Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area chart to show the difference between two mortality rates. Each dot represents 10 people, and they start as a random clou… | Continue reading
You might have heard that Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity. More than some countries. You might have wondered how that could be possible. The New York Times explains with a set of graphics and ill… | Continue reading
We had to do more from home. Here’s how much everything shifted by total minutes in a day. | Continue reading
Bar charts are the simple answer. Maybe you’re not looking for simple though. | Continue reading
After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans experienced power outages. The NASA Earth Observatory show the outages by comparing night lights on August 31, 2021 against night lights on August 9, 2021: VIIRS ha… | Continue reading
How Humans Judge Machines is an academic publication covering the results of experiments on how humans judge machines. The digital version is free, or you can purchase a print version. How Humans J… | Continue reading
Wildfires continue to burn in the western United States. The New York Times provides a tracker showing the ones burning now, along with air quality and a smoke forecast. A couple of weeks ago, it s… | Continue reading
Noah Veltman fed an AI movie descriptions and made it generate images. The results are in quiz form so that you can guess the movies. I would give myself a poor rating for guessing the movies, but … | Continue reading
Chris Yu, Henrik Schumacher, and Keenan Crane from Carnegie Mellon University are working on repulsive curves, which is a method to efficiently unravel curves so that they don’t overlap: Curv… | Continue reading
Matt Henderson on Numberphile shows off a “lightning algorithm” which is actually a maze-solving algorithm that shows the solution at the end. Come for the demo at the beginning but sta… | Continue reading
Here’s the good stuff for August. | Continue reading
This is a 24-hour snapshot for a day in the life of Americans. | Continue reading
For their 5 Levels series, Wired brought in Hilary Mason to explain machine learning at five levels of difficulty. Mason’s explanations are super helpful at every level. | Continue reading
Robert Gebeloff, Denise Lu and Miriam Jordan for The New York Times looked at overall increases and variation within the Asian population: North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, North Carolina and Indi… | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Josh Bivens and Stuart A. Thompson argue that you don’t need to panic about inflation: It may surprise many Americans that even during times of strong growth and very low inf… | Continue reading
With professional basketball, we often hear about carry jobs. There’s one star player who carries everyone else to a championship. Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding looked for the biggest ca… | Continue reading
It still amazes me that you can give multiple people the same dataset and the results can vary depending on questions, goals, and audience. | Continue reading
After looking at how much time we spent on daily activities in 2020, let’s look at when we spent our time. | Continue reading
Generative art seems to be having a moment right now, so it’s only appropriate that there’s an R package to help you make some. The aRtsy package by Koen Derks makes algorithms more str… | Continue reading
We see percentages for the vaccinated and unvaccinated, and people can easily misinterpret or miscommunicate the results. It’s especially problematic when people are actively trying to confir… | Continue reading
Using unit charts, NPR shows the number of people who identify with each race or ethnicity: [A] different kind of breakdown can show how racial groups are becoming more heterogeneous. This graphic … | Continue reading
CNN goes with the dot density map for their first pass on the 2020 decennial. Each dot represents a certain number of people depending on your zoom level. Color represents race or ethnicity. Does C… | Continue reading
The New York Times go with the angled arrows to show the shifts in racial population. The red-orange arrows show an increase in the share of white population, and the teal arrows show an increase i… | Continue reading
Using their peaks and valleys metaphor, The Washington Post shows the shift in racial population between 2010 and 2020. The open triangles, one for each county, show population with width, populati… | Continue reading
After a lot of angst over the past few years around undercount, representation, and anonymization, the Census Bureau released detailed data from the 2020 decennial census: The U.S. Census Bureau to… | Continue reading
Lingdong Huang’s project fishdraw seems straightforward on the surface. You go to the page and there’s a drawing of a fish. But then you keep clicking the refresh arrow and realize the … | Continue reading
You’re gonna miss out on all the good stuff if you just stare at the middle. | Continue reading
Ranking countries by medal count change depending on how much value you place on each medal. Should you just count number of medals straight up, or should you give more weight for gold than for sil… | Continue reading
Adjust coordinates, geometries, and encodings with packed circles to make various types of charts. | Continue reading
Zach Levitt and Jess Eng for The Washington Post mapped newly developed areas in the contiguous United States, between 2001 and 2019: Between 2001 and 2019, the built-up landscape of America — buil… | Continue reading
Most people are familiar with the file-and-folder view. Sort alphabetically, date, or file type, and scroll up and down. This works well when you know what you’re looking for, but sometimes y… | Continue reading
With the 2020 Olympics wrapped up, The New York Times raced this year’s medal winners against previous medalists to provide context for the new records set in Tokyo. The simplified style of t… | Continue reading
Bonnie Berkowitz and Artur Galocha go with the strip plot to show the distribution of age for different Olympic events. If it’s longevity you’re looking for, go for the equestrian, sail… | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal tested out the TikTok algorithm with bots to see how quickly the app converged towards a user’s pre-specified interests. As viewing time of videos as the main signal, … | Continue reading
Set a strong base, and build whatever you want after that. | Continue reading
From The New York Times, the combination of video, motion graphics, and charts, packaged tightly in a scrollytelling format, clearly shows the differences. | Continue reading
Gerrymandering continues to be an important thread that I think many people still don’t understand, mostly because it’s called gerrymandering. The Guardian provides a visual guide to ex… | Continue reading
Our everyday routines changed over the past year, and with the 2020 American Time Use Survey, we can see by how much. | Continue reading
Elian Peltier and Josh Holder for The New York Times highlight the vaccination rates increasing in Europe while the United States rate stalls: Europe has plenty of people who distrust the shots and… | Continue reading
Aatish Bhatia and Quoctrung Bui for NYT’s The Upshot made the comparison using a circular Voronoi treemap. The fills flip between the original plan from March and the recently proposed plan, … | Continue reading
Here’s the good stuff for July. | Continue reading
Researchers asked 10,000 participants to list ten things that recently made them happy. I counted and connected the dots. | Continue reading
Joshua Barbeau fed an AI chatbot with old texts from his fiancee who had died years before, so that he could talk to her again. Jason Fagone for the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about Barbeau̵… | Continue reading
Ben Casselman and Ella Koeze for The New York Times compared time use in 2020 against time use in 2019, among different demographic groups. As we know, the pandemic affected everyone differently. T… | Continue reading
We’re all familiar with the Covid-19 line charts that show cases over time, which highlights absolute counts. There are peaks. There are some valleys. Emory Parker for STAT shifted the focus … | Continue reading
The Bloomberg medal tracker is fun to look at. I think the graphics desk was instructed to use as many new-ish chart types as they could without alienating readers: the streamgraph, force-directed … | Continue reading
The New York Times charted speed ranks during the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay. My favorite part is how they got the data, which wasn’t available, so they estimated through photos and t… | Continue reading
The 2020 Summer Olympics are here, so ’tis the season for experimental visual explainers. The Washington Post uses a combination of illustration, video, and augmented reality to show off thre… | Continue reading