It’s Independence Day here in the United States, which means there will be fireworks in a lot of places. This chart from John Keefe for CNN shows why plans have changed in many areas. That… | Continue reading
As you know, Reddit is typically a sophisticated place of kind and pleasant conversation. So Colin Morris analyzed the usage of compound pejoratives in Reddit comments: The full “matrix”… | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for June.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
The Office for National Statistics for the UK published an interactive to show how population has changed: The population of England and Wales has increased by more than 3.5 million in the 10 years… | Continue reading
This past weekend marked 15 years since I first posted on FlowingData. What started as a placeholder for class projects, became a hobby, which eventually turned into a career choice. With each year… | Continue reading
Visualising Knowledge is an open book from PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, based on 25 years of making charts: PBL data visualisation is about visualising research results, using g… | Continue reading
An Introduction to Statistical Learning, by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Rob Tibshirani: As the scale and scope of data collection continue to increase across virtually all fiel… | Continue reading
Felix Krause tracks many metrics of his life, both manually and passively, and put the data in one database. He put up a subset of the data on an updating site that shows where he is, what he’… | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Larry Buchanan and Lauren Leatherby used Sankey diagrams to show the endings from active shootings in the United States: Most attacks captured in the data were already over … | Continue reading
With Roe vs. Wade in place, there were areas in the United States where a woman had to travel farther than others to get to the nearest clinic. With Roe vs. Wade overturned, the geography will chan… | Continue reading
Trading optimized visual efficiency in charts for joy and interest.Tags: efficiency | Continue reading
In 1692, artist A. Boogert published a guide to watercolors, showing the thousands of possibilities of mixing 31 shades. Nicholas Rougeux, as per his specialty, modernized the work into an interact… | Continue reading
While geographic boundaries can often seem like a semi-static thing, they’ve changed a lot when you look at them on the scale of centuries. Point in History, by Hans Hack, presents a map of w… | Continue reading
John Rich made pie charts of dog body proportions. This is very important.…Tags: dogs, humor | Continue reading
There are "better" ways to show proportions over time, but sometimes you just want an animated donut.Tags: animation, R | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Pablo Robles, Anton Troianovski, and Agnes Chang mapped the change in destinations for Russian private jets, before and after sanctions. Before, it was more about Paris, Mil… | Continue reading
Thousands of smaller airplanes are still allowed to use leaded fuel, which can lead to unwanted emissions around airports. For Quartz, David Yanofsky and Michael J. Coren mapped flight activity for… | Continue reading
They serve as a point of reference in some charts and guide the eyes in others, coming in different styles and layouts.Tags: grid | Continue reading
Wayne Oldford, a statistics professor at the University of Waterloo, explains risk in the context of daily life at the individual level, because “one in a million” is not especially int… | Continue reading
Hands-On Data Visualization, by Jack Dougherty and Ilya Ilyankou, is an open-access book geared for beginners. The book starts with spreadsheets, and then walks you through some of the more high-le… | Continue reading
The Marshall Project and Axios report that the FBI changed their reporting system last year, and 40 percent of law enforcement agencies didn’t submit any data: In 2021, the FBI retired its ne… | Continue reading
Christophe Coupé and company analyzed speech rate (on the left) across different languages, and then compared it to information rate (on the right) in bits per second. While speech rate and informa… | Continue reading
This fun interactive map by William B. Davis shows you the ten closest airports, given a location in the world. The current location serves as the “hub”, and the ten “spokes”… | Continue reading
James Eagle used an animated donut chart to show browser share from 1996 to present. I have fond memories of firing up Netscape to punch in a web address I saw in a magazine. It felt like I was ope… | Continue reading
The key is assigning an appropriate amount of weight, statistically and visually, for comparisons that make sense.Tags: absolute, relative, scale | Continue reading
Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding are tracking heat records in 400 cities in the United States. Choose a city, see if yesterday was a record, and find out how it measures up again… | Continue reading
There are thousands of satellites that orbit Earth, with about half of them launched in the past three years. Financial Times shows why that’s a problem in a scrolling piece through space deb… | Continue reading
Karim Douïeb, in collaboration with Possible, mapped noise in Paris, New York, and London. The color on each map represents noise level, and if you have your sound on, you can mouse over areas to h… | Continue reading
I wondered how common it is for someone to get a divorce. While I’ve touched on the topic before, I’ve never calculated it directly, so I gave it a go.Tags: divorce, marriage | Continue reading
Eli Holder shows how he split his freelance time across various projects and categories. With visualization work, a lot of your time is spent doing non-visualization things: As expected, at 16 perc… | Continue reading
Hannah Fry works with statistics and risk, but her perspective changed when she was diagnosed with cancer. Fry documented the experience and it’s available on BBC: Hannah Fry, a professor of … | Continue reading
With gas prices a lot higher than usual, Júlia Ledur, Leslie Shapiro, and N. Kirkpatrick, for The Washington Post, provide a calculator to see how much more your road trip will cost in the United S… | Continue reading
Answer the questions. Produce more focused and useful charts.Tags: questions | Continue reading
Vox, in collaboration with The Pudding, looked at what happens when a song goes viral on TikTok. It heads down the TikTok-to-Spotify pipeline, which signals money to be made and draws labels to tak… | Continue reading
Matthew Crump, a psychology professor who discovered high volume cheating in his class via WeChat, outlines the saga in five parts. Bonus points for use of R to analyze the evidence: I do a lot of … | Continue reading
There are baby formula shortages in the United States. A criticism from some who don’t know what they’re talking about are for parents to “just” breastfeed. Alyssa Rosenberg… | Continue reading
To estimate public interest in the many political issues across the United States, Axios used Google Trends data to map issues by congressional district. Switch between the many topics, and you see… | Continue reading
In election reporting, there’s a gap between real-time results and final results, so news orgs use statistical models to show where results appear to be headed. For The Washington Post, Adria… | Continue reading
RJ Andrews digs up the PC archives of charting software. Scrolling through the thread, you can see the roots of Excel in the software that pre-dates the 1987 Windows release, along with what was co… | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for May.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Among 1- to 19-year-olds, regulations decreased motor vehicle deaths, but deaths by firearms increased and became the leading mechanism in 2018. Tags: firearms, mortality | Continue reading
This chart from The New York Times, based on estimates from Our World In Data and World Bank, shows GDP per capita against gun homicide rates. The United States stands alone. Why. | Continue reading
The Washington Post maintains a database of school shootings (which is sad in itself that such a thing has to exist) to keep record of tragedy that the U.S. government does not track. They calculat… | Continue reading
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer, for NYT Opinion, approached the one-million mark for Covid deaths with text messages. The piece starts on February 29, 2020, when the first person died because of Covid. The … | Continue reading
The war in Ukraine continues, but the scale and objects appear to have changed over time. Josh Holder, Marco Hernandez, and Jon Huang for The New York Times mapped the shrinking scope as Russia los… | Continue reading
Cindermedusae by Marcin Ignac is “a generative encyclopedia of imaginary sea creatures.” I’m…Tags: animals, generative art, Marcin Ignac | Continue reading
Alyssa Fowers and Leslie Shapiro, for The Washington Post, used the stories of 114 individuals to show weekly Covid deaths. Each story is “cut short”, making the length of each fragment… | Continue reading
Without purpose, there isn't a whole lot to grasp on.Tags: purpose | Continue reading