The Census Bureau announced their state population totals, so we can see who gained and lost seats: The tables aren’t accessible yet, but during the live conference, the bureau noted that the… | Continue reading
The 2020 Census count at the state level is set for release this afternoon, April 26 at 12pm PST. While we wait, Gregory Korte and Allison McCartney, reporting for Bloomberg, show which states are … | Continue reading
In another look at migration through the lens of USPS change of address data, Bloomberg CityLab shows where people moved during the pandemic, focusing on movement in and out of metro areas. With th… | Continue reading
Oftentimes visuals generated through code can seem cold and mechanical when you’re after something more warm that breathes life. Introducing organized noise into the mix is one path. Varun Va… | Continue reading
Riffing on the Ever Given Ever Ywhere, which lets you place the Ever Given container ship anywhere on a map, Stamen built Scale-a-Tron, which lets you place anywhere on a map, well, anywhere on a m… | Continue reading
In analysis and visualization, you’re often tasked with the “compared to what” question. Your approach will change the perspective. | Continue reading
Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding, for NYT Opinion, look at how the structure of songs have changed to fit with the current methods that people consume media: It’s inescapable that today’s aspiring ar… | Continue reading
Steven Bernard for Financial Times, in a report by Claire Bushey and Steff Chavez, mapped net inflows (paywalled), based on property searches on home listing site Redfin. This shows a slightly diff… | Continue reading
This past year has seen a rising interest in long-lost hobbies due to shelter-in-place, social distancing, and lockdown orders. Google Trends and Polygraph charted the hobbies that saw the biggest … | Continue reading
With the restrictions of the pandemic, you might expect an unusually big wave of people leaving cities for more open space. Using USPS’s change of address data, Jed Kolko, Emily Badger and Qu… | Continue reading
Researchers from NVIDIA and Cornell University made GANcraft: GANcraft aims at solving the world-to-world translation problem. Given a semantically labeled block world such as those from the popula… | Continue reading
Danielle Ivory, Lauren Leatherby and Robert Gebeloff for The New York looked at voting from the 2020 election and vaccination rates at the state and county levels. The strength of correlation is su… | Continue reading
The CDC says it’s safe to travel now if you’re vaccinated, so you may or may not want to see this, but The New York Times shows how air particles circulate through an airplane. | Continue reading
Mel Dollison and Liza Daly made a fun interactive that lets you upload an image, and it spits out a vintage-looking color analysis a la Vanderpoel: This generator is based on the works of Emily Noy… | Continue reading
Quoctrung Bui and Sarah Kliff for NYT’s The Upshot used difference charts to show how current airfare prices are approaching 2019 prices, based on data from travel app Hopper. This seems to i… | Continue reading
Welcome to another edition of me trying to make a graphic look better. | Continue reading
For Politico, Beatrice Jin provides an illustrated guide on stopping a pandemic before it starts. Some scientists suggest going to the source, which often is from interacting with animals, and as y… | Continue reading
Harry Stevens, Tara Bahrampour and Ted Mellnik for The Washington Post look at how the upcoming Census count affects representation in the House. Montana and Rhode Island are projected to gain and … | Continue reading
As the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pauses in the United States, Philip Bump for The Washington Post offers a quick visualization that shows 100 vaccinations per second. A red one appears if ther… | Continue reading
How many times have you made a plot in R and thought, “I wish I could send this as a postcard to my best friend.” Probably a million times, right? Wish no more. The ggirl package (that&… | Continue reading
The Washington Post (paywall) shows the recent rise in domestic terrorism incidents in the United States, based on data compiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In the initia… | Continue reading
Amelia Wattenberger wrote a guide on how you can use the JavaScript library React with D3.js. I know next to nothing about the former, but probably should, so this was useful. | Continue reading
For Wired, Craig Mod writes about how he uses code as a way to find order during less coherent times: Break the problem into pieces. Put them into a to-do app (I use and love Things). This is how a… | Continue reading
Vox explains efficacy rates and why the best vaccine is the one you get now: | Continue reading
Focus on the possibilities instead of all of things you shouldn’t do. | Continue reading
Calculating how much money a kid gets after exchanging all twenty baby teeth. | Continue reading
The New York Times collected, categorized, and linked to reports of anti-Asian hate crimes over the past year. The levels of ignorance, cowardice, and stupidity is off the charts. | Continue reading
Pre-pandemic, we walked around shopping areas casually browsing, but a lot of retail didn’t make it through. For Quartz, Amanda Shendruk looks at the closures on famous shopping streets, comp… | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Kashmir Hill describes the implications of facial recognition becoming a thing that everyone just has: Retail chains that get their hands on technology like this could try t… | Continue reading
An anonymous source supplied BuzzFeed News with usage data from Clearview AI, the facial recognition service that was banned by many police departments nationwide. Many agencies still used and/or t… | Continue reading
Dan Bouk and Danah Boyd wrote an essay on the data infrastructure and politics behind the decennial census: Like all infrastructures, the U.S. decennial census typically lives in the obscurity affo… | Continue reading
The Washington Post illustrated how the Ever Given got stuck and was freed from the Suez Canal. Pulling, digging, and a high tide. All I could think about was the children’s book Little Blue … | Continue reading
Many states use color to represent levels of Covid-19 and/or county restrictions. The color scales states use vary across the country. For The New York Times, Caity Weaver details the usage and the… | Continue reading
For Axios, Will Chase, with illustrations by Brendan Lynch, provides the current status of known variants of the coronavirus. The tracker shows the estimated transmission rate, severity, vaccine ef… | Continue reading
Hi, Welcome to issue #133 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members where we talk about how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I’m trying to reduce the numb… | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Keith Collins and Josh Holder look at the relationship between country wealth and vaccination rates. Wealthier countries made deals with drug makers earlier, which means poo… | Continue reading
As you likely know, there are coronavirus variants around the world. Reuters mapped the spread of the Kent variant, which was detected in the English county of Kent. | Continue reading
When you want to compare between three parts of your data, ternary plots might be a good option. Here is how to make them. | Continue reading
Search history can say a lot of about a person, like where they’re going, where they want to be, what they want to learn about, or what they’re trying to make — at some point in t… | Continue reading
NYT’s The Upshot has a quiz that puts you in a neighborhood via Google Maps images. Who did the neighborhood vote for in the 2020 presidential election? The aggregate of reader results is the… | Continue reading
The Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal. It was refloated. So now you can use this “ridiculous thing” by Garrett Dash Nelson to get the Ever Given stuck anywhere in the world. Show t… | Continue reading
To better understand the challenge of steering a giant container ship through the Suez Canal, CNN made an interactive that lets you do just that. Control the power and point a silhouette of the Eve… | Continue reading
For The Pudding, Ofunne Amaka and Amber Thomas looked at shades, words, and numbers used to describe foundation makeup: A 2020 study investigating the connotations of foundation shade names in 20 p… | Continue reading
yeti dynamics imagined if a giant banana were orbiting Earth from the same distance as the International Space Station: It’s so dumb, which is why it’s so good. And you’re in luck… | Continue reading
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice now has a second edition, updated from the original 2012 edition: The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provi… | Continue reading
Here’s the good stuff for March 2021. | Continue reading
A dollar might not buy you as much in one state as it does in the other. | Continue reading
On a superficial level, color scale selection seems like a straightforward task. Pick a sequence of colors that looks like it goes from light to dark. Done. But right when you get into it, you migh… | Continue reading