Maybe you’ve wished you could quickly grab the data on a webpage and instantly have it in a structured format. But you don’t know how to program or you do, but don’t want to go th… | Continue reading
When you have a lot of noisy data, it can be helpful to detect signals in some sort of quantitative and automated way rather than just eyeballing it. Signal detection theory can provide some of the… | Continue reading
A straightforward lineup of animals that fly provide a sense of scale, from tiny to very big. I feel like some everyday objects like a car or a helicopter would’ve really driven the point, bu… | Continue reading
Reuters dug in to the science of sleep and how paying attention to our rhythms affect our health. On dreams: Sleep itself has cycles, in which the brain and body move through phases, marked by vary… | Continue reading
Looking for what it means.Tags: caring | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Josh Holder and Marco Hernandez show the areas still controlled by Ukraine and the areas captured by Russia. But instead of a single map, they split up the regions into mult… | Continue reading
It rained a lot more than usual this winter in California. Diana Leonard and Dylan Moriarty, for The Washington Post, explain the science behind all the water falling from the sky. | Continue reading
Despite available vacation days, it appears that American workers are taking less and less vacation. Andrew Van Dam, for The Washington Post’s Department of Data, has the demographic breakdow… | Continue reading
If you don’t use a colorblind-safe color palette in your maps and charts, a significant percentage of people will get nothing out of your work. For The Verge, Andy Baio, who is colorblind, di… | Continue reading
For FiveThirtyEight, Geoffrey Skelley digs into the ongoing trend: What’s behind these increasingly older Congresses? The country’s aging population as a whole is chiefly responsible, which is most… | Continue reading
This clever chart by Lazaro Gamio shows changing interest rates set by the…Tags: animation, interest, New York Times, projections | Continue reading
Focus on the goal or get lost in the sea of infinite solutions.Tags: caring | Continue reading
Jenka Gurfinkel discusses the appearance of the American smile in AI-generated images and its implications in interpreting data: Every American knows to say “cheese” when taking a photo, and, there… | Continue reading
The 2022 results from the State of the Industry survey, run by the Data Visualization Society, are out. Among 1,218 respondents, see the roles, the salaries, and the responsibilities: The overall m… | Continue reading
Riding a bicycle is a seemingly simple activity that we never forget how to do. However, the physics behind pedaling and movement is a balance between force and resistance. Bartosz Ciechanowski bre… | Continue reading
We tend to use more water than is available in the world, which as you can imagine, can be problematic. In a collaborative effort, National Geographic mapped the water gap since 1980: The result is… | Continue reading
Taylor Swift is currently on tour. During a show, she sings 44 songs split up into 10 acts as she moves across a spectacle of a stage. A fan, who goes by vinoj, mapped Swift’s path and locati… | Continue reading
This is the good stuff for March.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Tech layoffs continue, and as companies deliver more letters, there are some repeated topics. For The Washington Post, Hamza Shaban, Luis Melgar, and Leslie Shapiro parsed out the patterns: The Pos… | Continue reading
This is necessarily uncomfortable to go through, but for The Washington Post, N. Kirkpatrick, Atthar Mirza, and Manuel Canales show the bodily damage caused by an AR-15 bullet versus a 9mm round. | Continue reading
For the San Francisco Chronicle, Nami Sumida shows admission rates at University of California campuses, categorized by public and private high schools: Admissions for UCLA and Berkeley, the most c… | Continue reading
Throughout the United States, there are a surprising number of cities that have the same name. In fact, after playing with this interactive map by Russell Samora for The Pudding, it seems more like… | Continue reading
With online dating apps, you’re able to filter out potential matches based on characteristics like age and height. The Economist charted who’s filtering out what. The chart took me a se… | Continue reading
After three years, The New York Times is switching away from local data collection to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: As the virus began to spread rapidly in the United St… | Continue reading
For ProPublica, Al Shaw, Irena Hwang, and Caroline Chen explain the increased risk of spreading disease when there are fewer trees and physical barriers in between people: The implications of such … | Continue reading
With fewer people in mind, you can visualize data with fewer trade-offs and greater focus.Tags: audience | Continue reading
In the 1950s, less than 10% of families with children were single-parent. In 2022, among families with children, 31% were single-parent — more than three times as common.Tags: parenting, single | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor, Aaron Steckelberg, and Laura Reiley visually describe the use of artificial sweeteners in so-called healthy foods. Like with their piece on coffee versus t… | Continue reading
Continuing an analysis of IRS records, Robert Faturechi and Ellis Simani for ProPublica delve into the timing of executives trading stock in partners and competitors: The Medpace executive is among… | Continue reading
It’s been raining a lot here in California, which is helpful, because most of the state has been in severe drought for the past few years. However, the current aging systems can only capture … | Continue reading
Going off the calendar, today is the first day of spring, but nature just goes off the weather. For The Washington Post, Harry Stevens mapped the early and late arrival of spring leaves across the … | Continue reading
In the middle of 2022, a popular video on TikTok, since taken down, showed how to easily start a Kia or Hyundai with a USB connector. The trend started a year earlier in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where… | Continue reading
Energy is finite. So is time.Tags: burnout | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, John Muyskens, Shannon Osaka, and Naema Ahmed mapped the main ways that Americans heat their homes: Thanks to a combination of local climates, electricity prices and histor… | Continue reading
People are waiting longer to have kids or not having kids at all, which leads to more dual income households with no kids.Tags: family, income, kids | Continue reading
GeoGuessr player rainbolt is next-level good at reading Google Maps. Given a short Vine clip, he walks through his process of figuring out the exact location of the video in about 15 minutes: It sh… | Continue reading
These are all the failures since 2001, scaled by amount of assets in 2023 dollars.Tags: banks, FDIC | Continue reading
Based on analysis by economics professor Caitlin Myers, FiveThirtyEight provides a hypothetical map that shows how access changes in terms of distance to travel and increase in patients at nearby c… | Continue reading
The NBA currently uses player-tracking that estimates player position on the court in two dimensions. Imagine x-y-coordinates for a player at any given time. But of course two dimensions wasn’… | Continue reading
Same old chart, but make it move for another dimension.Tags: animation | Continue reading
Hannah Ritchie compared electric vehicle range over the years: The median range of EVs has increased 3.5-fold since 2011. You can see the median increasing as the red line shifts further to the rig… | Continue reading
Here's household income by number of earners in the household, based on data from the 2022 Current Population Survey.Tags: households, income | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, Harry Stevens used the line chart equivalent of a bar chart race to show when China is projected to pass the United States in total emissions. There is some quiz action to … | Continue reading
Asian characters in American films are historically less integral to the stories and written with less depth. However, things have noticeably shifted over the past few years, which you can see thro… | Continue reading
As a world population, we’re growing taller, but South Koreans seemed to grow a lot quicker over the past century. Vox breaks down height distributions and explains the increased rate in Sout… | Continue reading
Shooting down a floating balloon out on its lonesome seems like a straightforward task. It’s just a balloon after all. But it seemed to take a while to get that Chinese spy balloon down. For … | Continue reading
In a sea of endless possibilities, narrow down your visualization options by looking for what works instead of looking for what is the best.Tags: choice, questions | Continue reading
For Bloomberg Green, Jin Wu, Laura Millan and Hayley Warren, on the challenges ski resorts face with rising temperatures: Artificial snowmaking has become more efficient, so it uses less water and … | Continue reading