You’ve probably heard the lines about how “40 is the new 30” or “30 is the new 20.” What is this based on? I tried to solve the problem using life expectancy data. | Continue reading
Between 1802 and 1817, James Sowerby cataloged and illustrated 718 minerals across seven volumes. Nicholas Rougeux restored all of the illustrations over several months, carefully arranged them by … | Continue reading
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal can see the future. | Continue reading
Here’s the good stuff for July. | Continue reading
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been taking a picture of the sun every 0.75 seconds for a decade. Above is a time-lapse of the resulting 20 million gigabytes of data: This 10-year time … | Continue reading
Lauren Tierney and William Neff for The Washington Post used a rotating globe to show how connections between countries quickly shut down as the coronavirus spread. I’m looking forward to whe… | Continue reading
Dan Kois walked all of the blocks in his ZIP Code and collected data on whether houses used serif or sans serif fonts for their house numbers: Between March 10 and May 25, I walked every street in … | Continue reading
Using a spiral might not be the best way to encode data. But here’s how to do it anyway. Just in case. | Continue reading