While reading this NYT article, by Jodi Kantor and Arya Sundaram, on the drawbacks of activity and time tracking for work, the article itself tracks your reading behavior. You see counters for the … | Continue reading
Davey Alba and Jack Gillum, for Bloomberg, found that Google Maps commonly points people to crisis pregnancy centers, non-medical locations that encourage women to follow through with pregnancy, wh… | Continue reading
As part of a teaching initiative by Amazon, MLU-Explain is a series of interactive explainers on core machine learning concepts. Learn about training sets, decision trees, random forests, and more.… | Continue reading
Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng, for The Markup, identified 37 companies that collect data from connected cars. On where it goes and how the companies profit: Once a driver gets into a car, dozens of sens… | Continue reading
Charles Piller, for Science, highlights the work of Matthew Schrag, who uses image analysis to look for falsified data, recently scrutinizing a link between a protein and Alzheimer’s: “So muc… | Continue reading
It just needs a little polish.Tags: editing, polish | Continue reading
Serena Williams announced her retirement from professional tennis. As is required for any milestone by a great athlete, a step chart from The New York Times shows her world ranking over time. I lik… | Continue reading
We hear about electric vehicles being the future, but for that to happen, people eventually need to be able to drive long distances without getting stranded. For Bloomberg Green, Kyle Stock and Jer… | Continue reading
Using a combination of satellite imagery, crowdsourced databases, and analyses, The New York Times identified airstrips used for illegal mining in Brazil: To confirm these locations and connect the… | Continue reading
People disagree whether the United States is in a recession or not, because there isn’t a generalized formula you can just plug some numbers into. Instead, the translation of of many economic… | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Marie Patino reports on the shifting design choices for mapping weather extremes. The rainbow color scheme and sunny icons aren’t cutting it anymore. | Continue reading
For Reuters, Travis Hartman, Ally J. Levine, and Anurag Rao describe the measures taken to protect giant sequoia trees from wildfire. The trees have their own protections with thick bark and droppe… | Continue reading
As city centers heat up, people search for cooler areas. For Bloomberg Green, Laura Millan, Hayley Warren and Jeremy Scott Diamond mapped the neighborhoods for a handful of hot cities that have som… | Continue reading
A few lines and a color fill can change how others see a dataset.Tags: focus, highlight | Continue reading
This visual explorer by Rachel Binx lets you see Amtrak routes and stations in the United States. Click on a route. See the stations. Seeing the routes laid out like this kind of makes me want to t… | Continue reading
Recently published in Nature, research by Chetty, R., Jackson, M.O., Kuchler, T. et al. suggests that economic connectedness, or friendships between rich and poor, could improve economic mobility. … | Continue reading
Who is the most famous person born in the place you live? This interactive map by Topi Tjukanov lets you answer that question for anywhere in the world. The pool of possible people comes from a cro… | Continue reading
This European travel map by Benjamin Td shows how far you can travel in five hours, given a station location. Just hover over the map, and you see the areas, or isochrones that are reachable in fiv… | Continue reading
With tonight’s Mega Millions jackpot estimated at $1.28 billion, you might be wondering what the odds of winning are, even if you know the chances are super slim for an individual. (On the ot… | Continue reading
DALL-E is an AI system from OpenAI that creates images from text. You can enter very random things and get very real-looking output. So of course someone entered “data visualization in the st… | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for July.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Christopher Flavelle, for The New York Times, reported on the lack of support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for those who were displaced by natural disasters. Area charts by Mira Roj… | Continue reading
RStudio, the company behind the IDE of the same name, are changing their name to Posit: Our charter defines our mission as the creation of free and open source software for data science, scientific… | Continue reading
In 2012, Thomas Davenport and DJ Patil outlined a budding career choice called “data science” where people, with a combination of programming and statistics, made sense of “big… | Continue reading
This is a story about pizza, geometry, and making sure you get what you paid for.Tags: area, geometry, pizza | Continue reading
For Scientific American, RJ Andrews looks back at the visualization work of Florence Nightingale: Recognizing that few people actually read statistical tables, Nightingale and her team designed gra… | Continue reading
For Washington Post Opinion, a struggling mapmaker makes a plea to stop climate…Tags: climate, color, humor, Washington Post | Continue reading
Delaunay triangulations have applications in computer graphics, spatial analysis, and visualization. They “maximize…Tags: Delaunay, explainer, Ian Henry | Continue reading
It's better to err on the side of obvious than leave things ambiguous.Tags: annotation, units | Continue reading
Speaking of the heat wave in Europe, Pierre Breteau for Le Monde charted…Tags: climate, heat, Le Monde, temperature | Continue reading
Many European countries are experience record high temperatures, so The Washington Post used…Tags: climate, heat, popsicles, Washington Post | Continue reading
There’s a database of feathers called Featherbase, because of course there is: Featherbase…Tags: birds, feather | Continue reading
Researchers are studying the electrical rhythms in plant cells. I’m not sure what…Tags: plants, rhythm | Continue reading
Emily Badger and Eve Washington for NYT’s The Upshot show how the housing…Tags: housing, Upshot | Continue reading
Given the current restrictions in the U.S., Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma…Tags: period, privacy | Continue reading
As I’m sure you know, mass shootings, which gain attention because the scale…Tags: guns, law, mortality, Washington Post | Continue reading
The NRA Children’s Museum from Change the Ref is a mile-long convoy of…Tags: bus, guns, students | Continue reading
While some parts of visualization are formulaic, outside variables require that you adjust.Tags: judgement, practice | Continue reading
There’s a data visualization book bundle on Humble Bundle this month. Get twenty-two…Tags: books, Bundle | Continue reading
The first public picture from the James Webb telescope is kind of cool…Tags: NASA, Sergio Peçanha, telescope, Washington Post | Continue reading
You’ve probably seen the moving bubbles that show how something changes over time.…Tags: immigration, income, New York Times | Continue reading
NASA released an image from the Webb First Deep Field telescope, which shows…Tags: galaxies, NASA, telescope | Continue reading
The United States Department of Agriculture provides annual inventory data on livestock, crops, and various products. The tool is very ad hoc government-looking, but it seems to work well enough. E… | Continue reading
From the listener perspective, we pay our monthly or annual fees and just turn on our music streams. The path those fees take from our wallet to musicians is less straightforward. For The Pudding, … | Continue reading
Use visual metaphors to shorten the distance between data and what it represents.Tags: abstract, literal | Continue reading
Income distribution continues to stretch on the high end and squish on the low end. For The New York Times, Sophie Kasakove and Robert Gebeloff look closer at what’s happening in the middle: … | Continue reading
You’ve probably heard of the trolley problem, a thought experiment that imagines a trolley approaching a fork in the tracks. There are five people stuck on one path and one person stuck on th… | Continue reading
By purchasing certain foods, we make decisions about the carbon footprint from the production of those foods. Most of us don’t have a good idea of how much difference our choices can make tho… | Continue reading