Based on estimates from public health researcher James Lawler, The Upshot shows the range of coronavirus deaths, given variable infection and fatality rate. Adjust with the sliders and see how the … | Continue reading
Social distancing is the game plan these days. Try to stay at home and avoid contact with others as much as you can. But why? For The Washington Post, Harry Stevens used simplified simulations of a… | Continue reading
From The Economist, this chart shows the (mostly) decrease in foot traffic in major cities with coronavirus outbreaks. It’s based on data scraped from that section in Google Maps that shows h… | Continue reading
We’re seeing a lot of visual to help explain what’s going on. Here’s the main stuff: what it is, who is affected, the spread, and what we can do. | Continue reading
There’s a lot of figures and numbers floating around about the coronavirus disease. Some conflict with each other and some are from less trustworthy sources. It’s getting tough to filte… | Continue reading
Bartosz Ciechanowski took a deep dive into how gears work and the physics behind the movement with a series of graphics and interactives: I’ve always been fascinated by mechanical gears. There is s… | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer describe how the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus hijacks your cells, makes copies of itself, spreads through the body, and infects others. The vertical… | Continue reading
EarthArtAustralia mapped all of the trees and forests in the United States, based on data from researchers Hansen et al. at the University of Maryland. | Continue reading
3Blue1Brown explains exponential growth and epidemics and answers the question of when the curve levels off: | Continue reading
Everyone has his or her own timeline, but here it is in general for Americans. | Continue reading
The coronavirus can possibly infect a lot more people than there are those who can provide medical care. But if we slow the spread, and there are fewer people in need of care at the same time, the … | Continue reading
Vicki Boykis riffing off the George Box quote, “All models are wrong, some are useful.”: The point is that, whatever data you dig into, at any given point in time, that looks solid on t… | Continue reading
Hannah Davis works with machine learning, which relies on an input dataset to build a model of the world. Davis was working with a model for a while before realizing the underlying data was flawed:… | Continue reading
Speaking of responsible visualization, Datawrapper provides 17 charts and maps you can use in your stories, without causing unnecessary panic. Below is an embedded example: !function(){“use s… | Continue reading
We’re seeing a lot of maps now about coronavirus. There are a lot counts, rates, and a little bit of panic involved. Kenneth Field provides guidance on mapping this data responsibly: We’… | Continue reading
These past few weeks, and especially this one, has been full of uncertainty. Probabilities, odds, and rates. In this issue of The Process we talk about ways to visualize this uncertainty. | Continue reading
The CDC recommends that you do not touch your face to minimize the spread of the coronavirus. We do this quite a bit without even thinking about it, so Do Not Touch Your Face uses machine learning … | Continue reading
The New York Times has a rundown of what happened on Super Tuesday, with five takeaways. One of the sections uses a ternary plot to show support for Sanders, Biden, and other candidates: In case yo… | Continue reading
Davis Vilums set a goal to cycle every street in London on his way to work (without being late). After four years, he accomplished his goal: I am a passionate cyclist, and I love the streets of Lon… | Continue reading
R turned 20 last week. The first public release of R was on February 29, 2000. Jozef Hajnala with the look back: The power of R comes by no small part from the fact that it is easily extensible and… | Continue reading
Andrew Wang-Hoyer built over 200 animations on and off over two years. They are satisfyingly hypnotic. They also only use SVG, CSS, and HTML, and you can get the code on GitHub. I feel like sans-Ja… | Continue reading
With Super Tuesday on the way, there’s still a lot of uncertainty for what’s going to happen. FiveThirtyEight has their forecast, but even with results expressed as odds and probabiliti… | Continue reading
For each month in her child’s first year, Amanda Makulec took a picture of her baby and a pizza. Each slice represents a month. Hence, pizza baby. | Continue reading
Create better population pyramids that allow for improved comparisons between sexes and populations. | Continue reading
For many, Gmail automatically categorizes incoming emails to the primary inbox, promotions, and spam. The Markup and The Guardian tested the categorization on presidential candidate emails: Their r… | Continue reading
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made this graphic to show what beard styles work and do not work with a respirator. If there is hair in the way, the seal breaks. The CDC made it a co… | Continue reading
Every month I collect useful tools and resources for visualization. Here’s the good stuff for February 2020. | Continue reading
From reddit user shoru_lannister, here is a pie chart of their living room corner. Do we have another contender for best pie chart? I think the pyramid pie chart still has an edge. | Continue reading
While working on maps inspired by USGS maps from the 1800s, Sarah Bell made a typeface to match: While making my own USGS-inspired maps, my search never returned the exact type of font I was lookin… | Continue reading
We can download data as a single snapshot in a single file, but oftentimes that data is generated piece-by-piece. In the map above, NASA shows how they piece together rain data with a network of sa… | Continue reading
xkcd crossed a rough age distribution of people becoming grandparents with people named “Chad” and “Jason” to highlight the dawn of a new era. The time is now. | Continue reading
With an animated side-by-side map, The New York Times shows canceled flights in efforts to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. The left map represents 12,814 flights within China on January 23… | Continue reading
The Map of Mathematics from Quanta Magazine explains key concepts with animated visualizations: From simple starting points — Numbers, Shapes, Change — the map branches out into interwoven tendrils… | Continue reading
While we’re on the topic of Mike Bloomberg’s money, here’s another view from Mother Jones: I guess he’s rich. | Continue reading
Welcome to a new segment where I try to put my self in the shoes of someone who made a bad chart and try to make it better. | Continue reading
Mike Bloomberg’s ad spending might not be that much relative to his own net worth, but compared to other candidates’ spending, it’s a whole lot of money. The Washington Post puts … | Continue reading
Geographer Tim Wallace likes to look at old maps, and is particularly fond of the weird and forgotten types: So, I slowly amassed a more complete list. And here it is. Most of these map types are s… | Continue reading
Adobe Illustrator has charting functions that can be useful if you’re on a deadline. Make a quick chart, design, and publish. However, if you want to reuse the chart with new data or need to … | Continue reading
This graphic from WakeMed shows the areas most often missed while washing hands. It’s based on an old-ish study from 1978 by Taylor LJ that evaluated handwashing techniques by health professi… | Continue reading
Botnet is a social media app where you’re the only human among a million bots trained on social media activity. Post pictures, status updates, or whatever else you want. Then let the likes an… | Continue reading
This week, a few projects went up on the internets about money and spending, each with different goals and approaches. In this issue of The Process, we look at each more closely. | Continue reading
Neal Agarwal used a money printing metaphor to depict differences in various wages. The higher the wage, the faster the money prints. Keep scrolling and you also see big company revenues, finished … | Continue reading
For The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui scaled down the federal budget to something more relatable: To better understand how federal spending has changed since Mr. Trump has taken offic… | Continue reading
Reddit user quantum-kate used daily high and low temperatures in Denver in 1992 as the basis of this quilt. I feel like I should learn to knit. | Continue reading
DR used a 3-D model to recreate King Frederick the 9th’s ink: King Frederick the 9th was famous for his tattoos. But until recently — noone knew much about them. By examining hundreds o… | Continue reading
We hear about billionaires spending millions of dollars on ads, acquisitions, etc. It seems like a ridiculous amount of money, but that’s partially because us common folk think of the million… | Continue reading
From @haru_cchii on the Twitter: Local German Gets Bored And Tries To Name All American States i think i did pretty well Seems right to me. | Continue reading
It wasn’t just issues with an app. There appears to be many more problems with the Iowa caucus results. The Upshot broke it down with a closer look at the data: Some of these inconsistencies … | Continue reading