One might assume decisions that swing economies worldwide were based on careful research… Tags: calculations, James Surowiecki, tariff, trade | Continue reading
When bars are stacked, we can see shifts in composition, but the layout can also make it harder to see patterns individually. Let's look at our options. Tags: categories, composition, separation | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal has a handful of charts that briefly explain trade… Tags: deficit, tariff, trade, Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
As you might expect, there is a big income difference between those with… Tags: Businessweek, education, income | Continue reading
Two-hit wonders are in between the obscure one-hit wonders and famous musicians. Chris… Tags: Billboard, Chris Dalla Riva, music, songs | Continue reading
Some people sneeze very loudly. For the Washington Post, Teddy Amenabar, Álvaro Valiño,… Tags: sneeze, Washington Post | Continue reading
Maggie Appleton is at the point in her pregnancy when there’s a lot… Tags: birth, Maggie Appleton, probability | Continue reading
The Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (SCIMap) estimates the impact of proposed… Tags: funding, government, health, research | Continue reading
Secret Base offers a much too complete history of slipping on banana peels,… Tags: banana, Secret Base | Continue reading
Here are tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from that flew across my desk in March. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Charles-Joseph Minard was born on March 27, 1781. Most who know the name… Tags: Charles-Joseph Minard | Continue reading
I guess we’re going to learn a good bit about tariffs over the… Tags: Bloomberg, tariff, tracker | Continue reading
Tariff announcements seem to waver in tone and finality depending on the day.… Tags: tariff, Washington Post | Continue reading
Any Map Puzzle by Ahmad Barclay lets you search for a location and… Tags: Ahmad Barclay, OpenStreetMap, puzzle | Continue reading
Being able to work with microdata from the American Time Use Survey, via IPUMS, means you can subset, filter, and categorize how you want. This makes it easier to explore questions. Tags: IPUMS, R | Continue reading
You’re familiar with AD and BC, but you probably haven’t heard of AiP… Tags: baseline, Jonny Thaw, time | Continue reading
23andMe, the business predicated on people sending cheek swabs to have their DNA… Tags: 23andMe, ethics, privacy | Continue reading
Spring officially started last week here in the Northern Hemisphere. For Axios, Jacque… Tags: Axios, daylight, spring | Continue reading
What if the game Asteroids used Wikipedia edits to drive the volume and… Tags: game, Kevin Payravi, Wikipedia | Continue reading
For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Jesse Dougherty analyze the… Tags: basketball, college, transfer, Washington Post | Continue reading
This is how the mortality simulation machine gets made. Tags: behind the scenes, mortality, simulation | Continue reading
With absolute certainty, you will die. When will it happen? That is a trickier question. But we can use what we know and run simulations to explore the possibilities. Tags: mortality, simulation | Continue reading
For Letterform Archive, designer Angie Wang examines a collection of chopstick sleeves as… Tags: Angie Wang, chopsticks, history, Japan, Letterform Archive | Continue reading
The purpose of onomatopoeia is to imitate sounds with words, so you might… Tags: animals, Pudding, sound, Vivian Li | Continue reading
I like this chart set from Bloomberg that shows the top brands, ranked… Tags: Bloomberg, BYD, China, market share, Tesla | Continue reading
FiveThirtyEight is gone, and along with its visualization-centric projects, so is their poll… Tags: data journalism, FiveThirtyEight, New York Times, polling | Continue reading
Leading up to the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament, the Athletic has a bracket… Tags: Athletic, basketball, NCAA, projections, tournament | Continue reading
When you enter a query in traditional search engines, you get a list… Tags: accuracy, chatbot, citations, Columbia Journalism Review | Continue reading
The “Department of Government Efficiency” keeps a “Wall of Receipts” to signal transparency… Tags: DOGE, government, spending, Upshot | Continue reading
Pam Johnson got an email from her bank about her husband’s death. The… Tags: death, Seattle Times, Social Security | Continue reading
In efforts to reduce repeat offenses in Spain thirty years ago, researchers developed… Tags: Civio, crime, prison, risk | Continue reading
For Axios, Marc Caputo reports: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an… Tags: Axios, ethics, students, visa | Continue reading
This week is about highlighting changes in data visually to make them glaringly obvious. Tags: difference | Continue reading
Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell, for Washington Post Opinion, highlight the current strategies… Tags: government, takedown, transparency, Washington Post | Continue reading
According to data from ActivTrak, people are shortening their work days with higher… Tags: Bloomberg, time, work | Continue reading
This might come as a surprise to some, but since congestion pricing in… Tags: complaints, congestion, honking, The City | Continue reading
In almost every dataset about life and people that stretches back past March… Tags: Covid, Upshot | Continue reading
From Pew Research, this political typology quiz is from four years ago but… Tags: Pew Research, politics, quiz | Continue reading
Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, highlights education research on the awkwardness of middle… Tags: Alvin Chang, belonging, education, Pudding, students | Continue reading
Last week, Disney laid off FiveThirtyEight employees and announced the site would cease… Tags: data journalism, FiveThirtyEight, teaching | Continue reading
For Our World in Data, Saloni Dattani and Lucas Rodés-Guirao analyzed the various… Tags: baby boomer, birth rate, Our World in Data | Continue reading
The first part of visualizing data usefully is making sure the data you're working with is not terrible. Tags: expectations, formatting, missing data, outlier | Continue reading
Elon Musk has been critical of government spending, as he and DOGE fire… Tags: Elon Musk, government, spending, Washington Post | Continue reading
Planet Money explains the Daily Treasury Statement from the U.S. Treasury. The data… Tags: government, Planet Money, spending, transparency, treasury | Continue reading
Nate Silver writes a few thoughts on the closing of FiveThirtyEight: For more… Tags: data journalism, Disney, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver | Continue reading
Disney is cutting news jobs, and FiveThirtyEight, which was absorbed by ABC News… Tags: data journalism, FiveThirtyEight | Continue reading
For The New York Times, Siobhan Roberts talked to mathematician and Fields Medal… Tags: Alessio Figalli, creativity, New York Times, optimization | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Ira Boudway reports on NBA basketball going too far with the… Tags: basketball, Bloomberg, optimization, sports | Continue reading