Using a combination of Federal Election Commission filings and voter registration, the Washington… Tags: donors, election, Washington Post | Continue reading
This week we imagine what we would do if the tool we relied on the most were to disappear. Tags: analysis, tools | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Patrick Ruffini, with graphics by Quoctrung Bui and Aileen Clarke,… Tags: election, New York Times, swing states | Continue reading
Weather. Data. Map. Animation. They go well together to show sudden changes over time. Tags: animation, ImageMagick, R | Continue reading
Speaking of grid maps and abortion access, Jan Diehm and Michelle Pera-McGhee, for… Tags: abortion, maze, Pudding, puzzle | Continue reading
For the Washington Post, N. Kirkpatrick and Szu Yu Chen describe the legality… Tags: abortion, medicine, Washington Post | Continue reading
From Russell Samora for The Pudding, “Crokinole is like a mashup of shuffleboard… Tags: Crokinole, game, Pudding, Russell Samora | Continue reading
Some states have almost completely moved to voting by mail or early voting,… Tags: voting, Washington Post | Continue reading
Picking colors for visualization can be tricky, because there are infinite possibilities across… Tags: color | Continue reading
Damage assessments from UNOSAT estimate that 66% of structures in Gaza are damaged… Tags: buildings, Gaza, Reuters, scale | Continue reading
This week, I heard that stats are for losers. I had to check it out, because I've always thought stats were for winners. Tags: analysis, sports | Continue reading
In an effort to measure and highlight risks globally, the German Federal Foreign… Tags: climate, conflict, index, risk | Continue reading
About 4% of registered light-duty vehicles in the United States are either electric,… Tags: electric vehicle | Continue reading
Breaking it down to the small steps and choices with data, code, and editing that lead to a finished chart. Tags: Illustrator, R | Continue reading
For NYT’s the Upshot, Ronda Kaysen and Alicia Parlapiano highlight analysis by Patrick… Tags: home, time use, Upshot | Continue reading
We mostly hear about a handful of swing states these days, as presidential… Tags: campaign, election, Washington Post | Continue reading
You’re probably going to see election forecasts more this month, and one candidate… Tags: election, Nate Silver, probability, uncertainty | Continue reading
For The New Yorker, Jay Caspian Kang relates the election’s unwavering randomness to… Tags: election, gambling, New Yorker, random, uncertainty | Continue reading
Speaking of Conservatives losing, Andre Tartar and Demetrios Pogkas for Bloomberg show the… Tags: Bloomberg, election | Continue reading
For the New York Times, Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby show how the… Tags: elections, loss, New York Times | Continue reading
Andrei Kashcha visualized major software packages as galaxies that you can fly through.… Tags: Andrei Kashcha, code, galaxies | Continue reading
Trevor Rainbolt is really good at geolocating a place given a single frame… Tags: Google Streetview, New York Times, Trevor Rainbolt | Continue reading
Last week marked 17 years running this small corner of the internet on… Tags: birthday | Continue reading
In a different take on showing the scale of very tiny things, Epic… Tags: Epic Spaceman, scale, small | Continue reading
The ages of American presidential candidates are old when compared to the ages… Tags: age, government, Washington Post | Continue reading
It’s impossible to know the exact number of Covid deaths worldwide, because consistent… Tags: coronavirus, counting, estimation, Howtown | Continue reading
Here is the good stuff for the month. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Christopher Wolfram explains his “unnecessarily detailed analysis” of the spelling game from the… Tags: Christopher Wolfram, game, Spelling Bee | Continue reading
After years of enthusiastic discussions, editors eventually and begrudgingly came to a conclusion. Tags: spelling, Wikipedia, yogurt | Continue reading
A global map of climate change can make a few degrees of rising… Tags: climate, Derek Taylor, global warming, Pudding | Continue reading
For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura… Tags: names, trends, Washington Post | Continue reading
State Farm won’t be renewing about 30,000 policies because of high wildfire and… Tags: insurance, San Francisco Chronicle, State Farm | Continue reading
Visualization and analysis is usually about minimizing uncertainty to more clearly see patterns. On the other hand, games force you to play through uncertainty. Tags: games, uncertainty | Continue reading
For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman provide evidence that Perplexity, an AI-based… Tags: AI, ethics, ownership, Perplexity, Wired | Continue reading
Neven Mrgan describes what it was like to get an AI-generated email from… Tags: AI, email, Neven Mrgan | Continue reading
It’s abnormally hot in a large portion of the United States, and it’s… Tags: heat, New York Times, warning | Continue reading
As you get older, it might start to feel like everyone is getting younger around you. At what point are you older than the majority? Tags: age, old, young | Continue reading
Vivek Rao likes to play Sudoku, enough that he collected data on his… Tags: game, Sudoku, Vivek Rao | Continue reading
Thinking about life and randomness, Cameron Sun modified the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe.… Tags: Cameron Sun, game, probability | Continue reading
Visualization tends towards familiarity and convenience, which is useful for getting things done and reading data quickly. But the familiar is also less fun and can be stifling. Tags: beginners, possibilities | Continue reading
Job types changed over the years, because there were these things called computers that created occupations and shifted others. How did income change for different jobs, relative to everyone else? Tags: income, rank, work | Continue reading
Stamen, whose design breakdowns I always appreciate, discusses why they took a different… Tags: Stamen, uncertainty, wind | Continue reading
Ren Yuan visualized the GitHub commit history for the PyTorch library. The virtual… Tags: 3-d, GitHub, Ren Yuan, sonification | Continue reading
During the Dallas Stars away games during this year’s NHL playoffs, fans could… Tags: hockey, motion tracking, physical, SMT, sports | Continue reading
Dr Pepper steadily rose and Pepsi steadily declined over the past couple of… Tags: Beverage Digest, Dr Pepper, Pepsi, soda, Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
Sometimes the noise in a dataset makes it hard to see the worthwhile patterns when you visualize it. Here are chart options for you. Tags: noise, options | Continue reading
For NYT, Sam Anderson, with illustrations by Gaia Alari, tells the story of… Tags: dogs, New York Times, pets, storytelling | Continue reading
Currently is a prototype ambient display that shows where your energy comes from.… Tags: energy, light, Universal Everything | Continue reading