The cost of streaming services keeps going up. There are plans with and…Tags: cost, streaming, Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
The United States Geological Survey published composite maps and data for the country’s…Tags: geology, USGS | Continue reading
Reddit user ViKoToMo scraped Costco receipts from his account and made a dashboard…Tags: Costco, spending | Continue reading
Every month I collect visualization tools, datasets, and learning resources. This is the good stuff for November.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Speaking of traffic fatalities, Helsinki is doing things differently. Amanda Shendruk for Not-Ship…Tags: Amanda Shendruk, Not-Ship, traffic | Continue reading
For the Washington Post, Ian Duncan, Emmanuel Martinez, and Dylan Moriarty analyzed traffic…Tags: fatal crashes, traffic, Washington Post | Continue reading
Is your salary high, low, or somewhere in the middle? What do people with higher salaries than you do for a living?Tags: income, work | Continue reading
The Washington Post examined political contributions from the 100 wealthiest Americans, which have…Tags: billionaires, contributions, elections, politics, Washington Post | Continue reading
Randall Munroe, of xkcd, illustrated fifteen years with his wife. It is very…Tags: comic, life, Randall Munroe, xkcd | Continue reading
Government organizations love to distribute documents as PDF files. They are easy to…Tags: government, PDF, search | Continue reading
The Trans News Initiative is a collaborative effort to track news coverage of…Tags: equality, news, trans, Trans News Inititiative | Continue reading
Congress released a collection of emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox. However, as one…Tags: email, Jeffrey Epstein | Continue reading
The New York Times used a mix of media and data sources to…Tags: Camp Mystic, flood, New York Times, reconstruction | Continue reading
If Elon Musk achieves certain benchmarks for Tesla over the next decade, he…Tags: Elon Musk, jobs, money, scale, Washington Post | Continue reading
Last year, I documented my experience with Claude, the AI chatbot, for working with and visualizing data. It seemed like a good time to revisit.Tags: Claude, generative | Continue reading
Monarch butterflies somehow fly from Ontario, Canada to Mexico City, but the migration…Tags: butterflies, location, migration, New York Times, tracking | Continue reading
Congress released a cache of Jeffrey Epstein’s email threads. For the Wall Street…Tags: email, Jeffrey Epstein, Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
From the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a safety report on AI-powered…Tags: children, PIRG, safety, toy | Continue reading
In 2024, Hispanic voters in New Jersey took a hard shift to the…Tags: election, Latino, New Jersey, New York Times | Continue reading
As you might imagine, the word “democracy” has been mentioned in Congressional speeches…Tags: Alvin Chang, democracy, Pudding, text | Continue reading
Jon Bois of Secret Base is working on a documentary that covers the…Tags: baseball, mound, Secret Base | Continue reading
Drawing inspiration from early cartographers who had to make maps with limited information,…Tags: Large Language Model, mapping, Outside Text | Continue reading
In this week’s Process, we work in short-term but aim for long-term.Tags: long-term, slow, wall | Continue reading
G. Elliot Morris, for Strength in Numbers, breaks down the shift towards Democrat…Tags: demographics, election, G. Elliott Morris, margin | Continue reading
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act prevents states from discriminating by race…Tags: elections, gerrymandering, government, New York Times | Continue reading
Melissa was the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica, and the country was…Tags: Bloomberg, Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica, satellite imagery | Continue reading
For the New York Tiems, Jacqueline Gu and Cade Metz break down the…Tags: finance, New York Times, OpenAI | Continue reading
From Bloomberg: China’s exports unexpectedly contracted in October as global demand failed to…Tags: Bloomberg, China, export, trade | Continue reading
Jer Thorp visualized 10,151 species of birds as feathers, with colors based on…Tags: birds, color, Jer Thorp | Continue reading
At the beginning of this year, most people probably had little awareness or…Tags: New York Times, tariff, trade | Continue reading
The U.S. is buying a lot less from China this year, but China…Tags: China, export, tariff, trading | Continue reading
This week is about highlighting differences and visualizing characteristics over the data itself.Tags: characteristics, difference, focus | Continue reading
The administration aims to make it harder to claim disability insurance. Eli Hager,…Tags: health, insurance, ProPublica | Continue reading
In May, NOAA’s disaster database was canceled because it is related to climate.…Tags: Climate Central, database, Grist, NOAA | Continue reading
Women and men tend to spend their days differently in the United States. Varying responsibilities and priorities will do that.Tags: time use | Continue reading
Peter Oppenheimer, the chief global equity strategist for Goldman Sachs, points to the…Tags: bubbles, Financial Times, Goldman Sachs, investments, stocks | Continue reading
For the Washington Post, Travis M. Andrews, Jeremy B. Merrill, and Shelly Tan…Tags: Kennedy Center, sales, tickets, Washington Post | Continue reading
During the Camp Mystic flooding, radio communication issues may have contributed to the…Tags: Camp Mystic, coverage, Motorola, New York Times | Continue reading
The Community Geography Lab in Ohio organized a mapping project for Kent residents…Tags: history, Kent | Continue reading
Based on estimates from health research group KFF, Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano,…Tags: cost, government, healthcare, shutdown | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Jarrell Dillard and Michael Sasso report on the effects of the…Tags: Bloomberg, Bureau of Labor Statistics, government, shutdown, uncertainty | Continue reading
Todd Feathers, for Wired, reports on Alpha School, an education system for children…Tags: education, optimization, Wired | Continue reading
This is the good stuff for October.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Alina Birjuk collected croissants around the city: I got a push into starting…Tags: Alina Birjuk, collection, croissant, food | Continue reading
NBA basketball players, most notably Terry Rozier, were arrested for illegal sports betting.…Tags: cheating, gambling, sports, USA Today | Continue reading
Science Friday had mathematician Paulina Rowińska as guest to talk maps. It’s easy…Tags: geography, Paulina Rowińska, projections, Science Friday | Continue reading
Various shields are designed to block specific forces or mechanisms. For example, armor…Tags: humor, matrix, shields, xkcd | Continue reading
As fashion changes, so do the colors used each season. Sarah Constantin likes…Tags: clothes, color, fashion, Sarah Constantin, Vogue | Continue reading