Inspired by the genre of YouTube videos where younger people listen to older music, The Pudding is running a project to find the generational music gaps. Enter your age, songs play, and you say if … | Continue reading
Jukebox from OpenAI is a generative model that makes music in the same styles as many artists you’ll probably recognize: To train this model, we crawled the web to curate a new dataset of 1.2… | Continue reading
Hi, Nathan here. This is The Process, the weekly newsletter for FlowingData where I talk about how the charts get made. I hope you’re well. My looping soundtrack has apparently converged to B… | Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago — or maybe it was a couple of years ago, I’m not sure — the administration announced it would withdraw funding from the World Health Organization. Here’s wha… | Continue reading
The Vocal Synthesis channel on YouTube trains text-to-speech models using publicly available celebrity voices. Then using this new computer-generated voice, the celebrities “recite” var… | Continue reading
Many brands that were at-risk before the pandemic or ran with low profit margins might not make it through this thing. The Washington Post used a faux mall map to show the levels of risk: Companies… | Continue reading
The New York Times went through the words using during press briefings, pulling out five main categories and highlighting one in particular: Viewed simply as a pattern of Mr. Trump’s speech, the se… | Continue reading
We cannot know the true number of coronavirus-related deaths. Maybe it’s because of a lack of tests. Maybe cause of death is ambiguous because of pre-existing conditions. So, for a different … | Continue reading
As you would imagine, what we search for online shifted over the past few months. The unknowns push information gathering. Schema Design, in collaboration with the Google News Initiative and Axios,… | Continue reading
Hayleigh Moore for the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland on visualization and the pandemic: With new updates developing by the hour amidst the evolving COVID-19 pandemic,… | Continue reading
If you have a room of monkeys hitting keys on typewriters for an infinite amount of time, do you eventually end up with a Shakespeare play? For The Pudding, Russell Goldenberg and Amber Thomas put … | Continue reading
There’s a new tool-agnostic course now available for members. Check it out now. | Continue reading
Vi Hart, along with a group of experts from different political backgrounds and fields, proposes a plan for how we reopen: | Continue reading
People of the Pandemic is a game that lets you choose how many times you leave the house to get food or go for a walk. Using data for population and hospital beds in your ZIP code, the game then si… | Continue reading
The daily counts for coronavirus deaths rely on reporting, testing, and available estimates, which means the numbers we see are probably lower than the real counts. So, for The New York Times, Jin … | Continue reading
The coronavirus changed what information we search for. Has anyone been more interested in making masks or hand sanitizer in the history of the world? For The Washington Post, Alyssa Fowers compare… | Continue reading
They say a watched pot never boils. So here’s a game where you try to make the pot boiling by looking somewhere else. | Continue reading
For many, sheltering in place means sheltering in relatively small places. Reuters zoomed in on the tight quarters in Tokyo, Japan. Not much room for movement. | Continue reading
The data might exist on a single page or in a single file, but there’s always more to it. Take a step outside for a better view. | Continue reading
Manuel Lima hosted a free online panel with Michale Friendly and Sandra Rendgen historical data visualization. It already happened, but you can listen to the archived version: Human beings have bee… | Continue reading
Quickly see what’s below and above average through the noise and seasonal trends. | Continue reading
BTS, the South Korean boy band, is apparently really good at dancing. Ketchup Duck breaks down a routine into individual formations to show the precision: There are a lot of impressive things about… | Continue reading
For National Geographic, Nina Strochlic and Riley D. Champine look back at the 1918 pandemic for clues about the future: The 1918 flu, also known as the Spanish Flu, lasted until 1920 and is consid… | Continue reading
Using 3-D simulation data from the Kyoto Institute of Technology, The New York Times shows how droplets from a sneeze or a cough can spread in a space. In a nutshell, six feet is the recommendation… | Continue reading
The Ohio Department of Health released this video to show the advantages of social distancing: That’s a lot of balls and mousetraps to setup. | Continue reading
Consumer spending has shifted dramatically since most people have to stay at home. For The New York Times, Lauren Leatherby and David Gelles show by how much: All of the charts in this article are … | Continue reading
The pandemic has affected all parts of life, which can be seen from many points of view. For National Geographic, Taylor Maggiacomo and Maya Wei-Haas on the decrease in average ground displacement:… | Continue reading
In a collaboration between The Marshall Project and The Upshot, Anna Flagg and Joseph Neff look at the flow in and out of jails and what that means during these times of social distancing: Preventi… | Continue reading
The Washington Post provides clear instructions on how to sew your own mask. Download and print the template, attach elastic straps, and sew. | Continue reading
I have a lot of books stacked on my desk. It’s kind of embarrassing. Now seems like a good as time as any to read them. | Continue reading
For Reuters, Jon McClure looks at the death counts for each country from a different angle. “Each line measures how much the number of fatalities grew in seven days.” The goal is to … | Continue reading
When I tell people that I’m a graduate student in Statistics, there are two responses that I get more than any others. The most popular of the two usually goes something like this. Oh man, I … | Continue reading
The CDC now recommends that you wear a cloth face mask if you leave the house. For The Washington Post, Bonnie Berkowitz and Aaron Steckelberg answer some questions you might have about making your… | Continue reading
Your schedule changed. The time spent in front of or using a screen probably shifted. Using data from SimilarWeb and Apptopia, Ella Koeze and Nathaniel Popper for The New York Times look at how the… | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Lazaro Gamio and Karen Yourish use an animated map to show known total coronavirus deaths over time. The height of each triangle represents the count for a Core-Based Statis… | Continue reading
Will Chase, who specialized in visualization for epidemiological studies in grad school, outlined why he won’t make charts showing Covid-19 data: So why haven’t I joined the throng of f… | Continue reading
From researchers at Bauhaus-University Weimar, this video shows how various methods of covering a cough change the spread of air from your mouth. | Continue reading
For Reuters, Chris Canipe looks at social distancing from the perspective of household income: Anonymized smartphone data in the United States shows some interesting trends. People in larger cities… | Continue reading
Here are some useful distractions for you as you stay-at-home and wait for an unknown amount of time. | Continue reading
Based on cellphone data from Cuebiq, The New York Times looked at how different parts of the country reduced their travel between the end of February and the end of March. Some counties really stay… | Continue reading
As you would expect, not many people are flying these days. The Washington Post mapped the halts around the world: On Tuesday, the TSA screened just over 146,000 passengers at U.S. airports, a 94 p… | Continue reading
Fatalities from Covid-19 range from the hundreds of thousands to the millions. Nobody knows for sure. These predictions are based on statistical models, which are based on data, which aren’t … | Continue reading
On the surface, the decennial census seems straightforward. Count everyone in the country and you’re done. But the way we’ve done that has changed over the decades. The Pudding and Alec… | Continue reading
3Blue1Brown goes into more of the math of SIR models — which drive many of the simulations you’ve seen so far — that assume people are susceptible, infectious, or recovered. | Continue reading
Maybe you’re starting to run low. Here’s how much you’ll need when you go to restock. | Continue reading
Comprehensive national data on Covid-19 has been hard to come by through government agencies. The New York Times released their own dataset and will be updating regularly: The tracking effort grew … | Continue reading
A comic by Marcos Balfagón attaches action to the curve. | Continue reading
Every month I collect useful visualization tools and resources to help you work better or more efficiently. Here’s the good stuff for March. | Continue reading