitter and… | Continue reading
With what is now a common mapping method, The Economist used a dot… Tags: Economist, election | Continue reading
To show the mix of votes across the country, the Washington Post used… Tags: election, metaphor, Washington Post | Continue reading
New York City recently issued a drought warning because of an abnormally dry… Tags: Bloomberg, drought, rain | Continue reading
For BBC, Zoe Kleinman reports: Not so long ago, 23andMe was in the… Tags: 23andMe, BBC | Continue reading
A $40 million superyacht called the Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily,… Tags: New York Times, superyacht | Continue reading
This week we talk randomness in the everyday. Tags: random, uncertainty | Continue reading
I made a chart about Halloween candy. Even dumb charts need attention and require that choices are made. Tags: Illustrator, R | Continue reading
The Night Train Map is for Europeans who want to travel at night:… Tags: Europe, train, travel | Continue reading
In the early 1800s, botanist and painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté painted hundreds of lily… Tags: catalog, flowers, Nicholas Rougeux, Pierre-Joseph Redouté | Continue reading
The Bloomberg Graphics desk is building out a jello map as states are… Tags: Bloomberg, election, food, physical | Continue reading
The major news outlets all have electoral vote cartograms, but I appreciate Bloomberg’s… Tags: Bloomberg, election | Continue reading
Some might wonder why early results lean towards a party and then shift… Tags: election, Washington Post | Continue reading
The Washington Post has a live county map that shows the shift towards… Tags: election, tracker, Washington Post | Continue reading
The Onion gained access to the most granular election data yet. Technology sure… Tags: election, humor, Onion, scale | Continue reading
You’ve seen the voting tendencies among standard demographic groups, but there is so… Tags: demographics, election, YouGov | Continue reading
Some states count quickly, whereas others can take days. For NYT, Alicia Parlapiano… Tags: elections, results | Continue reading
For The New York Times, June Kim, Leanne Abraham, and Maggie Astor provide… Tags: election, New York Times, time | Continue reading
For no particular reason on this particular day, here are spinners to try your hand at random everyday things with even odds. Good luck. Tags: chance, probability, uncertainty | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Lily Boyce, Jon Huang, and Blacki Migliozzi made… Tags: election, Electoral College, game, New York Times | Continue reading
NPR reports on the drying Central Asia water sources. The Aral Sea has… Tags: Aral Sea, climate change, NPR, satellite imagery | Continue reading
This is very important. How did your favorite candy rate? The old… Tags: candy, Halloween | Continue reading
Here is the good stuff for October. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
For NYT Upshot, Ronda Kaysen and Ethan Singer compared current voter registration data… Tags: movement, polarization, politics, Upshot | Continue reading
In NBA basketball, the home team used to almost always wear a white… Tags: basketball, Pudding, uniform | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek compared ad views per household: To figure out… Tags: ads, election, New York Times | Continue reading
See how different probabilities lead to different outcomes with an interactive chart. Tags: election, probability | Continue reading
Early voting isn’t coming in as hot as in 2020, but there are… Tags: election, turnout, voting, Washington Post | Continue reading
From Dave Taylor, this world map shows tidal ranges, from microtidal to macrotidal:… Tags: Dave Taylor, tides | Continue reading