Outdated data used in U.S. strike on elementary school in Iran

School children were killed in the poorly informed attack. The New York Times…Tags: Iran, New York Times, school | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 10 hours ago

Choose the real music vs. generated

Shri Khalpada, as a technologist and musician, thinks through his mixed feelings for…Tags: generative, music, PerThirtySix, Shri Khalpada | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 17 hours ago

AI or human: writing passages

We are approaching a point (or we’re here already) where generated output is…Tags: New York Times, quiz, writing | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 hours ago

Pokemon tree of life

Pokemon is in its 30th year of existence. The Straits Times visualized the…Tags: Pokemon, Straits Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 day ago

Satellite images that are AI fakes

To everyone’s surprise, that people definitely did not see coming, fake satellite images…Tags: fake, Financial Times, satellite imagery | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 days ago

Bird search patterns

By Nadieh Bremer with Emily Barone, this is a charming piece on the…Tags: birds, Emily Barone, Google Trends, Nadieh Bremer, search | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 days ago

Maps and charts for what is happening in Iran

Reuters Graphics has a feed of maps and charts for updates on Iran.…Tags: Iran, Reuters | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 days ago

Mapping what makes us happy

In 2017, researchers asked study participants via MTurk to list three happy moments…Tags: Alvin Chang, happiness, Pudding | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 5 days ago

Database to explore conflicts of interest through financial disclosures

ProPublica has been collecting thousands of disclosure documents, and they made a searchable…Tags: conflict, finance, politics, ProPublica | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 days ago

Unemployment reasons, by age and education

Why Americans are unemployed varies across groups. Tags: unemployment, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 days ago

✚ Animating data for fun and interest

This week is about animating data to better show insights and to keep randos engaged on the internets.Tags: animation | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 days ago

Oil supply chain slowdown

The New York Times mapped the traffic difference at the Strait of Hormuz,…Tags: New York Times, ships, traffic, war | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

Marine traffic through the Strait of Hormus

Normally there is a steady flow of ships through the strait, but when…Tags: ships, war, Zeit | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

Drones and modern warfare in Ukraine

With hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian drone flights every month, countries have had…Tags: drone, Financial Times, Ukraine, war | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 7 days ago

Release your lantern

In celebration of the lunar new year, many people release a lantern into…Tags: lantern, Lunar New Year, Taiwan Data Stories | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 8 days ago

Unusual luck for streamers in the crypto casino Stake

For Businessweek, Cecilia D’Anastasio, Olivia Solon, and Leon Yin analyzed the unusual luck…Tags: Bloomberg, cryptocurrency, gambling, luck, Stake | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 8 days ago

Famous chess matches visualized as 3-D wireframes

Imagine points for each piece on a chessboard. They move to x-y positions…Tags: chess, Santiago Ortiz | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 9 days ago

Visual catalog of Isotype examples

Isotype, or International System of Typographic Picture Education, is a picture language used…Tags: Isotype, RJ Andrews | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 12 days ago

Weather forecast app, with uncertainty as a core feature

The folks who made Dark Sky, my once go-to weather app that was…Tags: forecast, uncertainty, weather | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 days ago

✚ Visualization tools and resources, February 2026 roundup

Here is what happened in February.Tags: roundup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 days ago

Illustrated engineering in everyday objects

Mechanical Pencil is a project by Bryan Macomber that illustrates the mechanical bits…Tags: Bryan Macomber, engineering, illustration, mechanical | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 days ago

Mysteries of women’s clothing sizes

The challenges continue for women who want clothes that fit properly. For the…Tags: clothes, Pudding, size, women | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 14 days ago

Regional biases and stereotypes in ChatGPT models

LLMs are based on data and text collected from the internets, so as…Tags: bias, ChatGPT, geography, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 15 days ago

Dialed, a color memory game

People are usually not great at remembering exact colors. Dialed is a fun…Tags: color, game | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 15 days ago

Map of countries aligning with China

Using an analysis from Focaldata, the Guardian used the angled arrow approach to…Tags: China, Guardian, United Nations | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

