Which campaign people donate more, by ZIP code

Using a combination of Federal Election Commission filings and voter registration, the Washington… Tags: donors, election, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 29 days ago

✚ Translating Visualization Steps

This week we imagine what we would do if the tool we relied on the most were to disappear. Tags: analysis, tools | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Micro-communities that might decide the election

For NYT Opinion, Patrick Ruffini, with graphics by Quoctrung Bui and Aileen Clarke,… Tags: election, New York Times, swing states | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Make the Chart: Precipitation Map as Animated GIF

Weather. Data. Map. Animation. They go well together to show sudden changes over time. Tags: animation, ImageMagick, R | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Abortion mazes to represent the complexity of abortion access

Speaking of grid maps and abortion access, Jan Diehm and Michelle Pera-McGhee, for… Tags: abortion, maze, Pudding, puzzle | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Legality of abortion pills in each state

For the Washington Post, N. Kirkpatrick and Szu Yu Chen describe the legality… Tags: abortion, medicine, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Visual explainer for the thrilling game of Crokinole

From Russell Samora for The Pudding, “Crokinole is like a mashup of shuffleboard… Tags: Crokinole, game, Pudding, Russell Samora | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

How Americans vote in each state

Some states have almost completely moved to voting by mail or early voting,… Tags: voting, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Color Buddy, a tool for building color palettes for visualization

Picking colors for visualization can be tricky, because there are infinite possibilities across… Tags: color | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Scale of buildings destroyed in Gaza

Damage assessments from UNOSAT estimate that 66% of structures in Gaza are damaged… Tags: buildings, Gaza, Reuters, scale | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Stats Are for Losers

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


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Scoring climate, conflict, and vulnerability around the world

In an effort to measure and highlight risks globally, the German Federal Foreign… Tags: climate, conflict, index, risk | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Adoption in the States

About 4% of registered light-duty vehicles in the United States are either electric,… Tags: electric vehicle | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Make the Chart: Grid Map with Stacked Areas

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


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Increasing time spent at home

For NYT’s the Upshot, Ronda Kaysen and Alicia Parlapiano highlight analysis by Patrick… Tags: home, time use, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Presidential campaign target states, since 1952

We mostly hear about a handful of swing states these days, as presidential… Tags: campaign, election, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Presidential election still a toss-up

You’re probably going to see election forecasts more this month, and one candidate… Tags: election, Nate Silver, probability, uncertainty | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Election of random chance

For The New Yorker, Jay Caspian Kang relates the election’s unwavering randomness to… Tags: election, gambling, New Yorker, random, uncertainty | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

UK party gains and winners

Speaking of Conservatives losing, Andre Tartar and Demetrios Pogkas for Bloomberg show the… Tags: Bloomberg, election | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 months ago

Conservatives lose UK election by a lot

For the New York Times, Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby show how the… Tags: elections, loss, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 months ago

Visually navigate code as stars and galaxies

Andrei Kashcha visualized major software packages as galaxies that you can fly through.… Tags: Andrei Kashcha, code, galaxies | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 months ago

Seeing the world after Google Streetview

Trevor Rainbolt is really good at geolocating a place given a single frame… Tags: Google Streetview, New York Times, Trevor Rainbolt | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 months ago

FlowingData at 17

Last week marked 17 years running this small corner of the internet on… Tags: birthday | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 months ago

Shrinking down to the size of an atom

In a different take on showing the scale of very tiny things, Epic… Tags: Epic Spaceman, scale, small | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 months ago

Age differences between world leaders and the populations they serve

The ages of American presidential candidates are old when compared to the ages… Tags: age, government, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 months ago

Estimating Covid deaths

It’s impossible to know the exact number of Covid deaths worldwide, because consistent… Tags: coronavirus, counting, estimation, Howtown | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 months ago

✚ Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, June 2024 Roundup

Here is the good stuff for the month. Tags: roundup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 months ago

Searching for the hardest and easiest Spelling Bee puzzels

Christopher Wolfram explains his “unnecessarily detailed analysis” of the spelling game from the… Tags: Christopher Wolfram, game, Spelling Bee | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 months ago

Decade-Long Battle for “Yogurt” vs. “Yoghurt” on Wikipedia

After years of enthusiastic discussions, editors eventually and begrudgingly came to a conclusion. Tags: spelling, Wikipedia, yogurt | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Changing climate zones of major cities

A global map of climate change can make a few degrees of rising… Tags: climate, Derek Taylor, global warming, Pudding | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Trendy baby name sounds

For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura… Tags: names, trends, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Where State Farm Insurance is dropping home policies

State Farm won’t be renewing about 30,000 policies because of high wildfire and… Tags: insurance, San Francisco Chronicle, State Farm | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

✚ Games to Explore Data and Possibilities

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


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Perplexity is probably stealing content

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman provide evidence that Perplexity, an AI-based… Tags: AI, ethics, ownership, Perplexity, Wired | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

AI-generated email from a friend

Neven Mrgan describes what it was like to get an AI-generated email from… Tags: AI, email, Neven Mrgan | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Heat tracker for the U.S.

It’s abnormally hot in a large portion of the United States, and it’s… Tags: heat, New York Times, warning | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Older or Younger than the Population

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


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Analysis of Sudoku play patterns

Vivek Rao likes to play Sudoku, enough that he collected data on his… Tags: game, Sudoku, Vivek Rao | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe

Thinking about life and randomness, Cameron Sun modified the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe.… Tags: Cameron Sun, game, probability | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

✚ Towards Unfamiliar Data Representation

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


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Occupation and Salary Rankings, Each Decade Since 1970

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


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Mapping hurricane winds with avocado of uncertainty

Stamen, whose design breakdowns I always appreciate, discusses why they took a different… Tags: Stamen, uncertainty, wind | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Visualizing GitHub commit history in a 3-D virtual space

Ren Yuan visualized the GitHub commit history for the PyTorch library. The virtual… Tags: 3-d, GitHub, Ren Yuan, sonification | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Hockey player tracking projected on ice for live watch party

During the Dallas Stars away games during this year’s NHL playoffs, fans could… Tags: hockey, motion tracking, physical, SMT, sports | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Dr Pepper ties with Pepsi-Cola for number two soda

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


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

✚ Chart Options to Cut Through the Noise and See Patterns

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


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

About a dog

For NYT, Sam Anderson, with illustrations by Gaia Alari, tells the story of… Tags: dogs, New York Times, pets, storytelling | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago

Currently, a light display that shows where your energy is from

Currently is a prototype ambient display that shows where your energy comes from.… Tags: energy, light, Universal Everything | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 months ago