Nazi propaganda charts

RJ Andrews and Attila Bátorfy highlight information graphics from Signal, the Nazi propaganda… Tags: Attila Batorfy, Nazi, propaganda, RJ Andrews | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 day ago

Flower blooms to visualize climate change

Annelie Berner used blooming flowers as a visual metaphor to show climate change.… Tags: Annelie Berner, climate change, flower | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 days ago

John Snow probably didn’t use that Broad Street map to reach his conclusions about cholera

Many visualization folks recognize the cholera map as a vital tool that John… Tags: cholera, John Snow, Joshua Stevens | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 3 days ago

Reduced sampling for Consumer Price Index estimates

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a reduction in data collection to put… Tags: budget, Bureau of Labor Statistics, government | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 days ago

Magnus Carlsen chess match against the wisdom of crowds ends in a draw

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen played against 143,000 people in a single game. The… Tags: Associated Press, chess, crowds, Magnus Carlsen | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 days ago

Professor who studied honesty loses tenure over faked data

A couple years ago, Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data,… Tags: honesty, tenure | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 days ago

✚ Caring Data

Hi folks. It’s Nathan. Welcome to the Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members… Tags: care, thought | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 6 days ago

Progressive tax rates in Western Europe

There is always ample discussion about progressive tax rates in the United States.… Tags: Datawrapper, Europe, taxes | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 8 days ago

Unknowable energy footprint

For MIT Technology Review, James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart ran numbers and interviewed… Tags: data center, energy, MIT Technology Review | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 9 days ago

AI energy usage, rough estimates for the hardware

Hardware for AI uses a whole lot of energy while training on data… Tags: Alex de Vries-Gao, energy, Institute for Environmental Studies | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 9 days ago

Survey microdata for free

Downloading survey microdata from public resources can be tricky. Sometimes the documentation is… Tags: Anthony Damico, public, R, surveys | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 10 days ago

Last episode of Not So Standard Deviations podcast

Roger Peng and Hilary Parker started the statistics and data science podcast Not… Tags: Hilary Parker, podcast, Roger Peng | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 10 days ago

Data-driven story on the first vaccine

As we enter a time when people question the usefulness of vaccines, even… Tags: documentary, Neil Halloran, smallpox, vaccine, video | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 days ago

Pay more taxes and receive less

The Congressional Budget Office published a report estimating effects on household income if… Tags: bill, Congressional Budget Office, G. Elliott Morris, government, scale, taxes | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 days ago

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, May 2025 Roundup

The good stuff from May: tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from. Tags: roundup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 13 days ago

Schools with the most international students

As the administration tries to block international students from attending Harvard University, NYT’s… Tags: education, international, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 15 days ago

Education as an export

The administration is making it more difficult if not impossible for foreign students… Tags: deficit, education, trade, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 15 days ago

Marketplace for government agencies to buy all the personal data about Americans

For the Intercept, Sam Biddle reports on government plans for a one-stop shop… Tags: Intercept, privacy | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

Undisclosed surveillance with facial recognition in New Orleans

For The Washington Post, Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer report on a system… Tags: facial recognition, privacy, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

Fading lights in Ukraine mapped

Ukraine has suffered ongoing damage to their power infrastructure since the invasion began.… Tags: Bloomberg, electricity, lights, Ukraine | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 16 days ago

Lower science funding so far in 2025

With a circular voronoi diagram, NYT’s the Upshot shows a much slower rate… Tags: funding, science, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 days ago

Privacy from data brokers canceled

Last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new rule that would… Tags: CFPB, data brokers, ethics, privacy, Wired | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 days ago

✚ Conflicting points of view over the same data

This week we look at how the same data can easily lead to different conclusions that can all be correct, even when they conflict. Tags: point of view | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 20 days ago

MVP honors dominated by international NBA players

Kirk Goldsberry plotted MVP winners in the NBA, by nationality. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander from… Tags: basketball, Kirk Goldsberry, MVP, NBA | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 21 days ago

Map of an upside down world

While we’re on maps oriented in unfamiliar ways, Robert Simmon made an upside… Tags: geography, Robert Simmon | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 21 days ago

Paying attention to when we kept on living

We usually think about mortality in terms of events that happened, because it’s… Tags: Hank Green, mortality | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 22 days ago

Sinking land in U.S. cities

Land is sinking, or subsiding, at a slow rate of millimeters per year.… Tags: land, sinking, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 22 days ago

Farmers sued over deleted USDA data — and it worked

In February, farmers sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture for removing data related… Tags: climate, government, New York Times, USDA | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 23 days ago

Point of view of a professional card counter

Card counting is a method to keep track of the cards left in… Tags: blackjack, cards, counting, Quattro, Slate | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 24 days ago

Center the map on the country you want

Speaking of maps centered on specific countries, Engaging Data made an interactive map… Tags: country, Engaging Data, projections | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 27 days ago

Married by When

Because everyone who is 30 years and older loves getting asked when they're going to settle down and get married. Tags: age, demographics, marriage | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 27 days ago

✚ Step Chart, Enhanced

This week we look at the step chart and how to highlight specific patterns in the steps. Tags: enhance | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 27 days ago

World map with south on top and Brazil in center

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Brazil’s agency for statistics and… Tags: Brazil, projections | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 28 days ago

Likelihood of dying on your birthday

The birthday effect is a statistical anomaly that shows higher likelihood of death… Tags: birthday, mortality, Pudding, Russell Samora | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 28 days ago

Millions could be affected by Social Security check delays

There are plans to reduce staffing at the Social Security Administration by 7,000… Tags: layoffs, Social Security, Urban Institute | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 29 days ago

NOAA database for extreme weather disasters cancelled

The NOAA database, dubbed Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters, tracked events that exceeded… Tags: climate, government, NOAA, takedown | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Data graphics off the screen

RJ Andrews held an exhibition of data graphics at 41 Cooper in New… Tags: physical, RJ Andrews | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Tariff timeline with China, so far

The U.S. and China put a semi-hold on tariffs for the next 90… Tags: China, New York Times, tariff | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Air quality monitoring suspended at national parks

It’s a temporary suspension, for now. For the Washington Post, Maxine Joselow reports:… Tags: air quality, government, monitor, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

National weather forecasting in jeopardy

For CNN, Andrew Freedman reports: Of the hundreds of vacancies, the 30 open… Tags: CNN, hurricane, NOAA | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Limited surveying of the deep sea, a tiny 0.001%

Researchers from the Ocean Discovery League estimated how little we know about the… Tags: deep sea, ocean, Ocean Discovery League | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Fancy hammer

Seth Godin on the importance of judgment: AI is a tool, and judgment,… Tags: Seth Godin, tool | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Time saved with AI creates more work elsewhere

Benj Edwards reporting for Ars Techinca: In “Large Language Models, Small Labor Market… Tags: Ars Technica, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Lawsuits against executive orders

For Bloomberg, Zoe Tillman and Christopher Cannon break down the lawsuits against the… Tags: Bloomberg, executive order, government, lawsuit | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ When the data is not what it seems

Look for outside reasons, or confounding factors, for why things show up in the data. Tags: confounding | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Met Gala dress silhouettes over the years

This is outside my wheelhouse, but it seems like Met Gala dresses grow… Tags: dress, fashion, Met Gala, Reuters | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

When AI chatbots affect real relationships

For Rolling Stone, Miles Klee reports on a growing trend where ChatGPT disrupts… Tags: ChatGPT, ethics, Rolling Stone | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Value of Chinese goods vs. tariffs

Bloomberg, leaning in to a shipping container metaphor, shows the value of goods… Tags: Bloomberg, China, shipping, tariff | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago