Based on estimates from CarbonCounter by the MIT Trancik Lab, electric vehicles typically produce less emissions than gas vehicles when you account for battery production and charging. However, whe… | Continue reading
Show change over time and geography with smooth transitions.Tags: animation, R | Continue reading
The Economist combined two satellite imagery sources, one that estimates fire events and one that estimates building damage, to assess the extent of damage in Ukraine: Both approaches have weakness… | Continue reading
The structure of a dataset can help you pick a visualization method or chart type, but it only takes you part of the way there. To demonstrate, Ferdio started with a simple dataset with six data po… | Continue reading
This is a fun one from Russell Samora and Reshad Malekzai for The Pudding. When watching basketball, one of the best things is when a player has an unexpectedly great game, so Samora looked for the… | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for February.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
The New York Times shows how the west tried to isolate Russia and how things haven’t gone as expected. A series of packed bubbles, cartograms, and flowcharts provide a visual timeline for eac… | Continue reading
Bloomberg compared retirement years in the context of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. The latter represents how long the average person stays healthy, which is shorter than the former.… | Continue reading
The rich continue to get richer, and everyone else either only kind of earns more or stays where they're at.Tags: income, wealth, work | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, Emmanuel Martinez, Kevin Schaul and Hamza Shaban mapped the share of houses bought with all cash in 2022. It was about a third of all homes, which was an 8% increase from 2… | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Eleanor Lutz illustrated things in the sky, because there are other objects up there other than spy balloons and UFOs. A long vertical scale is used to represent altitude. B… | Continue reading
Marking the third anniversary of the first Covid deaths in the United States, Ally J. Levine, for Reuters, used cyanotype to talk about the grief of those who lost a loved one. Levine explained the… | Continue reading
Tie in the real bits among the abstract shapes, colors, and geometries of charts to make the latter easier to understand.Tags: abstract, illustration, reality | Continue reading
Grocery stores with loyalty programs collect data on what and when you buy at their stores. Then they sell that data, because of course they do. For The Markup, Jon Keegan delves into why that matt… | Continue reading
As part of the Knowing Machines research project, A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets, by Sarah Ciston, offers advice for working through the life cycle of complex and… | Continue reading
For Tedium, Chris Dalla Riva examined why the number of credited songwriters per song appears to have increased so much over the past decade: Between 1960 and 1980, 48 percent of number ones had at… | Continue reading
In celebration of the most romantic day of the year that is sometimes comedic, Sam Hart, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, for Reuters, tours the genres within the genres of romantic comedy. You… | Continue reading
Watch the growth strategy behind Target stores, starting with the first location in 1962 in Minnesota.Tags: animation, target | Continue reading
AI-based image generation take bits and pieces from existing people-made images and tries to smartly mash sources together for something new. However, that something new often looks a lot like some… | Continue reading
Okay, one more LeBron James thing, mostly because I like seeing different looks at the same data and topic. For The Washington Post, Artur Galocha and Ben Golliver focus on the longevity and consis… | Continue reading
After a big earthquake, such as the 7.8 that hit Turkey and Syria, it is important that search and rescue be carried through in an organized way when everything around is chaos. For Reuters, Adolfo… | Continue reading
Not everything has to be permanent, but it would be nice if the best visualization projects were still available many years from now.Tags: archive, history | Continue reading
China reported 80,000 Covid deaths since lifting restrictions in early December 2022. But researchers believe the count is much higher, because the figure only includes hospital deaths and the coun… | Continue reading
All The King’s Buckets. pic.twitter.com/lzIultYSee— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) February 8, 2023 LeBron James passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for all-time points in the NBA, and somehow I di… | Continue reading
For South China Morning Post, Victor Sanjinez and Dennis Wong used a visual story to show why Pele was so great at football and in life. Illustrations mixed with a few charts makes for a good expla… | Continue reading
If you're searching for a new job, it's worth looking in different industries instead of doing more of the same elsewhere.Tags: industry, work | Continue reading
I wasn’t paying much attention to the Chinese balloon that the U.S. shot down — until this graphic by JoElla Carman for NBC News floated by. The balloon was 200 feet tall, which makes t… | Continue reading
NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies tracks large objects, such as asteroids, that have passed Earth or are headed towards it. Reuters visualized the nearest objects in the database. T… | Continue reading
You know those funny or weird screenshots from Google Street View that enter your feed every now and then? Sometimes there’s an odd-looking building or a person in a puzzling situation. Neal … | Continue reading
It is okay to fill the void with something fun.Tags: audience, egg, purpose | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Joe Mayes, Andre Tartar, and Demetrios Pogkas show shifts in public opinion in the UK, based on Bloomberg UK’s Levelling Up Scorecard. I’m into the gradients to show the opinio… | Continue reading
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphorical clock that symbolizes a catastrophic end to the planet due to human self-destruction. Midnight represents an event and the time represents the “minutes… | Continue reading
George Santos, currently a U.S. representative, seems to lie about his background and qualifications. Someone will look into the details, show that they’re questionable, and the Santos story … | Continue reading
Reddit user nerdydancing tracked her earnings on each shift for four years. If any dataset promised stories behind each data point, it is probably this one. | Continue reading
In a story about how scientists are using drones to fight plant extinction, Reuters Graphics uses a blend of video, illustration, and statistical graphics. I like the part in the middle where the m… | Continue reading
Researchers at Google built a model that generates music based on brief text descriptions: We introduce MusicLM, a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as “a calmi… | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, William Neff, Aaron Steckelberg, and Christian Davenport show the contrast between NASA and SpaceX using a scrolly tour through 3-D rocket models. | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for January.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Fabio Crameri, Grace Shephard, and Philip Heron in Nature discuss the drawbacks of using the rainbow color scheme to visualize data and more readable alternatives: The accurate representation of da… | Continue reading
Using the third dimension in visualization can be tricky because of rendering, perception, and presentation. Matthew Conlen, Jeffrey Heer, Hillary Mushkin, and Scott Davidoff provide a strong use c… | Continue reading
Pack circles, figure out the transitions between time segments, and then generate frames to string together.Tags: animation, R | Continue reading
A shooting in Monterey Park, California on Lunar New Year’s eve left 11 people dead. It was the 33rd mass shooting in the United States — for the month. For The Washington Post, Júlia L… | Continue reading
A law was passed in 1990 that allowed Native American tribes to request remains unrightfully attained by museums and universities. Many of those remains have not been returned because of a loophole… | Continue reading
Happiness and meaningfulness in what we do do not always go together.Tags: time use, well-being | Continue reading
In celebration of Chinese New Year, Julia Janicki, Daisy Chung, and Joyce Chou rotate through the traditional foods served with an illustrated Lazy Susan. | Continue reading
There’s been a lot of rain in California, which has been good to relieve some of the pressures from drought, at least in the short-term. For The New York Times, Elena Shao, Mira Rojanasakul, … | Continue reading
AI training data comes from the internet, and as we know but maybe forget sometimes, there are harmful areas that are terrible for people. For Time, Billy Perrigo reports on how OpenAI outsourced a… | Continue reading
Sometimes the noise, something we often try to minimize in data, makes for a better signal.Tags: noise, uncertainty | Continue reading