Speaking of Conservatives losing, Andre Tartar and Demetrios Pogkas for Bloomberg show the… Tags: Bloomberg, election | Continue reading
For the New York Times, Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby show how the… Tags: elections, loss, New York Times | Continue reading
Andrei Kashcha visualized major software packages as galaxies that you can fly through.… Tags: Andrei Kashcha, code, galaxies | Continue reading
Trevor Rainbolt is really good at geolocating a place given a single frame… Tags: Google Streetview, New York Times, Trevor Rainbolt | Continue reading
Last week marked 17 years running this small corner of the internet on… Tags: birthday | Continue reading
In a different take on showing the scale of very tiny things, Epic… Tags: Epic Spaceman, scale, small | Continue reading
The ages of American presidential candidates are old when compared to the ages… Tags: age, government, Washington Post | Continue reading
It’s impossible to know the exact number of Covid deaths worldwide, because consistent… Tags: coronavirus, counting, estimation, Howtown | Continue reading
Here is the good stuff for the month. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Christopher Wolfram explains his “unnecessarily detailed analysis” of the spelling game from the… Tags: Christopher Wolfram, game, Spelling Bee | Continue reading
After years of enthusiastic discussions, editors eventually and begrudgingly came to a conclusion. Tags: spelling, Wikipedia, yogurt | Continue reading
A global map of climate change can make a few degrees of rising… Tags: climate, Derek Taylor, global warming, Pudding | Continue reading
For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura… Tags: names, trends, Washington Post | Continue reading
State Farm won’t be renewing about 30,000 policies because of high wildfire and… Tags: insurance, San Francisco Chronicle, State Farm | Continue reading
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
For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman provide evidence that Perplexity, an AI-based… Tags: AI, ethics, ownership, Perplexity, Wired | Continue reading
Neven Mrgan describes what it was like to get an AI-generated email from… Tags: AI, email, Neven Mrgan | Continue reading
It’s abnormally hot in a large portion of the United States, and it’s… Tags: heat, New York Times, warning | Continue reading
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
Vivek Rao likes to play Sudoku, enough that he collected data on his… Tags: game, Sudoku, Vivek Rao | Continue reading
Thinking about life and randomness, Cameron Sun modified the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe.… Tags: Cameron Sun, game, probability | Continue reading
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
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
Stamen, whose design breakdowns I always appreciate, discusses why they took a different… Tags: Stamen, uncertainty, wind | Continue reading
Ren Yuan visualized the GitHub commit history for the PyTorch library. The virtual… Tags: 3-d, GitHub, Ren Yuan, sonification | Continue reading
During the Dallas Stars away games during this year’s NHL playoffs, fans could… Tags: hockey, motion tracking, physical, SMT, sports | Continue reading
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
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
For NYT, Sam Anderson, with illustrations by Gaia Alari, tells the story of… Tags: dogs, New York Times, pets, storytelling | Continue reading
Currently is a prototype ambient display that shows where your energy comes from.… Tags: energy, light, Universal Everything | Continue reading
The Painted Ladies houses, which includes the house from the 1990s sitcom Full… Tags: Painted Ladies, San Francisco Chronicle, taxes | Continue reading
A Wheel of Fortune contestant employed strategies outlined in a NYT Upshot analysis… Tags: Scott Menke, Upshot, Wheel of Fortune | Continue reading
There might be times when you want to visualize data with area, but… Tags: area, Krisztina Szűcs | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for the month. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
I had a chat with Jon Schwabish on The PolicyViz Podcast. We talked… Tags: Jon Schwabish, podcast, PolicyViz | Continue reading
Teresa Ibarra used Facebook Messenger to text with her now ex-boyfriend almost a… Tags: relationships, Teresa Ibarra, texting | Continue reading
The second edition of Visualize This is published. The book made its way… Tags: learning, publishing, writing | Continue reading
Last week, a Singapore Airlines flight experienced turbulence that led to one person… Tags: flights, Reuters, Singapore Airlines, turbulence | Continue reading
YouGov surveyed 2,000 adults asking them when was the best and worst decades… Tags: great, nostalgia, Washington Post, YouGov | Continue reading
In case you need a large dataset to train your chatbot — and… Tags: ChatGPT, WildChat | Continue reading
To keep track of performance, Matt Stiles made the Dodgers Data Bot, which… Tags: baseball, dashboard, Dodgers, Matt Stiles | Continue reading
Reading the words of my younger self and revisiting that guy's process was... educational. Tags: book, writing | Continue reading
The recent solar storms brought pretty lights to the night sky in some… Tags: Bloomberg, energy, solar, storm | Continue reading
I don’t know about you, but where I live, the housing prices keep… Tags: cost, housing, Washington Post | Continue reading
Visualize This is a real book now! The official publication date is May… Tags: published | Continue reading
Wilson Lin used an abstract map to visualize 40 million posts and comments… Tags: Hacker News, Wilson Lin | Continue reading
Assuming you were still alive flying into a black hole, NASA’s Goddard Space… Tags: black hole, NASA, space | Continue reading
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