If you use color as a visual encoding, you should make sure every one can actually see the differences in your scale. The cols4All package from Martijn Tennekes can help by ranking and categorizing… | Continue reading
Many countries have banned Russian aircraft from entering their airspace. Russian in turn has banned other countries. For Bloomberg, Mira Rojanasakul and Jin Wu mapped current bans and showed how f… | Continue reading
In the 1970s, the most common household type in the U.S. was a married couple with kids. Things are different now. | Continue reading
As we know by now, conservatives in the U.S. are more commonly against getting vaccinated for Covid, but it wasn’t always like that. Vox shows how ideas shifted to get to where we are now. Th… | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Jackie Gu look at the current state of the fast fashion industry, which uses petroleum-derived polyester in most of the clothing: Almost every piece of clothing we… | Continue reading
Here’s the good stuff for February. | Continue reading
For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia, Josh Katz and Margot Sanger-Katz show the full distribution of expected snowfall in your area instead of just the middle: The range can be wide. That’s be… | Continue reading
There are many maps trying to show what is happening in Ukraine right now. Lisa Charlotte Muth is keeping a running thread. | Continue reading
This map by Steven Bernard for Financial Times shows a timeline of Russian military presence. The gray squares represent a presence as of February 20, red diamonds represent a presence four days la… | Continue reading
For Wired, stat professor Jeffrey Rosenthal answered statistics questions from Twitter, such as how likely it is you win the lottery, why election polls seem wrong all the time, and how statistical… | Continue reading
For The Pudding, Rebecca Monteleone and Jamie Brew (with design and code by Michelle McGhee) describe the advantages of more readable writing and how we measure readability. The best part is that t… | Continue reading
Baby names gain sudden popularity for various reasons. See how it’s changed over the years. | Continue reading
Sometimes being unprofessional works to your advantage when communicating data. | Continue reading
Speaking of Russian gas, Josh Holder, Karl Russell and Stanley Reed for The New York Times mapped gas exports from Russia to E.U. countries. NYT used Sankey flows where thicker lines mean more gas,… | Continue reading
For Reuters, Prasanta Kumar Dutta, Samuel Granados and Michael Ovaska detail Europe’s dependence on Russia’s gas supplies and the crisis in Ukraine: With its abundant gas reserves, the … | Continue reading
Traffic always seems so sensitive to the smallest disruptions. Someone pulls over to the side of the road? Traffic jam. Slight incline on the freeway? Traffic jam. One person weaving in and out of … | Continue reading
If you watched the men’s halfpipe in the Olympics, you were probably impressed by Ayumu Hirano’s tricks. But it can be hard to see what he actually does in real-time, other than flying … | Continue reading
To decide who’s doing best at the Olympics you have to define what “best” means. Do you go by total medal count? Do you give more weight to gold medals over silver and bronze? Jos… | Continue reading
The Athletic charted territories on the field to show whether the team of interest or their opponents get more touches. I only understand about half of the words in this post, but I appreciate the … | Continue reading
It’s a wide range, based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics. | Continue reading
Think of the redundancies as reinforcement for a clearer signal. | Continue reading
Between 1849 and 1851, J.G. Heck published a 10-part encyclopedia called Iconographic Encyclopædia covering a wide range of topics in science and art. Nicholas Rougeux, who likes to web-ify old wor… | Continue reading
In the 1930s, a group called the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation went to cities classifying neighborhoods based on the “risk” of defaulting on loans. Areas deemed highest risk were … | Continue reading
Same vibes pic.twitter.com/oXjhdwS3yW— Matt Blackwell (@matt_blackwell) February 7, 2022 This is a good tweet. | Continue reading
Use color to reinforce or add another layer of meaning to a regular line chart. | Continue reading
Figure skater Nathan Chen set a world record with his performance in the short program. The New York Times has these cute animations to show the completed jumps. Just spinning around four times in … | Continue reading
Gas-powered vehicles contribute a big part of total carbon production, so to get to carbon neutral, it’s essential that electrical vehicles eventually replace what’s on the road now. Fo… | Continue reading
Walk into a boba shop and usually you’ll see a large menu that lists the options for your tea, milk, toppings, ice, and sweetness. With all the variations, you get a lot of combinations. Juli… | Continue reading
For FiveThirtyEight, Simran Parwani and Kaleigh Rogers compared Groundhog Day predictions against actual weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: After dozens of gruel… | Continue reading
The White House posted a chart with a messed up y-axis. Intentional or no? | Continue reading
The two counts have been getting closer to each other. The past couple of years accelerated the process. | Continue reading
Tom Brady announced his retirement from the National Football League, which ends a long career that stands out from the rest. As required by law, when it comes to sports records over time, The Upsh… | Continue reading
Crisis Text Line was sharing data with a for-profit business started by its founder. Given the sensitivity and nature of the data, this relationship understandably seemed questionable at best. Dana… | Continue reading
One of the attractions of crypto is that values can swing into the positive over a short period of time. Of course, that means values can also suddenly dip. Emily Flitter and Karl Russell for The N… | Continue reading
Adrian Blanco for The Washington Post used squares connected at the corners to compare federal judge confirmations across presidencies. Each square represents a demographic, which is sized by numbe… | Continue reading
Ella Koeze, Denise Lu, and Charlie Smart for The New York Times made a game to help you understand gerrymandering better. They created a fake territory called Hexapolis, and your mission, if you ch… | Continue reading
Tennis player Novak Djokovic is not vaccinated against the coronavirus, and as a result, was not allowed to compete in the Australian Open. Data collated by the BBC suggests that Djokovic lied abou… | Continue reading
Eggs aren’t always white, which is oddly calming in this photo. (I couldn’t figure out where this picture was originally from. Anyone?) | Continue reading
Here’s the good stuff for January. | Continue reading
When it comes to diet and health, you might see one day that a certain food decreases life expectancy. Then on another day, a different study suggests that food increases life expectancy. It’… | Continue reading
Median income only tells you where the middle is. The distributions of income are a lot more interesting. | Continue reading
A more readable alternative to Venn diagrams for when you have more than a few sets. | Continue reading
In case you’re not so good with the words, but feel the social pressure to play Wordle bearing down on you, Jonathan Olson made an optimized solver: The game Wordle has a lot of speculation o… | Continue reading
Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr used satellite imagery to show the scale of the Tonga eruption, which spurted a 24-mile cloud that grew to 400 miles in diameter in an hour. Notice the little Manhattan… | Continue reading
In efforts to reduce further spread of the virus, the US is set to distribute millions of free N95 masks across the country. Aaron Steckelberg and Bonnie Berkowitz for The Washington Post illustrat… | Continue reading
In an automated job climate that analyzes resumes and inspects social profiles, it can be a challenge to find the job that’s right for you. Luckily, Jess Peter for The Pudding put together a … | Continue reading
Thinking about the differences between boring charts and not so boring charts. | Continue reading
The number of births per month has been decreasing over the past decade. The pandemic seems to have sped up the process in the beginning. | Continue reading