Flip in win probability for Knicks vs. Spurs

Speaking of when data flips, last night in game four of the 2026…Tags: basketball, Inpredictable, probability, wins | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 9 hours ago

✚ Showing when the data flips

This week, we focus on when there is a sudden change or flip in the data that you want to highlight.Tags: difference, highlight | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 hours ago

Elon Musk’s promise achievement rate over the years

The New York Times counted Elon Musk’s promises on X/Twitter and Tesla earnings…Tags: Elon Musk, goals, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 hours ago

Heat stress in the World Cup

It’s going to be hot in North America as the World Cup 2026…Tags: Bloomberg, soccer, temperature, World Cup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 day ago

Overlap of endangered whale calls with sonic blasts

Companies use seismic airguns in the Gulf of Mexico to find oil and…Tags: New York Times, ocean, sound, whale | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 days ago

Melting glaciers in the Alps

For Bloomberg, Laura Millan, Kyle Kim, and Armand Emamdjomeh mapped the projected extent…Tags: Bloomberg, glaciers, global warming, melting | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 days ago

Bot traffic surpasses human traffic

Traffic has been rising extra quickly these past couple of years. Unfortunately (or…Tags: bot, Cloudflare, Internet, scraping | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 3 days ago

What LLM speed looks like when generating output

LLM speed is commonly expressed as tokens per second, which is kind of…Tags: Large Language Model, speed, token | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 days ago

Comparing SpaceX IPO against past offerings

For Bloomberg, Demetrios Pogkas, Jennah Haque, and Kiel Porter show the projected scale…Tags: Bloomberg, investments, IPO, SpaceX | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

✚ Visualization is not the goal

This week, we look past the chart and ponder its true purpose.Tags: analysis, template | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

Arguing for the billionaire wealth tax

For NYT Opinion, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman make a case for a…Tags: billionaires, New York Times, taxes, wealth | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

Ebola outbreak trajectories

For NBC News, Jane Weaver, Jiachuan Wu, and Javier Zarracina report on the…Tags: ebola, NBC News, outbreak | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

Rise in remote work a factor in young worker unemployment

Higher unemployment among young workers has been commonly attributed to generative AI. In…Tags: remote, unemployment, work, young | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 8 days ago

K-Pop growth before the global phenomenon

For the Pudding, Minji Kim and Eunice Lee wrote about the growth of…Tags: Eunice Lee, K-pop, Minji Kim, Pudding | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 8 days ago

Population in Japan continues decline

Japan has been aging and having fewer children, which led to a decline…Tags: Japan, New York Times, population | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 9 days ago

U.S. names with the oldest population

Erin Davis calculated the average age of people with a given name to…Tags: age, Erin Davis, names | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 10 days ago

Names from Census data

The U.S. Census Bureau released a names dataset for first names and surnames.…Tags: Census Bureau, names | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 10 days ago

Voters shifting away from the two-party system

U.S. voters have historically stuck with two political parties, but that’s changing in…Tags: multiparty, USAFacts, voting | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 days ago

Selling a house with AI

Stuart A. Thompson, a New York Times technology journalist, used Google’s Gemini chatbot…Tags: chatbot, house, New York Times, sales, Stuart A. Thompson | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 14 days ago

More difficult for recent graduates to find jobs

For the Washington Post, Federica Cocco and Taylor Telford report on the increasing…Tags: unemployment, Washington Post, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 14 days ago

✚ Visualization tools, resources, and data, May 2026 roundup

Every month I collect tools, data, and resources to make better charts. Here's what happened in May.Tags: roundup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 14 days ago

Sports gambling ads everywhere

For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill, Jonathan O’Connell, and Luke Connors built…Tags: advertising, gambling, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 15 days ago

Comparison of Trump and Putin visits to China

Trump visited China, and then Putin visited a week later. Reuters compared the…Tags: China, difference, Reuters | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

Magnifica Humanitas from Pope Leo

Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which translates to Magnificent…Tags: encyclical, humanity, Pope Leo XIV | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

Declining birth rates globally

Birth rates are falling nearly everywhere. For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch explores why…Tags: birth rate, Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch, relationships | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 17 days ago

Daily schedule of seniors caring for seniors

An aging population means more seniors 65 years and older are taking care…Tags: age, schedule, senior, Straits Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 days ago

Inflation cherrypicking

U.S. inflation is high, and the prices of almost everything are rising fast…Tags: cherrypicking, dishonest, inflation | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 days ago

Stacking home prices against income

As a ratio of home prices to household income, the cost of buying…Tags: cost, house, income, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 21 days ago

✚ Weakness of a bar chart

This week, we talk limitations of the defaultiest of defaultiest chart types.Tags: options, precision, variation | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 21 days ago

ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if generative AI not kept in check

Speaking of careless AI usage, the open-access archive for research papers, ArXiv, is…Tags: ArXiv, ban, research, slop | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 22 days ago

FiveThirtyEight scrubbed from the internet

Disney shutdown FiveThirtyEight last year, but the archive stayed online. Well, they got…Tags: ABC News, Disney, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver, shutdown | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 23 days ago

Book about future of truth contains generated quotes

Steven Rosenbaum wrote The Future of Truth, a book about AI and reality…Tags: New York Times, quote, Steven Rosenbaum, truth, writing | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 23 days ago

Analysis of similes in literature

For the Pudding, Russell Samora, with design and illustration by Shelly Tan, analyzed…Tags: fiction, Pudding, Russell Samora, simile, words | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 23 days ago

Atlas of Global Development

World Bank, which releases an atlas every few years, published an Atlas of…Tags: atlas, world, World Bank | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 24 days ago

History of Eurovision song themes and lyrics

The Eurovision Song Contest is in its 70th year. Every year, each country…Tags: Eurovision, Giuseppe Sollazzo, lyrics, songs | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 27 days ago

Field guide for federal data

Denice W. Ross and Christopher Steven Marcum, from the University of California at…Tags: field guide, government | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 27 days ago

More people losing money in prediction markets

For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill and Leslie Shapiro visualized users who…Tags: loss, money, Polymarket, prediction market, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 28 days ago

✚ Outside the bubbles

This week, we refresh an old chart with new data, interaction, and improved design.Tags: behind the scenes, social media | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 28 days ago

Poor geometry in deepfake images

Science profiled Hany Farid, a researcher in digital forensics at the University of…Tags: generative, geometry, Science Magazine | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 29 days ago

Rising prices at the grocery store

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published cost estimates for April 2026. If…Tags: grocery, inflation, war, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Men leaving the workforce

The percentage of U.S. men in the workforce has been declining for decades,…Tags: men, Washington Post, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Effects of El Niño, a map

Raymond Zhong and Harry Stevens, for the New York Times, go with a…Tags: climate change, El Niño, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Getting oil to the gas tank from the Strait of Hormuz

For the New York Times, Agnes Chang and Pablo Robles illustrate the journey…Tags: illustration, New York Times, oil, Strait of Hormuz | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Occupations with the highest divorce rates

Some jobs tend towards higher divorce rates and some lower.Tags: divorce, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

State healthcare sites sending data to tech companies

For Bloomberg, Tanaz Meghjani, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Surya Mattu report sharing of private…Tags: Bloomberg, government, privacy | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Restraint in the visualization process

This week is about constraints.Tags: constraints | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Visualizing history within a grid

For the Public Domain Review, Hunter Dukes and Adam Green visit Antoni Jażwiński’s…Tags: grid, Public Domain Review | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Increasing costs in the beef supply chain

Beef prices keep going up a noticeable amount in grocery stores. For Bloomberg,…Tags: beef, Bloomberg, cost, inflation, supply | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago