DataKind, the organization known for helping others use data for social good, received a $20 million grant from The Rockefeller Foundation and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth: The grant … | Continue reading
Some words are harder to spell than others, and on the internet, sometimes people indicate the difficulty by following their uncertainty with “(sp?)”. Colin Morris collected all the wor… | Continue reading
Hurry up, light. We’re gonna be late: By James O’Donoghue, the animation shows the speed of light in real-time. The distance between Earth, the moon, and Mars is to scale, but the locat… | Continue reading
Ah, the online personality quiz, oh how I missed you. Oh wait, this one is slightly different. For FiveThirtyEight, Maggie Koerth-Baker and Julia Wolfe provide a quiz used by psychologists to gauge… | Continue reading
Datawrapper is an online tool that helps you make nice-looking charts for the web. No code is required. Instead, a focused interface lets you load data, pick your chart type, refine, and publish. | Continue reading
John Nelson turned the Grand Canyon inside out to understand the magnitude better: Some of my earliest memories of the place had to do with the trippy feeling of my eyes and mind trying to make sen… | Continue reading
Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not always clear when the tech is listening. Alias by Bjørn Karmann is a device you put on top of t… | Continue reading
Amanda Cox is the new data editor for The New York Times: As data editor, Amanda will continue to provide direction for The Upshot, and she’ll add the expertise from Computer-Assisted Reporting jou… | Continue reading
There’s a space on the basketball court called “mid-range.” It’s actually not off-limits. In fact, people used to shoot these so-called “mid-range” shots. | Continue reading
Using color as the visual encoding, show changes over time in two dimensions. | Continue reading
People show up unannounced at John and his mother Ann’s home in South Africa, looking for stolen property, but John and Ann didn’t steal anything. For Gizmodo, Kashmir Hill investigates… | Continue reading
Along the same lines as last week’s one-year wind time-lapse, Weather Decoded provides this one-year time-lapse of the weather over the United States: Fun. [via kottke] | Continue reading
It feels like magic. I think there’s a magic trick percolating in there somewhere. I’m not sure where this is from. It looks like it’s a recording from a camera pointed at a telev… | Continue reading
Compelling visualization don’t just conjure itself out of nowhere. The ideas come from somewhere, and oftentimes they build off previous ones. | Continue reading
Using the same National Weather Service data that powers his live-ish wind map of Earth, Cameron Beccario put together a time-lapse for all of 2018. Watch it on full-screen in its 4k glory. | Continue reading
As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The New York Times uses others industries for scale. Ugh. | Continue reading
This vintage recreation by graphic designer Scott Reinhard fills all the right checkboxes for me. | Continue reading
Denise Lu for The New York Times provides a quick overview of the proposed border wall and its progress. Scroll for zeros. | Continue reading
The end of a year is always a good time to look back at past work, because the day-to-day can sometimes feel like an endless churn. There’s also just no way to remember everything, and becaus… | Continue reading
Nick Barrowman on the myth of raw data: Assumptions inevitably find their way into the data and color the conclusions drawn from it. Moreover, they reflect the beliefs of those who collect the data… | Continue reading
D3.js can be used for a lot of things, and for some people it’s too much to deal with. | Continue reading
Niklas Elmqvist provides a detailed guide for finding and a visualization PhD program: Unless you have a specific reason to choose a specific university (such as a geographic one; maybe you can’t r… | Continue reading
The stock market is in a state. So finicky the past few months. Kate Rabinowitz and Leslie Shapiro for The Washington Post provide a view further into the past for more context to the recent flux. … | Continue reading
Max Read for New York Magazine describes the fake-ness of internet through the metrics, the people, and the content: Can we still trust the metrics? After the Inversion, what’s the point? Even when… | Continue reading
Believe it or not, the box-and-whisker is not just a box and some whiskers. | Continue reading
While looking through this year’s projects, picking out my favorites, I couldn’t help but reminisce about the times when the internet used to feel so care-free. It was more relaxed. The… | Continue reading
Bloomberg charted voter turnout for the just past midterm elections, comparing 2018 against 2014. As you might expect, there are a lot of blue arrows pointed up and to the left. Turnout decreased i… | Continue reading
Visualization continues to mature and develop into a medium. There’s less focus on visualization the tool and more focus on how to use the tools. That is a good thing. | Continue reading
Matthew Conlen provides a short explainer of how kernel density estimation works. Nifty. | Continue reading
Kirk Goldsberry is back at ESPN. I put this here mainly because it’s nice to have the hexbin shot charts in the feed again. | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal highlighted a disagreement between data and business at Netflix. Ultimately, the business side “won.” However, maybe that’s the wrong framing. Roger Peng d… | Continue reading
Descartes Labs used machine learning to identify all of the trees in the world where at least one-meter resolution satellite imagery is available. Tim Wallace with the maps: The ability to map tree… | Continue reading
Jon Keegan scraped the playlist from the local radio station’s all-Christmas playlist for a few days. Then he looked at play counts and and original composition dates: Considering the year in… | Continue reading
Edward Tufte criticized R for not being able to some things typographically. It came in a tweet and was likely misunderstood. I got a clarification from the man himself. | Continue reading
Computers can generate faces that look real. What a time to be alive. As it becomes easier to do so, you can bet that the software will be used at some point for less innocent reasons. You should p… | Continue reading
In visual perception, a figure-ground grouping is where you recognize an object through the background. Think of the vase and two faces image. Hans Hack made a simple tool that lets you make such a… | Continue reading
Euclid’s Elements is a series of 13 books produced in 300 BC that forms a collection of mathematician Euclid’s proofs and definitions. In 1847, Oliver Byrne recreated the first six book… | Continue reading
The debate rages on about the categorization of food items as soup, salad, or sandwich. Is a hot dog a sandwich? It has meat in bread. At what ratio of solid to liquid does a stew become a soup? Th… | Continue reading
As I watched Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai field questions from the House Judiciary Committee it was hard not to feel like there was a big gap in how the internet works and how members of Congre… | Continue reading
Google announced that Fusion Tables will be laid to rest, which highlights a need for preservation of visualization for the long-term. | Continue reading
The New York Times takes a closer look at the data that apps collect and what they know about you: At least 75 companies receive anonymous, precise location data from apps whose users enable locati… | Continue reading
Deliveroo is a service that picks up and delivers food. Data from their delivery riders showed that it was faster to ride a bike than other modes of transportation in cities. Carlton Reid for Forbe… | Continue reading
Based on data from Expedia, this is an interesting one from The Economist. Using polar coordinates, they used angle to represent percentage change in ticket prices and the radius to represent the d… | Continue reading
I’m just gonna put this xkcd comic right here. | Continue reading
You’ve seen the maps of population density. You’ve seen the jokes. But you haven’t seen population at high granularity in a 3-D view. Matt Daniels for The Pudding used a mountain … | Continue reading
Mark Hansen for The Upshot describes the search for balance between individual privacy and an accurate 2020 Census count. It turns out to not be that difficult to reconstruct person-level data from… | Continue reading
A couple of famous directors were defending animated films as a medium rather than a genre of film meant for kids. I got to thinking about the parallels to visualization. | Continue reading