Here are the useful tools and resources that came out of April. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
The Marshall Project highlights research on excess mortality in U.S. prisons: The slowdown… Tags: Marshall Project, mortality, pandemic | Continue reading
Sleepy time varies as responsibilities shift. Tags: sleep, time use | Continue reading
One of the challenges of understanding the weight of climate change is that… Tags: climate change, future, Tardigrade | Continue reading
Using a series of graphics, Reuters explains Israel’s defense against rockets, also known… Tags: defense, Israel, missile, Reuters | Continue reading
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing… Tags: mortgage, Upshot | Continue reading
Small changes over time or small differences between categories can easily look insignificant, even if they're worth noting in real life. Here are chart options for you. Tags: change, difference, small | Continue reading
Two-thirds of adults get at least 7 hours of sleep. I am not in that two-thirds. Tags: rest, sleep | Continue reading
There are packages to make cartograms, but in some cases you might need a more flexible solution. Tags: R | Continue reading
In 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt mandated that those of Japanese descent be sent… Tags: census, Japantown, racism, San Francisco Chronicle | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Daniela Sirtori, Madeline Campbell, and Marie Patino do some product counting:… Tags: Bloomberg, ingredient, safety | Continue reading
I missed this announcement at the end of last year: Sherwood Media, LLC… Tags: acquisition, Chartr, Sherwood | Continue reading
The National Longitudinal Surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are unique in… Tags: Alvin Chang, development, Pudding, teenager | Continue reading
A decade and a half ago, I wrote the first edition of Visualize… Tags: writing | Continue reading
NatureQuant processes and analyzes satellite imagery to quantify people’s access to nature. They… Tags: cities, nature, NatureQuant, satellite imagery, Washington Post | Continue reading
People need a sense of how distributions work before they can make sense of a histogram. Here's how I (try to) make these misunderstood charts easier to read. Tags: annotation, highlight | Continue reading
As you might expect, the path of totality brought increased activities as people… Tags: eclipse, New York Times, people | Continue reading
Variation kicks in when you look at the later years, consider multiple marriages, divorce, separation, and opposite-sex versus same-sex relationships. This chart breaks it all down. | Continue reading
From xkcd, a Rube Goldberg machine that keeps on going. Edit a cell… Tags: Rube Goldberg machine, xkcd | Continue reading
Maybe you heard there’s a total eclipse happening today. AirDNA mapped Airbnb occupancy… Tags: Airbnb, AirDNA, eclipse | Continue reading
The easystats R package in on my to-try list. easystats is a collection… Tags: package, R | Continue reading
Show all the data at once so that you can see a full trend efficiently, but show a bit at a time and show how the data builds. Tags: interaction, play | Continue reading
Joanie Lemercier used a grid of spinning paddles that turn with the wind.… Tags: Joanie Lemercier, physical, wind | Continue reading
Alexander Miller wrote a “fable of emergence” that combines Conway’s Game of Life… Tags: Alexander Miller, fable, Game of Life | Continue reading
It continues to get easier to take someone’s face and put that person… Tags: AI, ethics, porn, The Markup | Continue reading
OpenAI previewed Voice Engine, a model to generate voices that mimic, using just… Tags: ethics, generative, OpenAI, voice | Continue reading
For Knowing Machines, an ongoing research project that examines the innards of machine… Tags: bias, Knowing Machines, LAION-5B, machine learning | Continue reading
Alasdair Rae outlines the basics of visualizing basketball shot data with QGIS, an… Tags: Alasdair Rae, basketball, QGIS | Continue reading
I collect visualization tools and learning resources and then round them up at the end of each month. Here's the good stuff for March. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Satellite imagery on its own can be limited in what it can say… Tags: Nightingale, Robert Simmon, satellite imagery, storytelling | Continue reading
This is a fun project by Jan Willem Tulp. Based on data from… Tags: history, Jan Willem Tulp, timeline | Continue reading
To gain a better understanding of how ChatGPT works under the hood, Santiago… Tags: AI, ChatGPT, Santiago Ortiz | Continue reading
Alec Singh added another dimension to Conway’s Game of Life for a pretty,… Tags: Alec Singh, Game of Life | Continue reading
Find out when it's your time for the glasses and hearing aid. Time is undefeated. Tags: age, hearing, vision | Continue reading
If a chart is seen by enough people, someone will call it misleading. There are no exceptions. Tags: misleading | Continue reading
The World Happiness Report, published each year since 2012, just dropped for 2024.… Tags: happiness, rank | Continue reading
Jer Thorp has combined birding and data visualization into a unique course called… Tags: birds, Jer Thorp, learning | Continue reading
For Rest of World, Victoria Turk breaks down bias in generative AI in… Tags: AI, bias, midjourney, Rest of World | Continue reading
This looks fun. The Pudding is running an experiment that functions like a… Tags: loss, Pudding, Russell Samora, sketch | Continue reading
Bartosz Ciechanowski is at it again with an in-depth explainer that makes heavy… Tags: airfoil, Bartosz Ciechanowski, flight | Continue reading
On April 8, 2024, the moon is going to completely block the sun… Tags: eclipse, satellite imagery, Washington Post | Continue reading
For the past few years, Laurie Anderson has been using an AI chatbot… Tags: AI, chatbot, Guardian, Large Language Model | Continue reading
Every chart type has its trade-offs. So instead of trying to show everything at once, use multiple views to show things separate. Tags: multiples, simplicity | Continue reading
For the New York Times, Eve Kahn describes the use of maps outside… Tags: decor, New York Times | Continue reading
How common are wide age gaps between spouses? These are the age differences through the lens of the 2022 five-year American Community Survey.Tags: age, marriage, relationships | Continue reading
AI is finding its way into the HR workflow to sift through resumes. This seems like a decent idea on the surface, until you realize that the models that the AI is built on lean more towards certain… | Continue reading
For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia and Emily Badger model how colleges might promote diversity in admissions without (directly) considering race. A set of scatter plots show a theoretical st… | Continue reading
Rolling Stone published a list in 2003 that ranked the 500 greatest albums of all time. The list was updated in 2020, and there was a lot of change. For The Pudding, Chris Dalla Riva and Matthew Da… | Continue reading