Trey Harris, a previous tech administrator for a university, tells the story of a statistics department that couldn’t send email farther than 500 miles away. The story is more about the pecul… | Continue reading
John Tukey wrote, “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” Not everyone wants to see though. | Continue reading
FastCharts is the public version of the Financial Times’ in-house solution for making charts, uh, fast. Load some data. Get the chart fast. FastCharts. Kachow. | Continue reading
“So how’d you two meet?” There’s always a story, but the general ways people meet are usually similar. Here are the most common. | Continue reading
To connect servers around the world, there are actual cables that run under the ocean. The New York Times mapped current and future cables, with a focus on the ones owned by Amazon, Facebook, Googl… | Continue reading
TwoTone, by Datavized and supported by the Google News Initiative, is a straightforward tool to sonify a dataset. Upload your data, select the metric, speed, and instrument, and you get a tune outp… | Continue reading
I’m thoroughly enjoying the work coming from graphic designer Scott Reinhard as of late. He combines modern techniques with vintage feels. In his most recent, he provides a “look at wha… | Continue reading
Colin Morris culled common misspellings on Reddit and made the data available on GitHub. For The Pudding, Russell Goldenberg and Matt Daniels took it a step further so that you too can see how bad … | Continue reading
Throughout the month I collect new tools for data and visualization and additional resources on designing data graphics. Here’s the new stuff for February. | Continue reading
Here’s a fun spin on the name analysis genre by Mary Zam. She compared the distribution of names used in movies against names used in real life: Thousands of babies are called Sophia or Abiga… | Continue reading
For when you want to show the occurrence of events over time. | Continue reading
Some jobs are common nationwide, because they are needed everywhere. Others are more specific to geography. See where job falls on the spectrum. | Continue reading
Rosenfeld, et al. from Stanford University ran a survey in 2009 for a study on How Couples Meet and Stay Together. Dan Kopf and Youyou Zhou for Quartz used this dataset to estimate the probability … | Continue reading
Speaking of 3-D usage on maps, here’s a map of bus routes in Singapore stacked one on top of the other. I’m not sure it’s especially useful to find individual routes as intended, … | Continue reading
Based on commuting data from the Census Bureau, researchers Matthew Hall, John Iceland, and Youngmin Yi tracked segregation during the day and night. Alvin Chang for Vox mapped their results: They … | Continue reading
These are the jobs in each state that are most specific to the place. | Continue reading
For SB Nation, Jon Bois takes a statistical deep dive in the search for the saddest punt in football. It’s an hour long. It’s a surprisingly fun watch. At the very least, even if you do… | Continue reading
“How do I make my data come alive? I want it to sing. I want it to dance.” Here are some ways to achieve that. | Continue reading
Leslie Roberts uses paint to encode text as colors and geometry: My paintings translate words into visual language. These panels with texts and accompanying abstract structures might be called illu… | Continue reading
There’s big money in wizarding worlds, galaxies far away, and various time-shifted universes. Let’s take a stroll through the billions of dollars earned by franchises over the years. | Continue reading
The United States is doing pretty poorly in reducing emissions. For The New York Times, Brad Plumer and Blacki Migloiozzi, show the current status and what could happen if the U.S. adopted more dra… | Continue reading
Lucas Kwan Peterson for the Los Angeles Times ranked fast food french fries. That is all. | Continue reading
After a most unforgiving dust storm on Mars, NASA ended the 14-year mission with the Opportunity rover. It was originally only planned to last 90 days. Jonathan Corum, for The New York Times, mappe… | Continue reading
Figure out the useful bits and get rid of everything else. | Continue reading
For The Upshot, Kevin Quealy continues on his path looking at the words used by Donald Trump. This time Quealy examines descriptions of the wall and who will pay for it, pre- and post-inauguration. | Continue reading
Only 15 people have done it, since you know, it’s not really easy to do. Here’s how and when they did it. | Continue reading
Kjetil Golid made an interactive that lets you generate a noise field using a gradient from an image of your choosing. Fun. And excellent wallpaper material. | Continue reading
It’s the scale of significant Star Wars characters, objects, and ships from Episode I through VIII, plus Rogue One and Solo. Need I say more? | Continue reading
Visit the best American breweries of 2018, based on RateBeer rankings, while minimizing travel time and distance. | Continue reading
As more elements were discovered, the table grew and changed layout. For Science Magazine, Jake Yeston, Nirja Desai, and Elbert Wang provide a visual history. | Continue reading
In visualization, there are tools, templates, and defaults, which are meant to be copied and reused. Then there are data graphics that are designed with a specific purpose and dataset, which are so… | Continue reading
Jan Willem Tulp visualized train travel times using distance and color as an indicator. His reasoning: When a train starts running from one station to the next station, conceptually, these two stat… | Continue reading
RateBeer puts out a list every year for top 100 breweries in the world. Here are the states that cracked the list. | Continue reading
It started with a mom holding her painting of a bird. Then someone painted that photo and took a picture of himself holding the painting. Then someone painted the photo of the man holding the paint… | Continue reading
Using a year’s worth of daily images from NASA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), Johannes Kroeger constructed the average snapshot for 2018. Fun. | Continue reading
Many parents stop at two kids. Most are done by three. Still, everyone has their own timelines. Here are 1,000 of them. | Continue reading
Throughout the month I collect new tools for data and visualization and additional resources on designing data graphics. Here’s the new stuff for January. | Continue reading
A wideout view of the news cycle can look like a series of rise and falls. Something captures the general public’s attention, and then it fades off. Thank you, next. This collaboration betwee… | Continue reading
Matt Baker provides this nifty diagram on how the alphabet changed over the centuries, evolving to what it is now. Grab the print. | Continue reading
Cartoonist Olivia de Recat illustrated the closeness over time for various relationships. Charming. Unfortunately, the print is sold out. Sad trombone. | Continue reading
Also known as a Marimekko diagram, the mosaic plot lets you compare multiple qualitative variables at once. They can be useful, sometimes. | Continue reading
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage. Sometimes. | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy and Jessia Ma visualized the path to Congress for every member. See it all at once like above or search for specific members. The vertical scale represents prev… | Continue reading
We looked at prime dating age and when people usually marry. Now it’s time for the next step in the circle of life. | Continue reading
Unfortunately, you can’t just conjure data out of thin air. Well, I guess you can, but it’d probably be sort of unreliable. Kind of. Maybe. So where do you find data? Here’s where… | Continue reading
Sarah Weber posted a picture of a scarf that her mom knit to represent rail delays. Weber’s mom knitted two rows per day and used color to indicate the delay. Grey was under 5 minutes, pink w… | Continue reading
I’m always up for some scaled perspective. From David Packer: Anyone need a video demonstrating 1000s, 100s, 10s and 1s? You're in luck pic.twitter.com/sMGKlXKVy7— Dave (@sheepfilm… | Continue reading