UK party gains and winners

Speaking of Conservatives losing, Andre Tartar and Demetrios Pogkas for Bloomberg show the… Tags: Bloomberg, election | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 21 days ago

Conservatives lose UK election by a lot

For the New York Times, Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby show how the… Tags: elections, loss, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 21 days ago

Visually navigate code as stars and galaxies

Andrei Kashcha visualized major software packages as galaxies that you can fly through.… Tags: Andrei Kashcha, code, galaxies | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 21 days ago

Seeing the world after Google Streetview

Trevor Rainbolt is really good at geolocating a place given a single frame… Tags: Google Streetview, New York Times, Trevor Rainbolt | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 23 days ago

FlowingData at 17

Last week marked 17 years running this small corner of the internet on… Tags: birthday | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 24 days ago

Shrinking down to the size of an atom

In a different take on showing the scale of very tiny things, Epic… Tags: Epic Spaceman, scale, small | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 24 days ago

Age differences between world leaders and the populations they serve

The ages of American presidential candidates are old when compared to the ages… Tags: age, government, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 25 days ago

Estimating Covid deaths

It’s impossible to know the exact number of Covid deaths worldwide, because consistent… Tags: coronavirus, counting, estimation, Howtown | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 28 days ago

✚ Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, June 2024 Roundup

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


@flowingdata.com | 29 days ago

Searching for the hardest and easiest Spelling Bee puzzels

Christopher Wolfram explains his “unnecessarily detailed analysis” of the spelling game from the… Tags: Christopher Wolfram, game, Spelling Bee | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 29 days ago

Decade-Long Battle for “Yogurt” vs. “Yoghurt” on Wikipedia

After years of enthusiastic discussions, editors eventually and begrudgingly came to a conclusion. Tags: spelling, Wikipedia, yogurt | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Changing climate zones of major cities

A global map of climate change can make a few degrees of rising… Tags: climate, Derek Taylor, global warming, Pudding | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Trendy baby name sounds

For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura… Tags: names, trends, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Where State Farm Insurance is dropping home policies

State Farm won’t be renewing about 30,000 policies because of high wildfire and… Tags: insurance, San Francisco Chronicle, State Farm | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Games to Explore Data and Possibilities

Visualization and analysis is usually about minimizing uncertainty to more clearly see patterns. On the other hand, games force you to play through uncertainty. Tags: games, uncertainty | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Perplexity is probably stealing content

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman provide evidence that Perplexity, an AI-based… Tags: AI, ethics, ownership, Perplexity, Wired | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

AI-generated email from a friend

Neven Mrgan describes what it was like to get an AI-generated email from… Tags: AI, email, Neven Mrgan | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Heat tracker for the U.S.

It’s abnormally hot in a large portion of the United States, and it’s… Tags: heat, New York Times, warning | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Older or Younger than the Population

As you get older, it might start to feel like everyone is getting younger around you. At what point are you older than the majority? Tags: age, old, young | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Analysis of Sudoku play patterns

Vivek Rao likes to play Sudoku, enough that he collected data on his… Tags: game, Sudoku, Vivek Rao | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe

Thinking about life and randomness, Cameron Sun modified the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe.… Tags: Cameron Sun, game, probability | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Towards Unfamiliar Data Representation

Visualization tends towards familiarity and convenience, which is useful for getting things done and reading data quickly. But the familiar is also less fun and can be stifling. Tags: beginners, possibilities | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Occupation and Salary Rankings, Each Decade Since 1970

Job types changed over the years, because there were these things called computers that created occupations and shifted others. How did income change for different jobs, relative to everyone else? Tags: income, rank, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Mapping hurricane winds with avocado of uncertainty

Stamen, whose design breakdowns I always appreciate, discusses why they took a different… Tags: Stamen, uncertainty, wind | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Visualizing GitHub commit history in a 3-D virtual space

