Two-thirds of adults get at least 7 hours of sleep. I am not in that two-thirds. Tags: rest, sleep | Continue reading
There are packages to make cartograms, but in some cases you might need a more flexible solution. Tags: R | Continue reading
In 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt mandated that those of Japanese descent be sent… Tags: census, Japantown, racism, San Francisco Chronicle | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Daniela Sirtori, Madeline Campbell, and Marie Patino do some product counting:… Tags: Bloomberg, ingredient, safety | Continue reading
I missed this announcement at the end of last year: Sherwood Media, LLC… Tags: acquisition, Chartr, Sherwood | Continue reading
The National Longitudinal Surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are unique in… Tags: Alvin Chang, development, Pudding, teenager | Continue reading
A decade and a half ago, I wrote the first edition of Visualize… Tags: writing | Continue reading
NatureQuant processes and analyzes satellite imagery to quantify people’s access to nature. They… Tags: cities, nature, NatureQuant, satellite imagery, Washington Post | Continue reading
People need a sense of how distributions work before they can make sense of a histogram. Here's how I (try to) make these misunderstood charts easier to read. Tags: annotation, highlight | Continue reading
As you might expect, the path of totality brought increased activities as people… Tags: eclipse, New York Times, people | Continue reading
Variation kicks in when you look at the later years, consider multiple marriages, divorce, separation, and opposite-sex versus same-sex relationships. This chart breaks it all down. | Continue reading
From xkcd, a Rube Goldberg machine that keeps on going. Edit a cell… Tags: Rube Goldberg machine, xkcd | Continue reading
Maybe you heard there’s a total eclipse happening today. AirDNA mapped Airbnb occupancy… Tags: Airbnb, AirDNA, eclipse | Continue reading
The easystats R package in on my to-try list. easystats is a collection… Tags: package, R | Continue reading
Show all the data at once so that you can see a full trend efficiently, but show a bit at a time and show how the data builds. Tags: interaction, play | Continue reading
Joanie Lemercier used a grid of spinning paddles that turn with the wind.… Tags: Joanie Lemercier, physical, wind | Continue reading
Alexander Miller wrote a “fable of emergence” that combines Conway’s Game of Life… Tags: Alexander Miller, fable, Game of Life | Continue reading
It continues to get easier to take someone’s face and put that person… Tags: AI, ethics, porn, The Markup | Continue reading
OpenAI previewed Voice Engine, a model to generate voices that mimic, using just… Tags: ethics, generative, OpenAI, voice | Continue reading
For Knowing Machines, an ongoing research project that examines the innards of machine… Tags: bias, Knowing Machines, LAION-5B, machine learning | Continue reading
Alasdair Rae outlines the basics of visualizing basketball shot data with QGIS, an… Tags: Alasdair Rae, basketball, QGIS | Continue reading
I collect visualization tools and learning resources and then round them up at the end of each month. Here's the good stuff for March. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Satellite imagery on its own can be limited in what it can say… Tags: Nightingale, Robert Simmon, satellite imagery, storytelling | Continue reading
This is a fun project by Jan Willem Tulp. Based on data from… Tags: history, Jan Willem Tulp, timeline | Continue reading
To gain a better understanding of how ChatGPT works under the hood, Santiago… Tags: AI, ChatGPT, Santiago Ortiz | Continue reading
Alec Singh added another dimension to Conway’s Game of Life for a pretty,… Tags: Alec Singh, Game of Life | Continue reading
Find out when it's your time for the glasses and hearing aid. Time is undefeated. Tags: age, hearing, vision | Continue reading
If a chart is seen by enough people, someone will call it misleading. There are no exceptions. Tags: misleading | Continue reading
The World Happiness Report, published each year since 2012, just dropped for 2024.… Tags: happiness, rank | Continue reading
Jer Thorp has combined birding and data visualization into a unique course called… Tags: birds, Jer Thorp, learning | Continue reading
For Rest of World, Victoria Turk breaks down bias in generative AI in… Tags: AI, bias, midjourney, Rest of World | Continue reading
This looks fun. The Pudding is running an experiment that functions like a… Tags: loss, Pudding, Russell Samora, sketch | Continue reading
Bartosz Ciechanowski is at it again with an in-depth explainer that makes heavy… Tags: airfoil, Bartosz Ciechanowski, flight | Continue reading
On April 8, 2024, the moon is going to completely block the sun… Tags: eclipse, satellite imagery, Washington Post | Continue reading
For the past few years, Laurie Anderson has been using an AI chatbot… Tags: AI, chatbot, Guardian, Large Language Model | Continue reading
Every chart type has its trade-offs. So instead of trying to show everything at once, use multiple views to show things separate. Tags: multiples, simplicity | Continue reading
For the New York Times, Eve Kahn describes the use of maps outside… Tags: decor, New York Times | Continue reading
How common are wide age gaps between spouses? These are the age differences through the lens of the 2022 five-year American Community Survey.Tags: age, marriage, relationships | Continue reading
AI is finding its way into the HR workflow to sift through resumes. This seems like a decent idea on the surface, until you realize that the models that the AI is built on lean more towards certain… | Continue reading
For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia and Emily Badger model how colleges might promote diversity in admissions without (directly) considering race. A set of scatter plots show a theoretical st… | Continue reading
Rolling Stone published a list in 2003 that ranked the 500 greatest albums of all time. The list was updated in 2020, and there was a lot of change. For The Pudding, Chris Dalla Riva and Matthew Da… | Continue reading
The climate is changing, which means some crops will fair better or worse given new conditions. Stamen, in collaboration with Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils, mapped the potential shifts for a v… | Continue reading
Welcome to The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau. The point of visualization is to understand what data is about, wh… | Continue reading
A title drop is when a movie mentions its own name during the film. Dominikus Baur and Alice Thudt analyzed thousands of scripts to calculate when and how often title drops occur: Alright, so here&… | Continue reading
There is a recurring argument that line chart baselines must start at zero, because anything else would be misleading. The critique is misguided.Tags: baseline, rules | Continue reading
Microchips have gotten tiny. Like smaller than a red blood cell tiny. Financial Times goes Powers-of-Ten to show the scale and process of manufacturing itty-bitty microchips. | Continue reading
There’s a total eclipse (a real one, not of the heart) happening on April 8, 2024. The next one isn’t until 2045, so if you don’t want to wait two decades, now’s your chance… | Continue reading
For CNN, Amy O’Kruk and Kenneth Uzquiano asked what would happen if we didn’t have leap years. Without the extra day every four years, we’d eventually have seasons time-shifted by… | Continue reading