The Painted Ladies houses, which includes the house from the 1990s sitcom Full… Tags: Painted Ladies, San Francisco Chronicle, taxes | Continue reading
A Wheel of Fortune contestant employed strategies outlined in a NYT Upshot analysis… Tags: Scott Menke, Upshot, Wheel of Fortune | Continue reading
There might be times when you want to visualize data with area, but… Tags: area, Krisztina Szűcs | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for the month. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
I had a chat with Jon Schwabish on The PolicyViz Podcast. We talked… Tags: Jon Schwabish, podcast, PolicyViz | Continue reading
Teresa Ibarra used Facebook Messenger to text with her now ex-boyfriend almost a… Tags: relationships, Teresa Ibarra, texting | Continue reading
The second edition of Visualize This is published. The book made its way… Tags: learning, publishing, writing | Continue reading
Last week, a Singapore Airlines flight experienced turbulence that led to one person… Tags: flights, Reuters, Singapore Airlines, turbulence | Continue reading
YouGov surveyed 2,000 adults asking them when was the best and worst decades… Tags: great, nostalgia, Washington Post, YouGov | Continue reading
In case you need a large dataset to train your chatbot — and… Tags: ChatGPT, WildChat | Continue reading
To keep track of performance, Matt Stiles made the Dodgers Data Bot, which… Tags: baseball, dashboard, Dodgers, Matt Stiles | Continue reading
Reading the words of my younger self and revisiting that guy's process was... educational. Tags: book, writing | Continue reading
The recent solar storms brought pretty lights to the night sky in some… Tags: Bloomberg, energy, solar, storm | Continue reading
I don’t know about you, but where I live, the housing prices keep… Tags: cost, housing, Washington Post | Continue reading
Visualize This is a real book now! The official publication date is May… Tags: published | Continue reading
Wilson Lin used an abstract map to visualize 40 million posts and comments… Tags: Hacker News, Wilson Lin | Continue reading
Assuming you were still alive flying into a black hole, NASA’s Goddard Space… Tags: black hole, NASA, space | Continue reading
There are a lot of tools to visualize data. Some are visualization-specific. Some are tools that let you make charts but are focused on other data things. New apps come out with new features that promise new things. This can make it tricky to find the best visualization tool. Tag … | Continue reading
To capture solar energy for use in the evening, batteries have grown in… Tags: batteries, electricity, New York Times | Continue reading
When you analyze data, there are times when a trend, pattern, or outlier jumps out and smacks you in the face. Or, you might calculate results that seem surprising. Maybe they're real, but maybe not. Tags: analysis, error, questions | Continue reading
Imagine that you try to do something and there's a 20% chance of success. If you try to do the thing six times, what is the probability that you succeed at least once? Tags: Andrew Huberman, binomial, probability, simulation | Continue reading
Based on data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Villanova University… Tags: magnetic fields, Milky Way, NASA, Strange Maps | Continue reading
PerThirtySix made a communal plot that asks for your opinion via scatterplot and… Tags: PerThirtySix, sharing, social | Continue reading
From the oldie-but-goodie department, this fun program uses a genetic algorithm to drive… Tags: algorithm, optimization | Continue reading
For Reuters, Mariano Zafra, Anurag Rao, and Jon McClure describe how bird flu… Tags: bird flu, Reuters | Continue reading
We get 24 hours in a day. How do we spend this time? How does our time use change as we get older and priorities shift? Tags: age, time use | Continue reading
Maybe one day AI tools will be advanced enough to process a random dataset and produce valuable insights that incorporate the context of the real world. That day is not today. Tags: AI, generative, mashup | Continue reading
Stephen Wolfram gets into modeling biological evolution: Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work? Both are examples of adaptive processes that surpr… | Continue reading
You might’ve heard a little something about AI these past few months. If… Tags: AI, ethics, Hack Club, Nicky Case | Continue reading
It’s been over 200 years since the cicadas of Brood XIII and Brood… Tags: Cicada, New York Times | Continue reading
The cicadas are coming. This year is unique, because there are two broods… Tags: Cicada, CNN | Continue reading
Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, set out to plant and conserve 1… Tags: Bloomberg, Marc Benioff, scale, trees | Continue reading
The TikTok account Globetrots combines Google Earth and text-to-speech to show top-ten lists… Tags: AI, generative, listicle, storytelling, TikTok | Continue reading
In our younger years, we have school and more important things to do, but then we get older and there are bills to pay. Tags: time use, work | Continue reading
Knowing what's next can help you work through a tedious step, because you know it'll be worth it. Tags: steps | Continue reading
A deeply insightful map from xkcd. See also: 19 maps that will blow… Tags: humor, xkcd | Continue reading
Based on estimates from the Crowd Counting Consortium, the Washington Post shows the… Tags: college, protest, Washington Post | Continue reading
Reddit user ChangsManagement mapped where NHL hockey players were born, based on data… Tags: birth, NHL | Continue reading
Daniel Shiffman, who you might know from his enthusiastic YouTube channel The Coding… Tags: Daniel Shiffman | Continue reading
The Pudding ran an experiment that asked people to trace a shape. They… Tags: drawing, Pudding | Continue reading
Hong Kong banned single-use plastics often used for food takeaway containers. For South… Tags: garbage, plastic, scale, South China Morning Post | Continue reading
Here are the useful tools and resources that came out of April. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
The Marshall Project highlights research on excess mortality in U.S. prisons: The slowdown… Tags: Marshall Project, mortality, pandemic | Continue reading
Sleepy time varies as responsibilities shift. Tags: sleep, time use | Continue reading
One of the challenges of understanding the weight of climate change is that… Tags: climate change, future, Tardigrade | Continue reading
Using a series of graphics, Reuters explains Israel’s defense against rockets, also known… Tags: defense, Israel, missile, Reuters | Continue reading
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing… Tags: mortgage, Upshot | Continue reading
Small changes over time or small differences between categories can easily look insignificant, even if they're worth noting in real life. Here are chart options for you. Tags: change, difference, small | Continue reading