Ren Yuan visualized the GitHub commit history for the PyTorch library. The virtual… Tags: 3-d, GitHub, Ren Yuan, sonification | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Hockey player tracking projected on ice for live watch party

During the Dallas Stars away games during this year’s NHL playoffs, fans could… Tags: hockey, motion tracking, physical, SMT, sports | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Dr Pepper ties with Pepsi-Cola for number two soda

Dr Pepper steadily rose and Pepsi steadily declined over the past couple of… Tags: Beverage Digest, Dr Pepper, Pepsi, soda, Wall Street Journal | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Chart Options to Cut Through the Noise and See Patterns

Sometimes the noise in a dataset makes it hard to see the worthwhile patterns when you visualize it. Here are chart options for you. Tags: noise, options | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

About a dog

For NYT, Sam Anderson, with illustrations by Gaia Alari, tells the story of… Tags: dogs, New York Times, pets, storytelling | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Currently, a light display that shows where your energy is from

Currently is a prototype ambient display that shows where your energy comes from.… Tags: energy, light, Universal Everything | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

California property taxes, through the Painted Ladies houses

The Painted Ladies houses, which includes the house from the 1990s sitcom Full… Tags: Painted Ladies, San Francisco Chronicle, taxes | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Wheel of Fortune analysis for the win

A Wheel of Fortune contestant employed strategies outlined in a NYT Upshot analysis… Tags: Scott Menke, Upshot, Wheel of Fortune | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Simple tool for proportional area charts

There might be times when you want to visualize data with area, but… Tags: area, Krisztina Szűcs | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, May 2024 Roundup

Here's the good stuff for the month. Tags: roundup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

On the PolicyViz Podcast

I had a chat with Jon Schwabish on The PolicyViz Podcast. We talked… Tags: Jon Schwabish, podcast, PolicyViz | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Analysis of text messages with an ex-boyfriend

Teresa Ibarra used Facebook Messenger to text with her now ex-boyfriend almost a… Tags: relationships, Teresa Ibarra, texting | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Visualize This: Publication Day, Fourteen Years Later

The second edition of Visualize This is published. The book made its way… Tags: learning, publishing, writing | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Flight turbulence on the Singapore Airlines flight, visually explained

Last week, a Singapore Airlines flight experienced turbulence that led to one person… Tags: flights, Reuters, Singapore Airlines, turbulence | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

When feelings of nostalgia peak

YouGov surveyed 2,000 adults asking them when was the best and worst decades… Tags: great, nostalgia, Washington Post, YouGov | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

WildChat, a dataset of ChatGPT interactions

In case you need a large dataset to train your chatbot — and… Tags: ChatGPT, WildChat | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Dashboard for L.A. Dodgers baseball

To keep track of performance, Matt Stiles made the Dodgers Data Bot, which… Tags: baseball, dashboard, Dodgers, Matt Stiles | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

✚ Writing a Book About Visualization

Reading the words of my younger self and revisiting that guy's process was... educational. Tags: book, writing | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Energy surges due to solar storm

The recent solar storms brought pretty lights to the night sky in some… Tags: Bloomberg, energy, solar, storm | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Change in housing prices where you live

I don’t know about you, but where I live, the housing prices keep… Tags: cost, housing, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Visualize This (2nd ed.): A real book that’s almost here

Visualize This is a real book now! The official publication date is May… Tags: published | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Mapping Hacker News

Wilson Lin used an abstract map to visualize 40 million posts and comments… Tags: Hacker News, Wilson Lin | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Visualization of flying into a black hole

Assuming you were still alive flying into a black hole, NASA’s Goddard Space… Tags: black hole, NASA, space | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Visualize This (2nd ed.): Finding the Best Visualization Tools

There are a lot of tools to visualize data. Some are visualization-specific. Some are tools that let you make charts but are focused on other data things. New apps come out with new features that promise new things. This can make it tricky to find the best visualization tool. Tag … | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago