What counts as middle class depends on who and where you’re asking. Even if two households, say a single-person household in Montana and a five-person in California, earn the same income, the… | Continue reading
When you first learn to play music, a lot of the instruction is about structure. Turn the metronome on and follow the beats straight up. James Dewitt Yancey, also known as J Dilla, shifted the beat… | Continue reading
In a fun one by Alyssa Fowers, for The Washington Post’s Department of Data, a map of the most common donut shops in the United States: We kicked off our investigation with our friends at Yel… | Continue reading
Katherine Sayre, for The Wall Street Journal, on Las Vegas casinos squeezing out more juice: Gambling companies such as MGM Resorts and Caesars, the two biggest operators on the Strip, have reduced… | Continue reading
For ProPublica, Ian MacDougall and Sergio Hernandez evaluated records of sitting justices to gauge the rights at risk of being taken away. Each right gets a section with background, bills and court… | Continue reading
In an effort to provide a more transparent process in visualization and interaction research, The Journal of Visualization and Interaction begins: The Journal of Visualization and Interaction (JoVI… | Continue reading
Focus on the small visualization things you can improve while still getting your work done.Tags: practice | Continue reading
To better understand the scale of time and feed your existential dread, Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh used LED lights spread miles across a desert, proportional to milestones in the history of t… | Continue reading
This is a good example of things are not quite what they seem until you look at more data. Andrew Van Dam, for Washington Post’s Department of Data, looks into why it appears red states hire … | Continue reading
Add another geolocation guessing game that I am terrible at. TimeGuessr shows you a photograph, and you guess when and where it was taken. | Continue reading
Baseball games grew longer over the decades, with the average length well over three hours in recent years. Ben Blatt and Francesca Paris, for NYT’s The Upshot, show how a few rule changes th… | Continue reading
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), run by the OECD since 2000, surveys teenage students to estimate the quality of education around the world. One of the questions asked: &#… | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for May.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
With a cross between the games Wordle and GeoGuessr, Russell Samora for The Pudding made a daily game that challenges you to geolocate a place based on images of the place from Wikimedia Commons. Y… | Continue reading
No need to restrict ourselves to the most common types. There are thousands. Let's look at all of them.Tags: households | Continue reading
You’ve probably heard about big data breaches over the years. They’re in the news or you get an email from a company that kindly reminds you to reset your password, because a few millio… | Continue reading
You’ve probably heard of esports, where people compete against each other in multiplayer video games. Financial Modeling World Cup runs esports for Microsoft Excel. Players get a fixed amount… | Continue reading
Cutting the national debt is a complex process that involves a lot more than personal preferences of an individual. But what if you simplified the task to a bunch of yes-no answers and made it into… | Continue reading
Same data brings out the same visual forms. So switch up the data that you look at.Tags: practice | Continue reading
Research by Edward W. Felten, Manav Raj, and Robert Seamans provides estimates for how occupations will be impacted by artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, based on AI exposure … | Continue reading
In a cross between unit charts and variable width bar charts, we can show total counts and relative proportions at the same time.Tags: R | Continue reading
The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest finished up this past weekend with the winning song coming from Sweden. Hundreds of millions of people watch the contest worldwide, but I’m pretty sure most A… | Continue reading
Alvin Chang, for The Pudding, illustrated the search for his kimchi, which is a metaphor for other things. Interact with the items in the story and be sure to turn the sound on. There are charts tu… | Continue reading
With a cross between the games Wordle and GeoGuessr, Russell Samora for The Pudding made a daily game that challenges you to geolocate a place based on images of the place from Wikimedia Commons. Y… | Continue reading
To show the scale of tax cuts and Australia’s budget, ABC News takes the long, vertical unit chart approach, and the squares just keep coming. This is one of those scrollers that works best o… | Continue reading
Filed under random but fun calculations, Alasdair Rae estimated the number of people within interstate boundaries: I loaded up a MapTiler streets backdrop layer in QGIS, created polygons from the t… | Continue reading
One of the most straightforward ways to "do the thing" — and stay on the right track towards work you want to do — is to mimic projects that you like.Tags: mimic, practice | Continue reading
Maybe your best possible life is ahead of you.Tags: age, time use, well-being | Continue reading
Achim Zeileis and Paul Murrell provide a rundown of the more user-friendly color palettes available in R by default since version 4.0. The new palettes make it easier to see differences and less li… | Continue reading
Mona Chalabi, known around these parts for her illustrative approach to data journalism, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her New York Times piece on Jeff Bezos’ extreme wealth. She compared … | Continue reading
Charts that use two different scales on the same vertical often get the automatic “misleading” label, because if you stretch and shrink two data series enough, you’ll eventually f… | Continue reading
As the climate changes, the places that different types of trees will grow also shifts. Harry Stevens, for The Washington Post, provides the searchable maps to show the changes, based on data from … | Continue reading
You might’ve heard about large language models lately. They’re the “brains” behind recent chatbots that seem to know an awful lot. Aatish Bhatia, for NYT’s The Upshot,… | Continue reading
Split it up into small pieces and then aim for depth.Tags: practice | Continue reading
Quantum computing promises a higher level of processing power over current computers, but it comes with its own challenges with implementation. When it comes to fruition, it’ll also break cur… | Continue reading
Mira Rojanasakul and Max Bearak for The New York Times highlight the rise of pumped storage around the world. Instead of a big dam to store water, two reservoirs are used. One is high. The other is… | Continue reading
My schedule doesn’t really fit with the daily-thing-for-thirty-days genre of challenges. So my genius idea was to compress a 30-day challenge into one day.Tags: 30DayChartChallenge, practice | Continue reading
Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors scored 50 points in game 7 against the Sacramento Kings. He made 20 shots. Instead of the standard shot chart with dots on a simplified court, Todd Whiteh… | Continue reading
Bed Bath & Beyond filed for bankruptcy, so Alex Leeds Matthews and Amy O’Kruk for CNN took the chance to look at the product offerings for the store. It is mostly beyond at this point. I… | Continue reading
Ice is melting at the poles, which makes it seem like a localized problem. However, as NPR shows and describes in a visual series, the large amounts of fresh water melting into the ocean mixes in w… | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for April.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Zahra Hirji and Denise Lu on the electrification of the national school bus fleet: Most school buses today run on diesel. The climate footprint of a diesel school bus is about 3.3 po… | Continue reading
Disney began more layoffs, and data-centric FiveThirtyEight, which is owned by Disney, was part of the round. Nate Silver, founder and editor-in-chief of the site, also announced he is likely to be… | Continue reading
Daniel Wolfe for The Washington Post looked at the similar word choices across cannabis business names: To check if companies are distinguishing themselves, we analyzed every dispensary listing fro… | Continue reading
Based on the United Nations’ world population report, it is estimated that India’s population will increase past China’s some time this year. For The New York Times, Alex Travelli… | Continue reading
There are various ways to earn an income, but most people have a job and receive wages in return. That starts to change depending on who you’re asking.Tags: income, work | Continue reading
You know what they say about assumptions.Tags: assumptions, audience, teaching | Continue reading
Neal Agarwal is up to his wonderful ridiculousness again. Imagining an elevator that goes up to space, a long scroll through the skies gives you a sense of elevation up until you leave Earth. See h… | Continue reading