Axios provides a straightforward state map showing the percentage change in the 7-day average for confirmed Covid-19 cases. Numbers are up in a lot of places. Increased testing does not explain awa… | Continue reading
Cameron Bennett made a relief map of Idaho, completely out of LEGO bricks: In March, the COVID-induced quarantine sent me home, but more importantly, to my childhood Legos. What resulted was too mu… | Continue reading
Here’s the good stuff for June. | Continue reading
Using a wide array of sources, The New York Times shows how the virus spread at a granular level. The foundation is a map with moving dots, and the piece takes you through movements based on cell p… | Continue reading
Even though there was supposedly a person in the decision-making process and a surveillance photo wasn’t actually Robert Julian-Borchak Williams, he still ended up handcuffed in front of his … | Continue reading
In crime shows, they often have this amazing tool that turns a low-resolution, pixelated image of a person’s face to a high-resolution, highly accurate picture of the perp. Face Depixelizer i… | Continue reading
Welcome to whose bar chart is it anyway: where the geometries are made up and the numbers don’t matter. [via @dannypage] | Continue reading
Kurzgesagt, in collaboration with Our World in Data, tackle the question of who is responsible for climate change and who should fix it. As you might imagine, the answer is not always straightforwa… | Continue reading
Based on estimates from the United States Census Bureau released for July 2019, Millennials are the largest living generation in the country now. | Continue reading
Maybe you’ve seen a chart and wished you could look at the data yourself. Maybe you want to see it from a different angle. But the underlying dataset is nowhere to be found. The WebPlotDigiti… | Continue reading
New York Times Opinion compared several demographics, such as unemployment and income, between majority-black and majority-white neighborhoods in the United States. They come back to the zipper cha… | Continue reading
Dylan Tallchief recreated “Take On Me” by a-ha in Excel. It’s not the tools. It’s how you use them. Something something blah blah. It’s in Excel! | Continue reading
If you’re looking for visual inspiration, one or two centuries back is a good place to start. | Continue reading
Here is the breakdown for each state in the United States, based on estimates from the American Community Survey. | Continue reading
The name Karen. It’s not a common baby name these days. It peaked in the 1960s. The Pudding looked for other names in US history that followed similar trends: To put this question to the test… | Continue reading
All you need is an old table, gift wrapping paper, and some varnish. I’m gonna have to do this. [via @datavisFriendly] | Continue reading
In April 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated a national unemployment rate of 14.7%. It wasn’t just the rate itself but how fast it spiked. | Continue reading
As a 100-day project, Alli Torban has been imagining what a data visualization designer’s wallpaper might look like through the years. She started in 1920, and with one design per year, she&#… | Continue reading
Robert Hodgin built a procedural system he calls Meander to generate the beauty above, among several others: My all-time favorite map-based data visualization was created in 1944. Harold Fisk, work… | Continue reading
The right baseline provides a way to compare everything else in a useful way. The wrong baseline makes the rest of the data useless. | Continue reading
The Economist launched their 2020 elections forecast. Right now a part of my brain is telling me to avoid election forecasts this year, but the other part of me is like, don’t fight it, you k… | Continue reading
As we know, it typically takes years to develop a vaccine that is approved for wide scale use. For the coronavirus, researchers are trying to speed up that timeline. Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer … | Continue reading
I know it seems like ages ago when we were talking about flattening the curve, but it was a rallying cry at some point. The charts that started it all weren’t particularly fancy or something … | Continue reading
To reopen safely, meatpacking plants have to take precautions to provide space and separation for workers. But the process typically involves a lot of people working close together. The New York Ti… | Continue reading
The numbers are from a survey by the Pew Research Center conducted in 2016. I suspect the percentages are higher right now, but I’m not so sure about the differences between police and public… | Continue reading
A large proportion of those who died from Covid-19 had pre-existing medical conditions. The percentage of those who have pre-existing medical conditions changes a lot by income group. Based on esti… | Continue reading
Pen plotters slowly draw out a picture line-by-line, so when you watch a chart plot out, it shows up on the paper one piece at a time. Silfa Huttner and Duncan Geere’s use this unraveling … | Continue reading
The visualization work of W.E.B. Du Bois and his students has been on FD before, but it’s worth another look. In 1900, they put together a series of charts for a Paris exhibition visualizing … | Continue reading
Keep your eyes open. | Continue reading
Maddy Varner reporting for The Markup: “All protesting and all marches are a series of balancing acts of different priorities and acceptable risks,” said Mason Donahue, a member of Lucy… | Continue reading
The New York Times reports on how the CDC struggled and failed on many levels. On the data front, where it was so important in the beginnings to gauge what was about to happen, the CDC failed to ge… | Continue reading
There’s a lot of misinformation passing through the internets right now. A lot. Connie Jin, for NPR, made a comic that explains how to spot it. I suspect FD readers are better than average at… | Continue reading
It’s hard to think of much else. These maps show the racial divide between black and white people in major cities. | Continue reading
We like to complain about how data is messy, not in the right format, and how parts don’t make sense. Reality is complicated though. | Continue reading
The Census Bureau has been running the Household Pulse Survey since April 23, 2020 to get some gauge for how the pandemic is changing things at home. Here’s how things look so far. | Continue reading
Every month I collect useful visualization tools and resources to make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for May. | Continue reading
The Federal Procurement Data System tracks federal contracts of $10,000 or more. For ProPublica, Moiz Syed and Derek Willis made the data for coronavirus-related contracts more accessible with a se… | Continue reading
The coronavirus has changed everything. Larry Buchanan, for The New York Times, goes minimalist with a series of up and down arrows to show which direction things moved. Even though there’s n… | Continue reading
This map by Tim Meko for The Washington Post uses time series lines to show change in confirmed cases by county. Using a combination of line thickness, height, and color, the map highlights the cou… | Continue reading
For Reuters, Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr animated a coronavirus outbreak in Singapore between January and April, going with the force-directed bubble view. It starts small, then there’s the … | Continue reading
A Yahoo News/YouGov poll recently showed this: Only 40% of American adults are like, “No way. This is false.” But then there are 32% who are like, “Well… maybe? I don’… | Continue reading
The New York Times used their full front page to list 1,000 names of the 100,000 who died due to the virus. There is an online version, which is equally moving. | Continue reading
This is The New York Times front page for Sunday, May 24, 2020. | Continue reading
Using anonymized cellphone data from SafeGraph, Reade Levinson and Chris Canipe for Reuters mapped the change in foot traffic for different types of businesses over time. Orange represents more mov… | Continue reading
With coronavirus testing, many governments have used the percentage of tests that came back positive over time to gauge progress and decide whether or not it’s time to reopen. To calculate pe… | Continue reading
The Georgia Department of Public Health published a questionable chart showing confirmed Covid-19 cases over time. Intentionally misleading or poorly made chart? | Continue reading
States are reopening. Some seem ready, and some less so. Lena V. Groeger and Ash Ngu for ProPublica made a reference so that you can quickly see how your state is doing in five important metrics: T… | Continue reading
This straightforward grid map by Danielle Alberti for Axios shows the percentage of adults in a household where someone lost employment income. In all likelihood, you know someone affected in one w… | Continue reading