There’s a total eclipse (a real one, not of the heart) happening on April 8, 2024. The next one isn’t until 2045, so if you don’t want to wait two decades, now’s your chance… | Continue reading
For CNN, Amy O’Kruk and Kenneth Uzquiano asked what would happen if we didn’t have leap years. Without the extra day every four years, we’d eventually have seasons time-shifted by… | Continue reading
Harry Jefferies shared his grandfather’s 30-year project: My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992. He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years.… | Continue reading
Every month I collect tools and resources that help you make better charts. Here's the good stuff for February.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
Ben Ashforth set out to visit a street named after a day of the year for each date. He used OpenStreetMap to find the streets and then algorithmically routed a trip. Then he followed through and we… | Continue reading
There are thousands of McDonald's locations, but there are still more golf courses in the United States. This seems surprising, but some maps make it clear.Tags: golf, McDonald's | Continue reading
During the 2024 NBA All-Star weekend, the basketball court was essentially a giant LED screen on the second day. The company behind the panels talked about the technical side for a WTHR news segmen… | Continue reading
Based on data from the USDA Census of Agriculture, this map by John Johnson shows the predominant domesticated animal in each county in the United States. It nonchalantly includes humans. | Continue reading
How much you sleep each night matters, but more importantly, it's about the quality and if you feel rested when you wake up.Tags: age, rest, sleep, well-being | Continue reading
To decide if values are high or low, sometimes you have to divide the numbers for a relative comparison instead of an absolute one.Tags: comparison, denominator | Continue reading
This American Life tells the tales as old as time: When it comes to finding love, there seems to be two schools of thought on the best way to go about it. One says, wait for that lightning-strike m… | Continue reading
K.K. Rebecca Lai ran her first marathon. She recounts her training and the day of the event with a series of maps and charts. It reads like a data-driven journal entry, which I am always up for. | Continue reading
Caitlin Clark, a basketball guard for the University of Iowa, has been steadily adding to her point total over the past four years. Clark broke the NCAA record this past week. But as we all know, i… | Continue reading
Asian workers are more than three times more likely to be physicians. What other jobs jump out? What's it like for other races and ethnicity?Tags: race, work | Continue reading
People like to judge charts by pointing out all the things that are wrong, which is limiting in practice.Tags: criticism | Continue reading
From CRAN: Blind users do not have access to the graphical output from R without printing the content of graphics windows to an embosser of some kind. This is not as immediate as is required for ef… | Continue reading
You’ve probably heard various renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner, and sometimes singers put a little extra something in the anthem. A bit of flourish. Some attitude. For The Pudding, Jan … | Continue reading
For NYT Opinion, Nate Silver compares consumer confidence between two surveys. The University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment focuses more on personal spending, whereas the Conferen… | Continue reading
How does the modern Kansas City Chiefs compare to teams who won previous Super Bowls over the past 58 years?Tags: football, Super Bowl | Continue reading
Your body goes through a special process to digest spicy food. The sting, the sweating, the sting afterwards. For the Washington Post, Bonnie Berkowitz, Aaron Steckelberg, and Szu Yu Chen illustrat… | Continue reading
This chart by Eric Wallerstein for the Wall Street Journal shows expectations against reality. They often don’t match up. See also: how rate projections change over time. | Continue reading
This week's topic comes through a FD reader who asks how I manage and organize data from analysis through visualization.Tags: organization | Continue reading
Education paths start to diverge towards the end of high school and after.Tags: age, education | Continue reading
There are competitions where people complete jigsaw puzzles as quickly as they can, and some teams take it very seriously. Because of course. For the Washington Post, Chris Alcantara shows the time… | Continue reading
Sébastien Matos used a straightforward view to show the evolution of the scrollbar, dating back to the Xerox 8010 Information System from 1981. | Continue reading
For NPR, Juliana Kim reports: Deep Sea Vision, an ocean exploration company based in South Carolina, announced Saturday that it captured compelling sonar images of what could be Earhart’s air… | Continue reading
For WP’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam notes the decline of the school bus and the rise of the private vehicle to bring kids to school. The estimates are based on responses to the Nation… | Continue reading
Start with water, fire, wind, and earth and see what you can craft by combining elements. Neal Agarwal made a game, Infinite Craft, that uses Llama 2, a large language model, to build just about an… | Continue reading
There was a time when big infographics ruled, and then their popularity faded as quickly as it came. It wasn't because of their size though, which might have been the only thing right about them.Tags: analysis, depth, size | Continue reading
I wrote a book! It’s the second edition of Visualize This. It focuses on the how of visualization with practical examples that you can apply to your own data. You’ll learn how to use a … | Continue reading
Alastair Humphreys, using a 20 by 20 kilometer map of where he lives, explored one square kilometer at a time as if he were traveling farther. For the Guardian: Travelling around my unremarkable ma… | Continue reading
Some occupations are more race-dominant than others. This is the percentage of employed persons 16 years and older who are a given race or ethnicity for each.Tags: race, work | Continue reading
Usually when you see a railway map, it’s from a local perspective, because it’s meant to show how you get from point A to point B. As a learning experiment, Zhaoxu Sui mapped major rail… | Continue reading
A map, by Pantry & Larder, shows the cost of a Big Mac at each McDonald’s in the United States, as of early 2023. As you might expect, the prices are higher on the east and west coasts. … | Continue reading
Using data from the crowdsourced database eBird, Harry Stevens mapped the shifts in bird populations for the Washington Post. Increased building and climate change have led to population declines f… | Continue reading
Here's the good stuff for January.Tags: roundup | Continue reading
For Numberphile, Simon Anthony explains the Phistomephel Ring. The shape always contains the same numbers as the corners do. Math magic! | Continue reading
Meant to be comprehensive more than a curated collection, the Journalist’s Toolbox AI provides many links to tools that might help you data more efficiently. Or at least use more AI-ish thing… | Continue reading
You can always count on the site for updates on visualization, data, and statistics. There’s also RSS and email. But someone told me you should meet the people where they are, so here are the… | Continue reading
In an effort to find a suspect in a 1990 murder, there was a police request in 2017 to use a 3-D rendering of a face based on DNA. For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra reports: The detective’s request to run … | Continue reading
Rivers drain into oceans. Grasshopper Geography color-coded the rivers in the world by the ocean they drain into and made a series of maps. But what is an ocean drainage basin map, I hear most of y… | Continue reading
If you’re into basketball data, Sravan Pannala is keeping a running list of data sources, apps, and visualization on the topic. I can always use more basketball data, so I’ll bookmark t… | Continue reading
Financial Times highlights how researchers are using AI to try to learn what animal sounds mean and to communicate back. Turn on the sound for maximum effect. | Continue reading
Welcome to The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau. Statistical charts are often abstract representations of data whit… | Continue reading
You can find Asian restaurants in most places in the United States, but the type of Asian food choices varies. For Pew Research, Sona Shah and Regina Widjaya mapped the distributions of eight major… | Continue reading
Earth got its hottest year on record in 2023. Based on data from Berkeley Earth, John Muyskens and Niko Kommenda, for The Washington Post, focused on the geographic areas that experienced the bigge… | Continue reading
A warming climate has meant less snow in the northern hemisphere, which is a problem when agriculture depends on melting snow to grow crops. Bloomberg reports on the current snow drought situation. | Continue reading
If you’re traveling to a new city, it can be tricky to figure out where things are and what the places are like. However, if you had a tool that set the context of the new city in terms of th… | Continue reading