To combat cheating during online exams, many schools have utilized services that try to detect unusual behavior through webcam video. As with most automated surveillance systems, there are some iss… | Continue reading
When every day feels like more of the same, here are some of the things I do to shake off the monotony. | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Denise Lu and Karen Yourish looked at the red and blue shifts for the counties that voted red in 2016: President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the popular vote by more than … | Continue reading
Marimekko charts, or mosaic plots, allow you to compare categories over two quantitative variables. | Continue reading
D3.js, a flexible JavaScript library useful for visualization, can feel intimidating at first. It does a lot. So Ian Johnson gave a talk on what the library provides, along with a tour of the essen… | Continue reading
tixy.land is a minimalist coding environment by Martin Kleppe: Control the size and color of a 16×16 dot matrix with a single JavaScript function. The input is limited to 32 characters – but n… | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, Ashlyn Still and Ted Mellnik show the shifts in the 2020 election compared against the 2012 and 2016 elections. Good use of swooping arrows. | Continue reading
The microCOVID Project provides a calculator that lets you put in where you are and various activities to estimate your risk: This is a project to quantitatively estimate the COVID risk to you from… | Continue reading
The Washington Post goes with a wind metaphor to show the change in voting activity between 2016 and 2020. The up and down direction represents change in turnout, and the left and right direction r… | Continue reading
Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us. Even when we know what is actually happening, our visual system won’t let us see the reality. Michael Bach has an extensive collection of 141 optical ill… | Continue reading
As I’m sure you know, it was Election Day on Tuesday here in the United States. I told myself that I wouldn’t watch the results roll in, because the record number of mail-in ballots wou… | Continue reading
Meanwhile… based on estimates from The COVID Tracking Project, the United States had an all-time high for daily counts yesterday, at 103,087. And 1,116 people died. | Continue reading
Still waiting for those results? Bloomberg’s election page for each state shows the estimated range of votes counted so far. Really like the dual encoding with the shaded gradient and line. F… | Continue reading
As we wait for the votes to be counted in the remaining states, here are a couple of interactives to test the possibilities. The New York Times updated their graphic on all possible paths to the Wh… | Continue reading
The NYT election needles of uncertainty are back, and they’re about to go live (if they haven’t already). I’m not watching, but in case that’s your thing, there you go. It&#… | Continue reading
If you want to color in your own electoral map at home, The Washington Post provides this blank, printable page. I hear coloring is soothing or something like that. [via @SethBlanchard] | Continue reading
I’ve been distracted lately, so instead of making regular charts, I’ve been making animated GIFs using various visual encodings. It hits the sweet spot of producing something without ha… | Continue reading
It’s election day here in the United States, but millions of votes have already been mailed or dropped off. In some states, the number of early votes already surpassed the total in 2016. The … | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Betsy Mason outlines the design challenges behind election maps. Do you show geography? Do you focus on scale? What colors should you use? For every choice, there’s always tr… | Continue reading
Federal judge appointments are for a lifetime, so the younger a judge is appointed, the more potential years they can serve. For ProPublica, Moiz Syed charted age, time of appointment, and average … | Continue reading
Masks are effective in slowing down the spread of the coronavirus. The New York Times zoomed in at the particle level to show how masks do this. | Continue reading
With this simple choropleth map, Lauren Leatherby for The New York Times shows where coronavirus cases peaked in the past month or week. It appears the United States still has a way to go: With cas… | Continue reading
FiveThirtyEight and The Economist take similar inputs but output different forecasts. Adam Pearce was curious about how the state-by-state correlations differed between the two models: Outside of t… | Continue reading
Here’s the good stuff for October. | Continue reading
Risk of coronavirus infection changes depending on the amount of contagious particles you breathe in. El Pais illustrated the differences when you take certain measures, namely wearing masks, venti… | Continue reading
In Waves of Interest, a collaboration between the Google News Initiative and Truth & Beauty, see the defining search trends of 2020. See trends over time. See trends over geography. See trends… | Continue reading
The way we make electricity in America is changing. For The New York Times, Nadja Popovich and Brad Plumer used ribbon charts, which I think are a NYT staple now, to show the shift between 2001 to … | Continue reading
Dots on a map can feel like, well, just a bunch of dots. Dylan Moriarty zoomed in on the dot of his hometown, making the dot feel more real: The map concept at the top of this piece has been kickin… | Continue reading
As you might expect, early voting volume is high across the country. In many states, one week until election day, the early voting count is already more than half of the total 2016 counts. For The … | Continue reading
The New York Times analyzed campaign finance data from April to October, mapping and charting their results by different segments: The findings paint a portrait of two candidates who are, in many w… | Continue reading
From Kaz Miyamol, these Venn diagrams present very important information about Halloween. | Continue reading
Muir Way updates vintage relief maps with a third dimension. Pretty. The above is a geologic map of the United States, based on a 1932 print. Scott Reinhard made similar maps last year, but Muir Wa… | Continue reading
Look around. Take it in. | Continue reading
Using geometric shapes as an encoding can provide another dimension to your charts. | Continue reading
This is some advanced mapping and scrollytelling from the Washington Post. The piece examines climate change in the context of the fires in the western United States. Starting in the beginning of A… | Continue reading
While we’re on the topic of election scenarios, Kerry Rodden provides a radial decision tree to show possible outcomes. Select paths or specify state wins to see what might happen. It’s… | Continue reading
With each model update, FiveThirtyEight runs 40,000 simulations, or what-ifs, to calculate the odds for who will win the election. Their new interactive lets you experiment with all of the what-ifs… | Continue reading
If you can make maps in your software and customize the aesthetics, you can make map art. Esteban Moro outlined how he made a personalized map in R: For my map art, I wanted to create something mor… | Continue reading
For FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver provides tips to stay less stressed staring into the darkness known at election forecasts: This is perhaps the single piece of advice we give most often at FiveThir… | Continue reading
In their second issue, Parametric Press focuses on climate change with a set of interactive data essays: The articles explore the gamut of our climate’s past, present, and future, exploring not onl… | Continue reading
Virtual reality puts you in a digital world that can feel like a real world when it’s done right. Research from Benjamin Lee, et al. explored some of the possibilities in work they’re c… | Continue reading
It’s been smoky this season. Based on research from Michael Goss et al., Al Shaw and Elizabeth Weil for ProPublica look at the current fire situation in California and what that might mean fo… | Continue reading
Using estimates from a report by the Well Being Trust and the Robert Graham Center, Periscopic shows projected deaths of despair in Lifelines. Lights, each representing a life, float above the wate… | Continue reading
A row limit in Microsoft Excel led to an undercount of Covid-19 cases in the thousands. The root of the problem goes past the software though. | Continue reading
From Dan Goodspeed, the bar chart race is back. The length of the bars represents Covid-19 case rates per state, and color represents partisanship. The animation currently starts on June 1 and runs… | Continue reading
The Gartner hype cycle is a graphical representation of where certain technologies are at in terms of expectations and productivity. It’s abstract and qualitative. But Mark Mine looked at 25 … | Continue reading
Someone mentioned that $400,000+ per year was commonplace in American households. That seemed like an odd comment. | Continue reading
In 1966, artist Ed Ruscha published Every Building on the Sunset Strip, which was a stiched collection of photos taken while driving along Sunset Boulevard. Ruscha continued to take pictures over t… | Continue reading