Men leaving the workforce

The percentage of U.S. men in the workforce has been declining for decades,…Tags: men, Washington Post, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Effects of El Niño, a map

Raymond Zhong and Harry Stevens, for the New York Times, go with a…Tags: climate change, El Niño, New York Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Getting oil to the gas tank from the Strait of Hormuz

For the New York Times, Agnes Chang and Pablo Robles illustrate the journey…Tags: illustration, New York Times, oil, Strait of Hormuz | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Occupations with the highest divorce rates

Some jobs tend towards higher divorce rates and some lower.Tags: divorce, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

State healthcare sites sending data to tech companies

For Bloomberg, Tanaz Meghjani, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Surya Mattu report sharing of private…Tags: Bloomberg, government, privacy | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Restraint in the visualization process

This week is about constraints.Tags: constraints | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Visualizing history within a grid

For the Public Domain Review, Hunter Dukes and Adam Green visit Antoni Jażwiński’s…Tags: grid, Public Domain Review | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Increasing costs in the beef supply chain

Beef prices keep going up a noticeable amount in grocery stores. For Bloomberg,…Tags: beef, Bloomberg, cost, inflation, supply | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Cartographers review movie maps

John Nelson and Peter Atwood review maps that appeared in movies, such as…Tags: cartography, fiction, movies | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Estimating how much text on the internet is generated

Researchers analyzed newly published websites from 2022 through mid-2025 to estimate what percentage…Tags: generative, Internet Archive, text | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Past job transformations, because of technology

It seems every day the chances that AI transforms work trends towards certain.…Tags: Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch, technology, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

EVs getting cheaper to go farther

The cost of an electrical vehicle used to increase quickly as you shopped…Tags: cost, electric vehicle, Francesca Paris, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Visualization tools and resources, April 2026 roundup

Every month I collect tools, datasets, and resources to help you make more useful data things. Here is what happened in April.Tags: roundup | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Masterclass in misleading charts

Hank Green dissects a video that argues against climate change. The video in…Tags: climate change, Hank Green, misleading | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Writing style as your digital fingerprint

Apparently, the words we use and how we structure our sentences in writing…Tags: chatbot, Megan McArdle, privacy, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Asia is a lot more excited about AI than the U.S. is

For Rest of World, Rina Chandran reports on the big difference in excitement:…Tags: country, excitement, Rest of World | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Ethics in the way of scale

For NYT Opinion, Paul Ford on the challenges for AI companies to build…Tags: ethics, New York Times, Paul Ford | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Build a British voter

The Economist shows probabilities that a person votes for each party, given a…Tags: Economist, election, voting | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Penguin relationship diagrams at the aquarium

The Kyoto Aquarium in Kyoto and the Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo each have…Tags: Kyoto Acquarium, penguin, relationships | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Estimating damage to civilian areas in Iran

Even if only military areas are targeted, civilian and commercial structures are also…Tags: Bloomberg, damage, Iran, satellite imagery, war | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Lower fertility, probably delayed

Lower fertility is typically pitched as a bad thing, but it can be…Tags: Claire Cain Miller, fertility, Upshot | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

✚ Worthless overlay of information

This week we highlight an overlay that obscures the useful bits and helps no one.Tags: broadcast, overlay, sports | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Mechanics of GPS

Shri Khalpada of PerThirtySix explains how GPS works using a set of small…Tags: GPS, PerThirtySix, satellites, Shri Khalpada | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

OpenAI is coming for your presentation poster with Images 2.0 model

OpenAI announced their generative model ChatGPT Images 2.0. One of the new features…Tags: ChatGPT, OpenAI, poster | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Causes of death around the world for different groups

Mortality varies widely by geography and demographic group. It has also changed over…Tags: mortality, Our World in Data | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Scale of proposed arch in D.C.

The administration wants to build a 250-foot tall arch in Washington. That’s a…Tags: arch, buildings, New York Times, scale | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Revealing who you are to chatbots

Using inference with what you ask, how you write, and your phrasing, a…Tags: chatbot, privacy, Straits Times | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 1 month ago

Battle for Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz might be “completely open” for ships to pass through,…Tags: Iran, New York Times, ships, Strait of Hormuz | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Continuing the cherry blossom data alive

Japanese officials and researchers have been carefully documenting when cherry blossoms bloom in…Tags: cherry blossom, climate, Yasuyuki Aono | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong

Millions of people protested in Hong Kong against China’s Communist Party back in…Tags: arrests, China, democracy, Hong Kong, Reuters | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Job turnover by occupation

Some occupations have more turnover than others. See how it varies for your occupation and others.Tags: tenure, work | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Data portraits of population

To make India’s census documents more accessible to the public in the 1970s,…Tags: census, Diagram Chasing, illustration, India, population | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

✚ Background signals

This week we put more information in the background to improve the signal in the foreground.Tags: background, context | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

History of mapping the Moon

For most of history, maps of the Moon were based only on the…Tags: cartography, Inverting Vision, moon | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Photographer catalogs every owned object

Over four years, Barbara Iweins cataloged every object she owns — all 12,795…Tags: Barbara Iweins, photograph | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

William S. Cleveland, RIP

William S. Cleveland, one of the most respected statistical visualization researchers of all-time,…Tags: obituary, William Cleveland | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Visual guide to Iran’s coastline and islands at the Strait of Hormuz

For Al Jazeera, Mohamed A. Hussein and Mohammed Haddad provide a map of…Tags: Al Jazeera, Iran, Strait of Hormuz | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Days that Trump spends at his own properties

Trump spends a lot of time at his own hotels and golf clubs.…Tags: golf, Philip Bump, properties | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

National park visitation and outdoor recreation data

The National Park Service and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes data…Tags: Kyle Frost, outdoors, park | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Visual guide for Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace was published 30 years ago. To commemorate,…Tags: Christian Swinehart, Infinite Jest, literature | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

✚ Off the axes

This week we look for ways to diverge towards the unexpected.Tags: chess, difference, thought | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Where leaves are emerging and flowers are blooming

It’s that time of year again when we hear about how the plants…Tags: growth, spring, Washington Post | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Writer uses AI in New York Times book review and accidentally plagiarizes other review

Alex Preston used AI in a book review for the New York Times…Tags: Guardian, New York Times, plagiarism | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Artemis II tracker, to know if the space toilet is working

NASA makes a lot of live data available about the Artemis II mission.…Tags: Artemis II, Chad Ohman, NASA, space, tracker | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Pressure, a high-stakes movie about weather forecasting and uncertainty

It appears there is an upcoming film, Pressure, whose meteorologist main character deals…Tags: forecasting, movie, uncertainty | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Gas prices map, by county

Gas prices are high across the U.S., more so in some places than…Tags: gas, New York Times, prices | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

Tracking gas prices worldwide

GlobalPetrolPrices tracks prices around the world for 150 countries, in case you’re wondering…Tags: gas, prices | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago

First images from Artemis II astronauts

The first downlinked images were published by NASA. The best view of Earth’s…Tags: Artemis II, Earth, NASA, space | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 2 months ago