Movie runtimes framed by life expectancy

Memento Movi, a mini-app by Michael Condouris, is what you get when you… Tags: humor, Michael Condouris, mortality | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 day ago

Rainbow Sky, the colors mentioned on Bluesky

Martin Wattenberg drew up a live visualization that shows colors mentioned in Bluesky… Tags: Bluesky, color, firehose, Martin Wattenberg | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 day ago

✚ Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, November 2024 Roundup

Here's the good stuff for the month: things to use, things to poke at, and things to learn from. Tags: roundup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 days ago

Our World in Data wants you to use their data with improved export and API

Our World in Data is a hub for research and reliable data to… Tags: API, Our World in Data | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 days ago

LLM-driven robot made of garbage

We like to imagine a world of autonomous robots that take care of… Tags: Chris Fenton, Large Language Model, robot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 days ago

Foursquare open sources location data

Foursquare, which I thought was still a location sharing app but is a… Tags: foursquare, location | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 3 days ago

Temperature tree blanket

Speaking of data blankets, the knitting club in the area I live has… Tags: blanket, crochet, physical, temperature | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 3 days ago

Bathymetry blanket crochet

Jesse Gwinn, from NOAA, was at sea on a mapping expedition and to… Tags: bathymetry, crochet, ocean, physical | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 3 days ago

Emoji rain and Bluesky Matrix

Bluesky firehose fun continues. Jared Short shows emoji usage as rain drops that… Tags: Bluesky, emoji, firehose, Jared Short | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 3 days ago

Stream of deleted Bluesky posts

To demonstrate how easy and cheap it is to access the Bluesky firehose,… Tags: Bluesky, deletion, firehose | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 days ago

Tunnel through the live Bluesky firehose

Bluesky has a relatively easy-to-use firehose that lets you dip into the stream… Tags: Bluesky, firehose, Theo Sanderson | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 days ago

Mike Tyson Fights Against Age

A timeline showing the age difference between Mike Tyson and his opponents, over his career that started in 1985. Tags: age, boxing, Mike Tyson | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 days ago

Participation in the annual United Nations climate conference

For the New York Times, Mira Rojanasakul visualized annual participation in the United… Tags: climate change, New York Times, United Nations | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 days ago

✚ Make the Chart: Interactive Line Chart with Ghost Trails

Using faded lines to show the overall changes in a time series and to provide a point of reference for the present. Tags: d3js, JavaScript | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 days ago

Swooping vote margins

The New York Times used swooping arrows to show vote swings left and… Tags: election, margin, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 8 days ago

Margin of victory over past elections, in Minnesota

For the Minnesota Star Tribune, Yuqing Liu and C.J. Sinner show how the… Tags: election, margin, Minnesota Star Tribune | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 8 days ago

✚ Connect the Charts

This week we look at connecting multiple charts explicitly and implicitly to provide a cohesive narrative or visual metaphor around a dataset. Tags: connections | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 9 days ago

Employment Rates and Age, Change Over Decades

We can see the changing scales of who works and for how long through employment rates by age and time. Tags: age, employment, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 9 days ago

Evolution of the love song

For The Pudding, David Mora and Michelle Jia examine the death of the… Tags: David Mora, love, Michelle Jia, Pudding, song | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 10 days ago

See you on Bluesky

Bluesky, maybe best pitched as a place for those who liked Twitter and… | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 11 days ago

Dot density map for election results

With what is now a common mapping method, The Economist used a dot… Tags: Economist, election | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 11 days ago

Mapping every voter as a grain of sand

To show the mix of votes across the country, the Washington Post used… Tags: election, metaphor, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 11 days ago

Days without rain

New York City recently issued a drought warning because of an abnormally dry… Tags: Bloomberg, drought, rain | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 11 days ago

23andMe sinking

For BBC, Zoe Kleinman reports: Not so long ago, 23andMe was in the… Tags: 23andMe, BBC | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 12 days ago

What might have sank the Bayesian superyacht

A $40 million superyacht called the Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily,… Tags: New York Times, superyacht | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 15 days ago

✚ Random Everyday Walk

This week we talk randomness in the everyday. Tags: random, uncertainty | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

✚ Make the Chart: Scatterplot Using Text Instead of Dots

I made a chart about Halloween candy. Even dumb charts need attention and require that choices are made. Tags: Illustrator, R | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

European night train map

The Night Train Map is for Europeans who want to travel at night:… Tags: Europe, train, travel | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

Restored rose and lily illustrations from the Pierre-Joseph Redouté collection

In the early 1800s, botanist and painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté painted hundreds of lily… Tags: catalog, flowers, Nicholas Rougeux, Pierre-Joseph Redouté | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 17 days ago

Jello map as states are called

The Bloomberg Graphics desk is building out a jello map as states are… Tags: Bloomberg, election, food, physical | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 18 days ago

Electoral vote cartogram

The major news outlets all have electoral vote cartograms, but I appreciate Bloomberg’s… Tags: Bloomberg, election | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 18 days ago

Why states swing while counts come in

Some might wonder why early results lean towards a party and then shift… Tags: election, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 18 days ago

Live map of county shifts

The Washington Post has a live county map that shows the shift towards… Tags: election, tracker, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 18 days ago

Election touchscreen really deep dive by The Onion

The Onion gained access to the most granular election data yet. Technology sure… Tags: election, humor, Onion, scale | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 18 days ago

Presidential candidate preferences, by offbeat demographics

You’ve seen the voting tendencies among standard demographic groups, but there is so… Tags: demographics, election, YouGov | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 18 days ago

When to expect results from each state, based on previous elections

Some states count quickly, whereas others can take days. For NYT, Alicia Parlapiano… Tags: elections, results | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 18 days ago

When the polls close

For The New York Times, June Kim, Leanne Abraham, and Maggie Astor provide… Tags: election, New York Times, time | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 18 days ago

50/50 Spins

For no particular reason on this particular day, here are spinners to try your hand at random everyday things with even odds. Good luck. Tags: chance, probability, uncertainty | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 18 days ago

Winning the Electoral College, a mini-game

For The New York Times, Lily Boyce, Jon Huang, and Blacki Migliozzi made… Tags: election, Electoral College, game, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 19 days ago

Drying of the Aral Sea and its source rivers

NPR reports on the drying Central Asia water sources. The Aral Sea has… Tags: Aral Sea, climate change, NPR, satellite imagery | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 22 days ago

Halloween Candy Ratings by Cost and Love

This is very important. How did your favorite candy rate? The old… Tags: candy, Halloween | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 23 days ago

✚ Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, October 2024 Roundup

Here is the good stuff for October. Tags: roundup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 23 days ago

People moving towards political affiliation

For NYT Upshot, Ronda Kaysen and Ethan Singer compared current voter registration data… Tags: movement, polarization, politics, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 23 days ago

Uniform flair on the rise in NBA basketball games

In NBA basketball, the home team used to almost always wear a white… Tags: basketball, Pudding, uniform | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 23 days ago

Election ad views for Democrats and Republicans

For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek compared ad views per household: To figure out… Tags: ads, election, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 24 days ago

Presidential Election Chances, Practice Run

See how different probabilities lead to different outcomes with an interactive chart. Tags: election, probability | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 24 days ago

Early voting turnout

Early voting isn’t coming in as hot as in 2020, but there are… Tags: election, turnout, voting, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 25 days ago

World map of tides

From Dave Taylor, this world map shows tidal ranges, from microtidal to macrotidal:… Tags: Dave Taylor, tides | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 26 days ago