Rising cost of streaming

The cost of streaming services keeps going up. There are plans with and…Tags: cost, streaming, Wall Street Journal | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 hours ago

Geologic map of the United States’ surface

The United States Geological Survey published composite maps and data for the country’s…Tags: geology, USGS | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 3 days ago

Personal dashboard for Costco spending

Reddit user ViKoToMo scraped Costco receipts from his account and made a dashboard…Tags: Costco, spending | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 days ago

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, November 2025 Roundup

Every month I collect visualization tools, datasets, and learning resources. This is the good stuff for November.Tags: roundup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 days ago

Towards zero traffic fatalities

Speaking of traffic fatalities, Helsinki is doing things differently. Amanda Shendruk for Not-Ship…Tags: Amanda Shendruk, Not-Ship, traffic | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 days ago

Mapping the most dangerous intersections for pedestrians

For the Washington Post, Ian Duncan, Emmanuel Martinez, and Dylan Moriarty analyzed traffic…Tags: fatal crashes, traffic, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 days ago

Who Makes a Higher Salary – and the Jobs They Work

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


@flowingdata.com | 6 days ago

Growing political contributions from billionaires

The Washington Post examined political contributions from the 100 wealthiest Americans, which have…Tags: billionaires, contributions, elections, politics, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Randall Munroe, of xkcd, illustrated fifteen years with his wife. It is very…Tags: comic, life, Randall Munroe, xkcd | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 10 days ago

Making 10M government PDF documents searchable

Government organizations love to distribute documents as PDF files. They are easy to…Tags: government, PDF, search | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 12 days ago

Timeline for news coverage of trans communities

The Trans News Initiative is a collaborative effort to track news coverage of…Tags: equality, news, trans, Trans News Inititiative | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 days ago

Epstein emails presented as a Gmail inbox

Congress released a collection of emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox. However, as one…Tags: email, Jeffrey Epstein | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 days ago

Visual reconstruction of flooding at Camp Mystic

The New York Times used a mix of media and data sources to…Tags: Camp Mystic, flood, New York Times, reconstruction | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 17 days ago

Scale of one trillion dollars

If Elon Musk achieves certain benchmarks for Tesla over the next decade, he…Tags: Elon Musk, jobs, money, scale, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 18 days ago

✚ Claude, a year later

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


@flowingdata.com | 18 days ago

Scientists can track individual butterflies with tiny sensors

Monarch butterflies somehow fly from Ontario, Canada to Mexico City, but the migration…Tags: butterflies, location, migration, New York Times, tracking | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 19 days ago

Name mentions in Epstein email cache

Congress released a cache of Jeffrey Epstein’s email threads. For the Wall Street…Tags: email, Jeffrey Epstein, Wall Street Journal | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 19 days ago

Troubling AI-powered toys

From the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a safety report on AI-powered…Tags: children, PIRG, safety, toy | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 days ago

Shifts back to the left for Hispanic voters

In 2024, Hispanic voters in New Jersey took a hard shift to the…Tags: election, Latino, New Jersey, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 days ago

Threats to democracy in the Congressional Record

As you might imagine, the word “democracy” has been mentioned in Congressional speeches…Tags: Alvin Chang, democracy, Pudding, text | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 24 days ago

Database of mound charging in baseball

Jon Bois of Secret Base is working on a documentary that covers the…Tags: baseball, mound, Secret Base | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 24 days ago

Testing views of Earth through an LLM’s internals

Drawing inspiration from early cartographers who had to make maps with limited information,…Tags: Large Language Model, mapping, Outside Text | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 25 days ago

✚ Disposable insights, quickly forgotten

In this week’s Process, we work in short-term but aim for long-term.Tags: long-term, slow, wall | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 25 days ago

Shifts left for every demographic group, 2025 elections

G. Elliot Morris, for Strength in Numbers, breaks down the shift towards Democrat…Tags: demographics, election, G. Elliott Morris, margin | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 26 days ago

Imagining an extreeeeeme gerrymandered future

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act prevents states from discriminating by race…Tags: elections, gerrymandering, government, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 26 days ago

Damage by Hurricane Melissa, seen through satellite imagery

Melissa was the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica, and the country was…Tags: Bloomberg, Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica, satellite imagery | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 28 days ago

More OpenAI circular deals

For the New York Tiems, Jacqueline Gu and Cade Metz break down the…Tags: finance, New York Times, OpenAI | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 28 days ago

China exports down in October

From Bloomberg: China’s exports unexpectedly contracted in October as global demand failed to…Tags: Bloomberg, China, export, trade | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

10k bird species visualized with feathers

Jer Thorp visualized 10,151 species of birds as feathers, with colors based on…Tags: birds, color, Jer Thorp | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Tariffs on U.S. imports, variable by country

At the beginning of this year, most people probably had little awareness or…Tags: New York Times, tariff, trade | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Chinese exports grow, without the U.S.

The U.S. is buying a lot less from China this year, but China…Tags: China, export, tariff, trading | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Spot the difference

This week is about highlighting differences and visualizing characteristics over the data itself.Tags: characteristics, difference, focus | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

With new rules for disability insurance, states that will be affected the most

The administration aims to make it harder to claim disability insurance. Eli Hager,…Tags: health, insurance, ProPublica | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Non-profit takes over a canceled NOAA database

In May, NOAA’s disaster database was canceled because it is related to climate.…Tags: Climate Central, database, Grist, NOAA | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

How Men and Women Spend Their Days

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


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Looking for an AI bubble in the markets

Peter Oppenheimer, the chief global equity strategist for Goldman Sachs, points to the…Tags: bubbles, Financial Times, Goldman Sachs, investments, stocks | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Big drop in Kennedy Center ticket sales

For the Washington Post, Travis M. Andrews, Jeremy B. Merrill, and Shelly Tan…Tags: Kennedy Center, sales, tickets, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Camp Mystic map of spotty radio coverage, compared to a more complete proposal

During the Camp Mystic flooding, radio communication issues may have contributed to the…Tags: Camp Mystic, coverage, Motorola, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Community 3-D-printed map

The Community Geography Lab in Ohio organized a mapping project for Kent residents…Tags: history, Kent | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Increasing cost of healthcare if tax subsidies not extended

Based on estimates from health research group KFF, Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano,…Tags: cost, government, healthcare, shutdown | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Decisions without data

For Bloomberg, Jarrell Dillard and Michael Sasso report on the effects of the…Tags: Bloomberg, Bureau of Labor Statistics, government, shutdown, uncertainty | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Over-optimized children’s education for software metrics

Todd Feathers, for Wired, reports on Alpha School, an education system for children…Tags: education, optimization, Wired | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, October 2025 Roundup

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


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Collecting all the croissants in Zürich

Alina Birjuk collected croissants around the city: I got a push into starting…Tags: Alina Birjuk, collection, croissant, food | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Statistics to find cheating sports gamblers

NBA basketball players, most notably Terry Rozier, were arrested for illegal sports betting.…Tags: cheating, gambling, sports, USA Today | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Math to map the world

Science Friday had mathematician Paulina Rowińska as guest to talk maps. It’s easy…Tags: geography, Paulina Rowińska, projections, Science Friday | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

xkcd shielding vs. forces matrix

Various shields are designed to block specific forces or mechanisms. For example, armor…Tags: humor, matrix, shields, xkcd | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Fashion color counting

As fashion changes, so do the colors used each season. Sarah Constantin likes…Tags: clothes, color, fashion, Sarah Constantin, Vogue | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago