Monica Ramirez tried her hand with modeling deaths on Game of Thrones and trying to predict the next ones: Since the series is so famous for killing principal characters (It’s true! Yu can’t have a… | Continue reading
Jen Luker noted, “As amazing as @github is, it is a tool designed to track code, not people. I’m sharing my annotated GitHub history to show you what it can’t tell you about a dev… | Continue reading
For The Washington Post, Tim Meko mapped floods, tornados, hurricanes, extreme temperatures, wildfires, and lightning: Data collection for these events has never been more consistent. Mapping the t… | Continue reading
Every month I collect the new tools, resources, and datasets. Here they are for April. | Continue reading
James Holzhauer is the new hotness on Jeopardy! with Daily Double hunting, big wagers, lightning clicks, and all-around trivia skills. For FiveThirtyEight, Oliver Roeder looks at how Holzhauer domi… | Continue reading
Here are all the playoff threes he’s made in his playoff career, plus some R code. | Continue reading
Caitlin Dewey for OneZero describes the case of the Fruit Belt neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, or “Medical Park” as it was incorrectly named in Google Maps: Lott learned that the iss… | Continue reading
Los Angeles Clippers commentator Ralph Lawler has a saying: “First to 100 wins. It’s the law.” The Los Angeles Times checked the numbers to see how true the statement is. It’s bee… | Continue reading
Ooo, bubbles… It’s not the most visually efficient method, but it’s one of the more visually satisfying ones. | Continue reading
I marked this article for later reading. It’s about Stephen Curry’s love of popcorn as a pre-game and half-time snack. Sounded amusing. Then I got to it and discovered that he scores ev… | Continue reading
By now we’ve all seen the zoomed out thumbnail view of the Mueller Report. It gives you a quick look at the amount of the report redacted, but that’s about it. So, Axios tagged every pa… | Continue reading
Generative models can seem like a magic box where you plug in observed data, turn some dials, and see what the computer spits out. SpaceSheet is a simple spreadsheet interface to explore and experi… | Continue reading
The redacted version (pdf) of the Mueller report was released today. Here’s the thumbnailed view for a sense of the redactions. | Continue reading
The welcoming nature of the data community was one of the reasons I switched to Statistics. Let’s keep it that way. | Continue reading
Feeding off the words of John Tukey, Roger Peng proposes a search for better questions in analysis: The goal in this picture is to get to the upper right corner, where you have a high quality quest… | Continue reading
Notre-Dame in Paris, France was on fire. The New York Times describes what happened in a detailed yet concise information graphic. A 3-D model provides the imagery, and rotation and zooming highlig… | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy on privacy and how easy it is now to automate surveillance through public video feeds: To demonstrate how easy it is to track people without their knowledge, we… | Continue reading
What percentage of households fall into lower-, middle-, and upper-income levels when you adjust for household size? | Continue reading
For The Upshot, Josh Katz, Kevin Quealy, and Margot Sanger-Katz, consulted economists to ask what the cost of Medicare for all might look like: The proposals themselves are vague on crucial points.… | Continue reading
The meaning of “middle-income” changes a lot depending on where you live and your household size. | Continue reading
In this issue I go over my somewhat delayed shift towards making charts that work in different screen sizes and the tools that work for me. | Continue reading
As many know (I hope), what we see on social media often doesn’t mirror real life. It’s a filtered and algorithmically-driven point of view. This grows problematic when people make deci… | Continue reading
A few years back, The Washington Post illustrated every death in Game of Thrones. With the new season on the way, the death count is up and the graphics updated. | Continue reading
For the Washington Post, Kevin Schaul and Kevin Uhrmacher parsed the social media of Democrats: A Washington Post analysis of more than 5,600 social media posts from March found significant differe… | Continue reading
The New York Times illustrated what likely happened in the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes. The walkthrough uses a picture of a plane, simple and clear annotation, and animation to help rea… | Continue reading
FiveThirtyEight uses forecasts to attach probabilities to politics and sports, and they get most of their attention before the events. After all, we don’t need a forecast after something happ… | Continue reading
Context makes data useful. Without it, it’s easy to get lost in numbers that mean little, but finding the context of data isn’t especially straightforward. Catherine D’Ignazio exp… | Continue reading
The Economist charted the divisions within political parties using Brexit votes as proxy. I’m here for the bubbles. | Continue reading
There is a lot of Census data. You can grab most of the recent aggregates through the American FactFinder or via FTP or some obscure Census page that hasn’t been updated in a decade. It’… | Continue reading
Using estimates from a study on regional bias in tax audits, ProPublica mapped the likelihood of getting audited by the IRS. They then turn their attention to Humphreys County, Mississippi: In a ba… | Continue reading
Matt Hong used a stacked bar chart over time as the frame for a data comic about American time use. Each row represents a 2-hour window during the day, and each stack represents the percentage of A… | Continue reading
Everyone’s story is a little different. Alyssa Fowers tracked her long-distance relationship in the context of the temperature between two locations and the travel to and from. | Continue reading
Speaking of relationship timelines, Chris Lewis used texting history with his girlfriend after the first swipe on Bumble as the backdrop of their own story. A few 21k messages later, they’re … | Continue reading
Sarah Leo, a visual journalist at The Economist, looked through the archives and found some charts that could use a re-design. After a deep dive into our archive, I found several instructive exampl… | Continue reading
Every month I collect practical resources, new tools, code, and datasets. Here’s the good stuff for March. | Continue reading
Sometimes you really do need to get away. Escape, part search engine and part research project from students at the MIT Senseable City Laboratory in Singapore, shows you the cheapest flights out of… | Continue reading
If only there were a way to keep more people more healthy. That would be nice. | Continue reading
Visualize rankings over time instead of absolute values to focus on order instead of the magnitude of change. | Continue reading
Everyone’s relationship timeline is a little different. This animation plays out real-life paths to marriage. | Continue reading
The Stanford Open Policing Project just released a dataset for police traffic stops across the country: Currently, a comprehensive, national repository detailing interactions between police and the… | Continue reading
There’s less than a month until taxes are due. It’s the most wonderful time of year, isn’t it? As you probably know, there are some changes in deductions, limits, and refund amoun… | Continue reading
There’s a new hotness in chart town. It’s a bar chart. But it moves to show rankings over time. | Continue reading
Other than calls from my wife, I can’t even remember the last call I received that wasn’t a robocall. Based on data from the Robocall Index and the American Community Survey, Sara Fisch… | Continue reading
For FiveThirtyEight, William T. Adler and Ella Koeze describe how a metric called partisan bias is used to assess partisan gerrymandering. As you might imagine, it’s fuzzy. | Continue reading
We know that people are marrying later in life, but that’s not the only shift. The whole relationship timeline is stretching. | Continue reading
Marian Eerens charted the colors of each Adventures of Tintin book cover. The only thing missing is the actual covers on the mouseover. It’s a straightforward thing, but I find these sort of … | Continue reading
Compared to a computer’s pseudo-random number generator, we are not good at picking random numbers. Ilya Perederiy made a quick game to show how bad you are: Your fingers tend to repeat certa… | Continue reading
How do couples meet now and how has it changed over the years? Watch the rankings play out over six decades. | Continue reading