Speaking of when data flips, last night in game four of the 2026…Tags: basketball, Inpredictable, probability, wins | Continue reading
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
The New York Times counted Elon Musk’s promises on X/Twitter and Tesla earnings…Tags: Elon Musk, goals, New York Times | Continue reading
It’s going to be hot in North America as the World Cup 2026…Tags: Bloomberg, soccer, temperature, World Cup | Continue reading
Companies use seismic airguns in the Gulf of Mexico to find oil and…Tags: New York Times, ocean, sound, whale | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Laura Millan, Kyle Kim, and Armand Emamdjomeh mapped the projected extent…Tags: Bloomberg, glaciers, global warming, melting | Continue reading
Traffic has been rising extra quickly these past couple of years. Unfortunately (or…Tags: bot, Cloudflare, Internet, scraping | Continue reading
LLM speed is commonly expressed as tokens per second, which is kind of…Tags: Large Language Model, speed, token | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Demetrios Pogkas, Jennah Haque, and Kiel Porter show the projected scale…Tags: Bloomberg, investments, IPO, SpaceX | Continue reading
This week, we look past the chart and ponder its true purpose.Tags: analysis, template | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman make a case for a…Tags: billionaires, New York Times, taxes, wealth | Continue reading
For NBC News, Jane Weaver, Jiachuan Wu, and Javier Zarracina report on the…Tags: ebola, NBC News, outbreak | Continue reading
Higher unemployment among young workers has been commonly attributed to generative AI. In…Tags: remote, unemployment, work, young | Continue reading
For the Pudding, Minji Kim and Eunice Lee wrote about the growth of…Tags: Eunice Lee, K-pop, Minji Kim, Pudding | Continue reading
Japan has been aging and having fewer children, which led to a decline…Tags: Japan, New York Times, population | Continue reading
Erin Davis calculated the average age of people with a given name to…Tags: age, Erin Davis, names | Continue reading
The U.S. Census Bureau released a names dataset for first names and surnames.…Tags: Census Bureau, names | Continue reading
U.S. voters have historically stuck with two political parties, but that’s changing in…Tags: multiparty, USAFacts, voting | Continue reading
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
For the Washington Post, Federica Cocco and Taylor Telford report on the increasing…Tags: unemployment, Washington Post, work | Continue reading
Every month I collect tools, data, and resources to make better charts. Here's what happened in May.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill, Jonathan O’Connell, and Luke Connors built…Tags: advertising, gambling, Washington Post | Continue reading
Trump visited China, and then Putin visited a week later. Reuters compared the…Tags: China, difference, Reuters | Continue reading
Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which translates to Magnificent…Tags: encyclical, humanity, Pope Leo XIV | Continue reading
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
An aging population means more seniors 65 years and older are taking care…Tags: age, schedule, senior, Straits Times | Continue reading
U.S. inflation is high, and the prices of almost everything are rising fast…Tags: cherrypicking, dishonest, inflation | Continue reading
As a ratio of home prices to household income, the cost of buying…Tags: cost, house, income, New York Times | Continue reading
This week, we talk limitations of the defaultiest of defaultiest chart types.Tags: options, precision, variation | Continue reading
Speaking of careless AI usage, the open-access archive for research papers, ArXiv, is…Tags: ArXiv, ban, research, slop | Continue reading
Disney shutdown FiveThirtyEight last year, but the archive stayed online. Well, they got…Tags: ABC News, Disney, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver, shutdown | Continue reading
Steven Rosenbaum wrote The Future of Truth, a book about AI and reality…Tags: New York Times, quote, Steven Rosenbaum, truth, writing | Continue reading
For the Pudding, Russell Samora, with design and illustration by Shelly Tan, analyzed…Tags: fiction, Pudding, Russell Samora, simile, words | Continue reading
World Bank, which releases an atlas every few years, published an Atlas of…Tags: atlas, world, World Bank | Continue reading
The Eurovision Song Contest is in its 70th year. Every year, each country…Tags: Eurovision, Giuseppe Sollazzo, lyrics, songs | Continue reading
Denice W. Ross and Christopher Steven Marcum, from the University of California at…Tags: field guide, government | Continue reading
For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill and Leslie Shapiro visualized users who…Tags: loss, money, Polymarket, prediction market, Washington Post | Continue reading
This week, we refresh an old chart with new data, interaction, and improved design.Tags: behind the scenes, social media | Continue reading
Science profiled Hany Farid, a researcher in digital forensics at the University of…Tags: generative, geometry, Science Magazine | Continue reading
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published cost estimates for April 2026. If…Tags: grocery, inflation, war, Washington Post | Continue reading
The percentage of U.S. men in the workforce has been declining for decades,…Tags: men, Washington Post, work | Continue reading
Raymond Zhong and Harry Stevens, for the New York Times, go with a…Tags: climate change, El Niño, New York Times | Continue reading
For the New York Times, Agnes Chang and Pablo Robles illustrate the journey…Tags: illustration, New York Times, oil, Strait of Hormuz | Continue reading
Some jobs tend towards higher divorce rates and some lower.Tags: divorce, work | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Tanaz Meghjani, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Surya Mattu report sharing of private…Tags: Bloomberg, government, privacy | Continue reading
This week is about constraints.Tags: constraints | Continue reading
For the Public Domain Review, Hunter Dukes and Adam Green visit Antoni Jażwiński’s…Tags: grid, Public Domain Review | Continue reading
Beef prices keep going up a noticeable amount in grocery stores. For Bloomberg,…Tags: beef, Bloomberg, cost, inflation, supply | Continue reading