More lines can mean more patterns, more cycles, and more context.Tags: overlapping | Continue reading
Microsoft researchers analyzed keystrokes by time of day, for a sample of Microsoft employees during this past summer. You can see the typical peaks during work hours with a dip for lunch. But amon… | Continue reading
The 2022 Oscars came and went, and it was like all anyone could talk about was how outfits paired with public health charts. William Lopez has the collection. | Continue reading
For Nature, Lynne Peeples spoke to the people behind many of the popular covid dashboards and the lessons learned: Among the shared themes for the dashboards were simplicity and clarity. Whether yo… | Continue reading
The New York Times shows how Russia has tried to take over and how Ukraine continues to stop the offensives. The mixed media piece pulls you in to how different strategies have worked and have not,… | Continue reading
See how your country compares.Tags: literacy | Continue reading
For privacy reasons, there’s a 72-year restriction on individual Census records, which include names and addresses. It’s 72 years today since the release of the 1950 Census. The scanned… | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, Bonnie Berkowitz and Artur Galocha report on several facets of Russia’s logistics, from poor protection, to poor communication, to vehicle breakdowns. | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for March.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Say what you will about circular visualization, but the spiral plays. This one from NASA shows global temperature change over time: The visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies b… | Continue reading
Selecting a color palette for a single chart can be tricky, which is why we see so many charts that just go with defaults. Selecting a color palette for all your charts is a bigger challenge. For D… | Continue reading
Based on polls by Gallup, almost half of U.S. employees thought their employers cared about their well-being early on in the pandemic. That sentiment did not last: Fewer than one in four U.S. emplo… | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, researchers Sarah Cobey, Jesse Bloom, and Tyler Starr, along with NYT graphics editor Nathaniel Lash, discuss the potential mutations for the coronavirus. The accompanying graphic … | Continue reading
Baryon Design collated data for all the vehicles James Bond used across all 25 films. You can see every vehicle used, categorized by type and displayed by time of use. | Continue reading
The New York Times analyzed Russian radio communications near Kyiv. The unencrypted transmissions, which anyone with a ham radio could record and even interject in, seem to suggest logistical mista… | Continue reading
Excess deaths is the difference between expected deaths based on historical data and actual total deaths. It’s an estimate for how many people really died from covid. For Axios, Will Chase an… | Continue reading
Be skeptical of your data in the beginning to save time in the end.Tags: editing, questions | Continue reading
Based on estimates from the World Inequality Lab, Bloomberg shows how wealthier individuals’ habits — not just countries’ activities — contribute more to overall carbon emis… | Continue reading
Here’s a fun/alarming weather map from The Pudding. Using data from the Applied Climate Information System, they show the number of days since a record-high temperature in hundreds of U.S. ci… | Continue reading
Millions of Ukrainians (over three million as of this writing) have left their homes for other countries in a relatively short period of time. Sara Chodosh, Zach Levitt and Gus Wezerek for NYT Opin… | Continue reading
Higher income usually means more childcare, and lower income usually means less.Tags: childcare | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam, Youjin Shin and Alyssa Fowers plotted the value of imports to Russia by country and whether that country has imposed sanctions or not. The bumpy alluvial di… | Continue reading
For NYT’s The Upshot, Bianca Pallaro and Alicia Parlapiano break down the United States’ $13.6 billion in emergency spending to help Ukraine against Russia. They start with an overview … | Continue reading
Changing the clocks twice a year can be a hassle, so some people in the United States want to permanently keep Daylight Saving Time. However, that also means some areas in the country end up with l… | Continue reading
Eventually you gotta make the charts for yourself and not for some expert's approval.Tags: learning, rules | Continue reading
For FiveThirtyEight, Anna Wiederkehr and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, with illustrations by Nicole Rifkin, delve into the varying restrictions in each state. Laws based on fetus viability, distance to c… | Continue reading
While the reshaped geography doesn't work all the time, the use of size to show data can be more intuitive in some cases.Tags: R | Continue reading
Population.io by World Data Lab asks your birthday, country of residence, and gender. It spits out tidbits comparing your age to the rest of the world population, such as how old you are compared t… | Continue reading
NameGrapher is an interactive chart that lets you explore historical trends for baby names in the United States. Search for a name, and the chart updates as you enter more letters. The chart is fro… | Continue reading
There was a time not that long ago when a hundred covid deaths seemed like a lot, but now the United States is getting closer to one million deaths with over a thousand deaths per day. The country … | Continue reading
To broadly show how people have lived in the U.S. during these past two years, The Washington Post shows percentages for various questions, such as “Have you had long covid?” and “… | Continue reading
I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, but there’s this game called Wordle. You get a certain number of guesses to figure out a five-letter word each day. Apparently a lot of people … | Continue reading
Thinking about the tiny steps along the way to making a chart, even a relatively straightforward one.Tags: exploration | Continue reading
Inflation is high. For NYT’s The Upshot, Emily Badger, Aatish Bhatia and Quoctrung Bui busted out the word cloud to show the price increases people noticed in February. As you might expect, t… | Continue reading
In an effort to make gender inequalities more obvious, World Bank updated their Gender Data Portal: The World Bank Group has redesigned its Gender Data Portal with these audiences in mind by offeri… | Continue reading
I looked at the percentages of people with a given number of kids in the family and the order they were born. | Continue reading
When you look inside the cities around the world, you will often find familiarity to where you live. For The Washington Post, Bonnie Berkowitz, Dylan Moriarty and Hannah Dormido look for the famili… | Continue reading
For Our World in Data, Max Roser discusses the risk and possible destruction of nuclear war, along with suggestions on how to reduce that risk: An escalating conflict between nuclear powers – but a… | Continue reading
The prices of everything seem to be rising a lot lately. Why? For Vox, Emily Stewart uses eggs as a case study to explain: “There are different ways of thinking about the inflation issue, and econo… | Continue reading
As you would imagine, Ukrainian airspace looks empty right now. Reuters mapped flights before the Russian invasion, the day of, and after the European Union airspace ban. The above shows private, c… | Continue reading
Home prices in the U.S. increased dramatically over the past couple of years. The percentage of home purchases by investors rather than future home owners also increased. For The Washington Post, K… | Continue reading
For The Markup, continuing their reports on data privacy, Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan discuss the non-regulation of the location data industry: Without government regulation, the current approach from… | Continue reading
Connecting back to the real world is how we fill in the gaps. | Continue reading
The Media Manipulation Casebook summarizes how bad-intentioned people take media from past events, movies, and video games and shove the bits into a different context to fill a different purpose: P… | Continue reading
It’s easy for anyone to grab a picture or video and claim that it shows something that it doesn’t. This is problematic during times of conflict, when accuracy is especially important. F… | Continue reading
As a way to explore how people use questions in their writing, a straightforward tool by Clive Thompson lets you see all the questions in a body of text. Just copy and paste and you’re set. T… | Continue reading
RealLifeLore explains the history between the two countries and the multi-faceted motivations behind the invasion. As you might expect, the reasons are complex and full of unknowns. | Continue reading
Correctiv is tracking sanctions against Russian individuals and companies, based on data from OpenSanctions. | Continue reading