Geopolitical axis between the United States and China

Focaldata calculated United Nations voting patterns by country, relative to the United States…Tags: China, Focaldata, politics, United Nations, United States, world | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

Invalidated tariffs

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the administration’s “emergency” tariffs to be illegal. This…Tags: law, New York Times, Supreme Court, tariff | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 19 days ago

Maps show not enough electricity in Cuba

For Bloomberg, Krishna Karra and Stephen Wicary map blackouts in Cuba due to…Tags: Bloomberg, Cuba, electricity, light, satellite imagery | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 19 days ago

Immigrants challenging their detention in historic number of cases

ProPublica and the Texas Tribune report on the spike of claims over the…Tags: deportation, habeas petition, ProPublica, Texas Tribune, tracker | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 19 days ago

Coding on the train

Paul Ford, for NYT Opinion, on his outlook for making software by vibe…Tags: code, New York Times, Paul Ford, technology, vibe-code | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 days ago

Most common fields of study ranked by bachelor’s degrees conferred, since 1970

Over the decades, we can see the shifts (and non-shifts) in professional priorities and interests by looking at what college students are studying.Tags: degrees, education | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 days ago

✚ Rank and order

This week is about how we rank from best to worst and use visualization to highlight order.Tags: rank, sorting | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 days ago

Rise of Bad Bunny

For Reuters, Ally J. Levine and Tiana McGee illustrate and chart the rise:…Tags: Bad Bunny, music, Reuters | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 21 days ago

Jeffrey Epstein’s network via 1.4m emails

With the most recent Epstein release, the Economist collaborated with the folks who…Tags: Economist, email, Jeffrey Epstein, Large Language Model | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 22 days ago

Meta planning facial recognition with glasses

Meta’s smart glasses have an outward facing camera pointed at what you’re looking…Tags: facial recognition, glasses, Meta, privacy | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 26 days ago

Ring cancels partnership with law enforcement supplier Flock

The Amazon-owned security system Ring was planning to partner with Flock Safety, who…Tags: Flock, privacy, Ring, surveillance | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 26 days ago

Dinosaurs, not dinosaurs

xkcd drops the knowledge with a proper classification for the stapler. The pairwise…Tags: dinosaurs, humor, xkcd | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 26 days ago

Ring cameras as large-scale surveillance system

During the Super Bowl, Ring ran a commercial that shows how everyone’s doorbell…Tags: 404 Media, privacy, Ring, surveillance | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 27 days ago

✚ Tracing historical data for visual echoes

This week is about visual echos. Tags: compositing, traces | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 27 days ago

Searchable database of unregulated political contributions

ProPublica updated their explorer for money flowing into 527s. Every year, hundreds of…Tags: contributions, elections, politics, ProPublica | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 27 days ago

Composite ski race to show 0.04-second win

In the women’s downhill, Breezy Johnson won gold with a time of 1…Tags: Breezy Johnson, compositing, New York Times, Olympics, skiing | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 28 days ago

10k fewer STEM PhDs employed by the federal government

Science analyzed employment data from the Office of Personnel Management to calculate the…Tags: government, layoffs, PhD, Science Journal | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 28 days ago

Network map of Bluesky users

Theo Sanderson visualized the network of 3.4 million Bluesky users, placed by follow…Tags: Bluesky, Theo Sanderson | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 28 days ago

Mechanics of the Quad God’s quadruple axel

Olympic figure skater Ilia Malinin earned the nickname “Quad God” for all his…Tags: ice skating, Ilia Malinin, New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 29 days ago

Less focused work with AI

Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye are studying how work loads are shifting…Tags: focus, Harvard Business Review, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 29 days ago

Access to Winter Olympic sports near you

While it’s easy to go out for a run in most places, finding…Tags: Olympics, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

US population might decline for the first time

For Bloomberg, Shawn Donnan runs the numbers and discusses how this might affect…Tags: Bloomberg, migration, population | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Why the best skiers don’t always win in the Olympics

Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety is on the New York Times to explain…Tags: New York Times, Olympics, skiing, uncertainty | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago