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
John Nelson and Peter Atwood review maps that appeared in movies, such as…Tags: cartography, fiction, movies | Continue reading
Researchers analyzed newly published websites from 2022 through mid-2025 to estimate what percentage…Tags: generative, Internet Archive, text | Continue reading
It seems every day the chances that AI transforms work trends towards certain.…Tags: Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch, technology, work | Continue reading
The cost of an electrical vehicle used to increase quickly as you shopped…Tags: cost, electric vehicle, Francesca Paris, Upshot | Continue reading
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
Hank Green dissects a video that argues against climate change. The video in…Tags: climate change, Hank Green, misleading | Continue reading
Apparently, the words we use and how we structure our sentences in writing…Tags: chatbot, Megan McArdle, privacy, Washington Post | Continue reading
For Rest of World, Rina Chandran reports on the big difference in excitement:…Tags: country, excitement, Rest of World | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Paul Ford on the challenges for AI companies to build…Tags: ethics, New York Times, Paul Ford | Continue reading
The Economist shows probabilities that a person votes for each party, given a…Tags: Economist, election, voting | Continue reading
The Kyoto Aquarium in Kyoto and the Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo each have…Tags: Kyoto Acquarium, penguin, relationships | Continue reading
Even if only military areas are targeted, civilian and commercial structures are also…Tags: Bloomberg, damage, Iran, satellite imagery, war | Continue reading
Lower fertility is typically pitched as a bad thing, but it can be…Tags: Claire Cain Miller, fertility, Upshot | Continue reading
This week we highlight an overlay that obscures the useful bits and helps no one.Tags: broadcast, overlay, sports | Continue reading
Shri Khalpada of PerThirtySix explains how GPS works using a set of small…Tags: GPS, PerThirtySix, satellites, Shri Khalpada | Continue reading
OpenAI announced their generative model ChatGPT Images 2.0. One of the new features…Tags: ChatGPT, OpenAI, poster | Continue reading
Mortality varies widely by geography and demographic group. It has also changed over…Tags: mortality, Our World in Data | Continue reading
The administration wants to build a 250-foot tall arch in Washington. That’s a…Tags: arch, buildings, New York Times, scale | Continue reading
Using inference with what you ask, how you write, and your phrasing, a…Tags: chatbot, privacy, Straits Times | Continue reading
The Strait of Hormuz might be “completely open” for ships to pass through,…Tags: Iran, New York Times, ships, Strait of Hormuz | Continue reading
Japanese officials and researchers have been carefully documenting when cherry blossoms bloom in…Tags: cherry blossom, climate, Yasuyuki Aono | Continue reading
Millions of people protested in Hong Kong against China’s Communist Party back in…Tags: arrests, China, democracy, Hong Kong, Reuters | Continue reading
Some occupations have more turnover than others. See how it varies for your occupation and others.Tags: tenure, work | Continue reading
To make India’s census documents more accessible to the public in the 1970s,…Tags: census, Diagram Chasing, illustration, India, population | Continue reading
This week we put more information in the background to improve the signal in the foreground.Tags: background, context | Continue reading
For most of history, maps of the Moon were based only on the…Tags: cartography, Inverting Vision, moon | Continue reading
Over four years, Barbara Iweins cataloged every object she owns — all 12,795…Tags: Barbara Iweins, photograph | Continue reading
William S. Cleveland, one of the most respected statistical visualization researchers of all-time,…Tags: obituary, William Cleveland | Continue reading
For Al Jazeera, Mohamed A. Hussein and Mohammed Haddad provide a map of…Tags: Al Jazeera, Iran, Strait of Hormuz | Continue reading
Trump spends a lot of time at his own hotels and golf clubs.…Tags: golf, Philip Bump, properties | Continue reading
The National Park Service and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes data…Tags: Kyle Frost, outdoors, park | Continue reading
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace was published 30 years ago. To commemorate,…Tags: Christian Swinehart, Infinite Jest, literature | Continue reading
This week we look for ways to diverge towards the unexpected.Tags: chess, difference, thought | Continue reading
It’s that time of year again when we hear about how the plants…Tags: growth, spring, Washington Post | Continue reading
Alex Preston used AI in a book review for the New York Times…Tags: Guardian, New York Times, plagiarism | Continue reading
NASA makes a lot of live data available about the Artemis II mission.…Tags: Artemis II, Chad Ohman, NASA, space, tracker | Continue reading
It appears there is an upcoming film, Pressure, whose meteorologist main character deals…Tags: forecasting, movie, uncertainty | Continue reading
Gas prices are high across the U.S., more so in some places than…Tags: gas, New York Times, prices | Continue reading
GlobalPetrolPrices tracks prices around the world for 150 countries, in case you’re wondering…Tags: gas, prices | Continue reading
The first downlinked images were published by NASA. The best view of Earth’s…Tags: Artemis II, Earth, NASA, space | Continue reading