xkcd charted topics that seemed like they’d come up often with grown ups… Tags: adulthood, childhood, humor, xkcd | Continue reading
Visualization quality is often measured by speed and efficiency, which leads to temporary and fleeting presentation work. Maybe we optimize for longevity and see what happens. Tags: longevity | Continue reading
As we have learned over the years, there can never be enough color-picking… Tags: color, R | Continue reading
In the United States, a two-party system means that candidates, who are supposed… Tags: government, multiparty, New York Times, politics | Continue reading
BBC went with the gradient-filled frequency trails to show the distribution of daily… Tags: BBC, climate change, global warming | Continue reading
This is some good step charting by Mira Rojanasakul for the New York… Tags: climate change, global warming, New York Times | Continue reading
For Reuters, Simon Scarr, Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa, and Sudev Kiyada use flight data… Tags: firefight, flight, Reuters, wildfire | Continue reading
The Guardian provides a visual guide to the damage in Los Angeles with… Tags: damage, Guardian, wildfire | Continue reading
Bartosz Ciechanowski used his style of interactive essay, with many sliders, graphics, and… Tags: Bartosz Ciechanowski, moon, space | Continue reading
Past and current charts influence future charts. Should you credit the past work? At what point does homage become plagiarism? If you're the original creator, are you pleased or annoyed? Tags: remix | Continue reading
Those who keep a daily journal typically record with words, photos, and video.… Tags: embroidery, icons, journal, Sophie O'Neill | Continue reading
Sentinel-2 satellite of the European Space Agency captured an image of the Palisades… Tags: Palisades, satellite imagery, wildfire | Continue reading
Based on data from NOAA, the New York Times shows the direction and… Tags: New York Times, wildfire, wind | Continue reading
The Washington Post illustrates how air flows from the Great Basin, over the… Tags: Los Angeles, Washington Post, wildfire, wind | Continue reading
This California wildfires map from Los Angeles Times shows an up-to-date status in… Tags: California, Los Angeles Times, wildfire | Continue reading
Pew Research published their annual report on what social media U.S. 13- to… Tags: Pew Research, social media | Continue reading
Areas represent total counts and the colors indicate categories. Together, the symbols show the distributions in a population. Tags: Illustrator, R | Continue reading
For NYT’s the Upshot, Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz, and Nick Thieme report on… Tags: Baltimore Banner, Big Local News, drugs, generations, overdose, Upshot | Continue reading
1,580 people were charged with federal crimes for the riot at the U.S.… Tags: conviction, riots, Washington Post | Continue reading
In an effort to reduce traffic, New York launched a program that charges… Tags: congestion, New York, tolls, traffic | Continue reading
Bloomberg put together a list of places to visit in 2025. Most of… Tags: Bloomberg, prices, travel | Continue reading
I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this Star Wars map, but I… Tags: fiction, Star Wars | Continue reading
As my father-in-law’s Facebook feed would suggest, the “algorithm” has a way of… Tags: algorithm, creation, New York Times | Continue reading
I haven’t reviewed a year on FlowingData since 2020, which seems like a… Tags: annual review | Continue reading
Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024. Tags: best-of | Continue reading
Fabien Wagner works with CTrees in an effort to map tree canopy height… Tags: CTrees, Fabien Wagner, rainforest, tree | Continue reading
Because of a warming planet with more wildfires and hurricanes, it’s growing more… Tags: climate, insurance, New York Times | Continue reading
For the New York Times, Marco Hernandez visualized all the tornadoes in 2024,… Tags: New York Times, tornado | Continue reading
By just about every metric, flights are slower now than they were 30… Tags: airlines, schedule, Upshot | Continue reading
Christmas is coming. For some, that means snow on the ground, but as… Tags: Bloomberg, Christmas, climate, snow | Continue reading
Jordan Cunliffe uses embroidery to explore and visualize data. This year, headed towards… Tags: Advent, embroidery, Jordan Cunliffe | Continue reading
This is a fun one by Dylan Moriarty for the Washington Post. Punch… Tags: Christmas, snow, Washington Post, weather | Continue reading
Researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome estimated the time it takes… Tags: city, local, walking | Continue reading
Here’s the good stuff for the month: things to use, things to poke at, and things to learn from. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Probability itself is an expression of uncertainty, but the calculations behind the percentages… Tags: David Spiegelhalter, probability, uncertainty | Continue reading
Not to dwell on Musk, but I was reminded of this dot plot… Tags: Economist, Elon Musk, Twitter | Continue reading
As you can imagine, Elon Musk, the owner of X, has a prominent… Tags: Elon Musk, social media, Washington Post, X | Continue reading
Here's the current landscape of supermarket parent companies and their subsidiaries — national chains, regional, local, co-ops, specialty, ethnic, and discount. Tags: chains, grocery | Continue reading
There was a brouhaha a couple months ago over research that suggested black… Tags: baseline, plastic, research | Continue reading
For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and… Tags: location, military, privacy, Wired | Continue reading
For Works in Progress, Jared Hutchins explains how milk production increased per cow,… Tags: cows, milk, Works in Progress | Continue reading
Usually we focus on actual data points for insights, but we can also highlight the spaces between for a flipped point of view. Tags: missing data | Continue reading
For Reuters, Arathy J Aluckal, Jitesh Chowdhury, and Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa illustrate how… Tags: mpox, Reuters, virus | Continue reading
For NBC News, Joe Murphy shows the play rate on Last.fm for Mariah… Tags: Christmas, Mariah Carey, NBC News, song | Continue reading
About half of people have private health insurance through an employer. However, the other half get their insurance from elsewhere or through a combination of sources. Tags: healthcare, insurance | Continue reading
Word clouds show key terms or phrases that appear in a body of… Tags: literature, Martin Wattenberg | Continue reading
Some jobs require a lot of standing, crouching, and climbing, whereas other jobs… Tags: Alvin Chang, Pudding, sitting, standing, work | Continue reading
Liuhuaying Yang aims to clarify the names and sounds that get lost when… Tags: Chinese, language, Liuhuaying Yang, names | Continue reading