For MIT Technology Review, Karen Hao looks into the process of artists Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund to produce a deepfake of Richard Nixon reading an alternate history of the moon landing: … | Continue reading
From a distance, it’s difficult to build an understanding of the scale and nature of protests. A soundbite here. A video clip there. So, to show the Minneapolis protests more completely, The … | Continue reading
FiveThirtyEight publishes win probabilities for NBA games throughout the season. During the playoffs, they show chances of winning each round, and with each game, the probabilities shift. Adam Pear… | Continue reading
For Scientific American, Youyou Zhou made a line chart that shows cause of death in the United States, from 2015 up to present. Covid-19 was the leading cause of death in April and is now sitting a… | Continue reading
For two minutes, a black speck on a white background was all anyone could talk about. | Continue reading
Colour Controversy is a simple game that shows you a shade and asks you what color it is. The fun part is that the shades are usually in between two colors, say blue and green, and you can only cho… | Continue reading
Using a straightforward treemap, The Washington Post looks at where the $4 trillion bailout went. As you scroll, different categories highlight with accompanying text. This is probably the old man … | Continue reading
To visualize uncertainty in election forecasts, Matthew Kay from Northwestern University used a Plinko metaphor. The height of each board is based on the distribution of the forecast, and each ball… | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Ella Koeze looks at the various types of unemployment and how rates changed over the past six months. The piece uses area charts, with a focus on the shape over time. With t… | Continue reading
Microsoft Excel is useful for many things, but it has its limitations (like all software), which led to an undercount of 15,841 Covid-19 positive tests recorded by Public Health England. For the Gu… | Continue reading
The timeline for a new infection isn’t the same for everyone. Some never show any symptoms. Some recover quickly. Some take months to recover. So, for The New York Times, Katherine J. Wu and … | Continue reading
Just looking back at the past eight or nine months of coronavirus posts for no particular reason. Some that stood out: When It Comes to Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly Backward How washing y… | Continue reading
You’ve seen the line charts showing case rates over time. The focus is on trends and whether things are getting better or worse. This piece by Jan Willem Tulp focuses on the current rates wit… | Continue reading
Here’s the good stuff for September 2020. | Continue reading
NPR estimated how many people have experienced unhealthy air this year, largely in part to the wildfires on the west coast: An NPR analysis of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency air quality data … | Continue reading
RJ Andrews, in collaboration with the David Rumsey Map Center, curated a collection of historical data visualization: Data visualization leapt from its Enlightenment origins and into the minds of t… | Continue reading
Heatmaps quickly translate data tables into a visual form, making them a great tool to explore a new dataset. | Continue reading
With wildfires burning in the western United States, smoke fills the air. This is an animation of the air quality during the past couple of months. | Continue reading
The New York Times got a hold of the President’s tax records for the past two decades. They charted the reported gains and losses. It starts with an overview stacked area chart and then scrol… | Continue reading
Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick have a new book out called I am a book. I am a portal to the universe. I’m different to any other book around today. I am not a book of infographics. I’… | Continue reading
With recorded U.S. Covid-19 deaths passing the 200k mark, somehow the number still feels distant for many. The Washington Post, in collaboration with Lupa and the Google News Initiative, brings the… | Continue reading
Mail-in ballots can be rejected if they’re not filled out or mailed correctly. A small percentage of them always are. This year, when we’re talking millions of mail-in ballots, even a s… | Continue reading
Look only at uncertainty and it can feel overwhelming. Look at just averages and it’s not enough information. So, smoosh them together. | Continue reading
Google released a search trends dataset earlier this month. Using this dataset, Adam Pearce made an explorer to compare search volume over time: The COVID-19 Search Trends symptoms dataset shows ag… | Continue reading
The Marshall Project contrasted ad spending on Facebook by Trump’s campaign against Joe Biden’s: Our analysis found that of the $82 million Trump’s reelection campaign has spent o… | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek and Andrew Whitby on what might happen if the count ends on September 30: Times Opinion predicted how many people would remain uncounted on Sept. 30, based on each stat… | Continue reading
When this all started, Covid-19 was impacting large cities at a much higher rate than everywhere else. This straightforward chart from NPR shows how the share of deaths in small and medium cities h… | Continue reading
Companies are tracking what you do online. You know this. But it can be a challenge to know the extent, because the methods are hidden on purpose. So The Markup built Blacklight: To investigate the… | Continue reading
Adam Pearce and Ellen Jiang for Google’s PAIR, explain how granular data can lead to easy identification of individuals and how randomization can help: Aggregate statistics about private info… | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Stuart A. Thompson and Yaryna Serkez mapped the most predominant “climate threat” in each county: This picture of climate threats uses data from Four Twenty Seven, a co… | Continue reading
Smoke from the wildfires made its way to the other side of the country and over the ocean. Using data from NOAA, Reuters animated the smoke clouds over time: With climate change expected to exacerb… | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, Ashlyn Still and Kevin Schaul charted how long it took for primary ballots to be counted in each state. The times might give a hint of what we’re in for on election n… | Continue reading
Welcome to another edition of Misleading or Not, where we decide if a map is misleading or not. | Continue reading
An often painful yet necessary step in visualization is to get your data in the right format. Arquero, from the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab, aims to make this part of the process … | Continue reading
For your analytical perusal, Emil Hvitfeldt provides ten seasons’ worth of scripts from the Friends sitcom in an easy-to-use R package: The goal of friends to provide the complete script tran… | Continue reading
North Drinkware molded Half Dome in the bottom of a hand-blown pint glass using elevation data from the United States Geological Survey. Wow. [via @blprnt] | Continue reading
Bloomberg mapped tree loss between 2000 and 2019 in Brazil: “What we have seen in Brazil is that rainforest protection is a highly political issue,” says Gerlein-Safdi of the University of Michigan… | Continue reading
With mail-in ballots looking to be more common than ever this year, NYT’s The Upshot is tracking the mail: The data here, covering more than 28 million pieces of first-class letters tracked b… | Continue reading
The Washington Post provides another straightforward voting guide, based on where you live and how you plan to vote. Election season is always interesting graphics-wise, because all of the news out… | Continue reading
Reddit user WhiteCheeks used dot density to show population counts of various animals. Each dot represents an animal. So animals with lower counts show less obviously. This is similar to the use of… | Continue reading
Constraints usually seem like a bad thing. Less freedom. You can’t do exactly what you want to do. You’re limited. But sometimes constraints can lead you towards unexpected paths. | Continue reading
The wind was blowing smoke and ash from wildfires further up north from where I live. The sky turned an eerie orange. I wondered about past fires and made the chart below. | Continue reading
The math behind wearing a mask can seem unintuitive at times. Minute Physics and Aatish Bhatia break it down in this illustrated video to show why wearing masks works: The premise is that thereR… | Continue reading
For The Pudding, Ilia Blinderman rounds out his three-part series on creating visual, data-driven essays. This last part in on the fuzziest task of telling stories: Storytelling, however, is much m… | Continue reading
Picking colors for your charts can be tricky, especially when you’re starting a palette from scratch. For Datawrapper, Lisa Charlotte Rost has been writing guides on color as it pertains to p… | Continue reading
As we have seen, small shifts in voting behavior of various demographic groups can swing an election. The Washington Post provides an interactive that lets you shift these groups by both turnout an… | Continue reading
You gotta walk before you crawl. Wait a minute. | Continue reading
From Reddit user wequiock_falls, “What I’m about to learn about after my kid says, ‘Wanna know somefing?’ Data collected over the course of 7 days.” Sounds about right… | Continue reading