For NYT’s The Upshot, Tim Wallace and Krishna Karra looked at how the red-blue electoral map relates to the green and gray color spectrum in satellite imagery: The pattern we observe here is … | Continue reading
The election is full of what-ifs, and the result changes depending on which direction they take. Josh Holder and Alexander Burns for The New York Times use a pair of circular Voronoi diagrams and d… | Continue reading
Each state is handling mail-in voting in a certain way with varying timelines and rules. FiveThirtyEight provides a straightforward state-by-state guide so you can see what your state is doing. I l… | Continue reading
Put multiple time series lines on the same plot, and you quickly end up with a mess. Here are practical ways to clean it up. | Continue reading
Jeff Leek and Roger Peng started their course Advanced Data Science at Johns Hopkins University. It’s meant for JHU students, but you can learn from the weekly course material for free: The c… | Continue reading
The New York Times provides a state-by-state chart timeline for voting by mail: But 16 states allow voters to apply for mail ballots so close to Election Day that their votes could be at risk of be… | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Aaron E. Carroll on doing small things that sum to something bigger: Too many view protective measures as all or nothing: Either we do everything, or we might as well do none. That… | Continue reading
The New York Times provides a breakdown of minutes spoken at the Republican National Convention. The bubbles, sized by minute count, start as an overview of everyone who spoke, and then cluster int… | Continue reading
Bloomberg looks at how retail struggles might kill the middle-of-the-road malls before this pandemic is done: Although many bankrupt retailers continue operating while restructuring under Chapter 1… | Continue reading
“Two.js is deeply inspired by flat motion graphics. As a result, two.js aims to make the creation and animation of flat shapes easier and more concise.” It also renders in webgl, canvas… | Continue reading
Here’s the good stuff for August 2020. | Continue reading
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Talking about a possible plasma treatment for Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn misinterpreted results from the study. The study from the Mayo Clinic notes a poss… | Continue reading
What is old? When it comes to subjects like health care and retirement, we often think of old in fixed terms. But as people live longer, it’s worth changing the definition. | Continue reading
How do you assemble a banana and peanut butter sandwich that maximizes the number of bites with the perfect ratio of bread, peanut butter, and banana? Ethan Rosenthal, in a quest to work on somethi… | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, Sergio Peçanha asks, “What will it take to achieve gender equality in American politics?” It will take some more time and a lot more effort to reach equal repre… | Continue reading
Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich for The New York Times show how policies that marked black neighborhoods as “hazardous” for real estate investment led to a present-day with fewer trees a… | Continue reading
Businesses are still seeing visits mostly down compared to last year, which shouldn’t be much of a surprise. But there is a lot of variation across the states. The New York Times shows the co… | Continue reading
It’s clear that Covid-19 has affected groups differently across the United States. By geography. By education level. By income. The Marshall Project breaks down excess deaths by race: Earlier… | Continue reading
From the Computer Graphics Lab at Stanford University, the results from an analysis of a decade of cable news: The Stanford TV News Analyzer has applied deep-learning-based image and audio analysis… | Continue reading
The volume of mail-in ballots will likely be higher than usual this year, but relative to the Postal Service’s usual volumes from years past, the bump doesn’t seem unfathomable. The cha… | Continue reading
Last month I did a short Q&A about FD and my workflow. I thought I’d elaborate on one of my answers. | Continue reading
Researchers from the National University of Singapore found a way to infer key shape based on the sound the lock makes when you insert the key. First they capture a sound recording with a standard … | Continue reading
Los Angeles Times provides a California-specific map of the current wildfires to stay updated on what’s happening right now. In the zoomed out view, hexagons bin the individual fires and colo… | Continue reading
With the rush of wildfires in California, governor Gavin Newsom declared (another) state of emergency. The Fire and Smoke Map from the U.S. Forest Service and Environmental Protection Agency provid… | Continue reading
For The Los Angeles Times, Casey Miller went hyperlocal to track mask wearing in three locations in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Over a week, a group of reporters counted people who passed by a… | Continue reading
There was an explosion in Beirut. It was big. How big? Marco Hernandez and Simon Scarr for Reuters provide a sense of scale: George William Herbert, an adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute… | Continue reading
Seems about right. (Who made it?) | Continue reading
Reporting for The New York Times, Giovanni Russonello on the decennial census during these times: If households can’t be reached, even by enumerators, then census takers rely on a process known as … | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Yaryna Serkez and Stuart A. Thompson estimated where we’re ready: Our analysis considers two main things: the rate of new infections in a county and the county’s testing capa… | Continue reading
After seeing stoxart, I was reminded of Michael Najjar’s project High Altitude from 2010-ish. He used photos he captured while climbing Mount Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, … | Continue reading
stoxart is a project by Gladys where she turns stock market chart to landscape illustrations. The peaks become mountains, the dips become a space for the moon and the stars. The above is an illustr… | Continue reading
The United States Postal Service is losing mail sorting machines — as an election during a pandemic gets closer. The Washington Post reports on what they know so far, including the map above … | Continue reading
I thought March was only 31 days, but the system seems stuck. Did anyone try turning it off and on again. | Continue reading
This past month an old chart type poked its head out from behind the trees and I’m here for it. | Continue reading
There’s going to be a lot more voting by mail this year. The New York Times shows what each state is doing. It’s a cartogram. So it must be election season. | Continue reading
The election is coming. FiveThirtyEight just launched their forecast with a look at the numbers from several angles. Maps, histograms, beeswarms, and line charts, oh my. There is also a character n… | Continue reading
Slime mold are single-celled organisms that can work together to form multicellular structures. Antonio Sánchez Chinchón used slime mold simulations generate these images: This post talks about a g… | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek charted the gaps between white and black mortality rate: If Black people had died at the same age-adjusted rate as white people in 2018, they would have avoided 65,000 … | Continue reading
Liana Finck for Man Repeller draws out the new timeline. I’m a couple of decades removed from this timeline, but it doesn’t look very fun. I’m always down to plant some scallions … | Continue reading
If someone sneezes in a closed space, you hope that the area has good ventilation, because those sneeze particles are going to spread. The New York Times explains in the context of a subway train. … | Continue reading
You can basically hook up an antennae to your laptop and start receiving images from space. This DIY guide from Public Lab amazes me. The NOAA satellites have inbuilt radio antennas that transmit t… | Continue reading
Herd immunity works when you have enough people who are immune to a disease, maybe because they already got it or there’s a vaccine, so that the disease can’t spread anymore to those wh… | Continue reading
We know the big ones. Now here are the small ones. Focused. Efficient. | Continue reading
Malofiej, which in the visual journalism sphere is a high-tier honor to win each year, announced the winners for 2019. Congratulations to Sahil Chinoy and Jessia Ma for The New York Times on their … | Continue reading
We’ve been hearing a lot about national unemployment rate, but it’s not uniformly distributed across the country. Some areas are a lot higher, some places are a lot lower, and there are… | Continue reading
A closer look at the age old question of where there are more bars than grocery stores, and vice versa. | Continue reading
With Joe Biden calling for 100% clean electricity, John Muyskens and Juliet Eilperin for The Washington Post looked at where states are at now in terms of electricity generation. The variable width… | Continue reading