You mightve heard a little something about AI these past few months. If Tags: AI , ethics , Hack Club , Nicky Case

Its been over 200 years since the cicadas of Brood XIII and Brood Tags: Cicada , New York Times

The cicadas are coming. This year is unique, because there are two broods Tags: Cicada , CNN

Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, set out to plant and conserve 1 Tags: Bloomberg , Marc Benioff , scale , trees

The TikTok account Globetrots combines Google Earth and text-to-speech to show top-ten lists Tags: AI , generative , listicle , storytelling , TikTok

In our younger years, we have school and more important things to do, but then we get older and there are bills to pay. Tags: time use , work

Knowing what's next can help you work through a tedious step, because you know it'll be worth it. Tags: steps

A deeply insightful map from xkcd. See also: 19 maps that will blow Tags: humor , xkcd

Based on estimates from the Crowd Counting Consortium, the Washington Post shows the Tags: college , protest , Washington Post

Reddit user ChangsManagement mapped where NHL hockey players were born, based on data Tags: birth , NHL

Daniel Shiffman, who you might know from his enthusiastic YouTube channel The Coding Tags: Daniel Shiffman

The Pudding ran an experiment that asked people to trace a shape. They Tags: drawing , Pudding

Hong Kong banned single-use plastics often used for food takeaway containers. For South Tags: garbage , plastic , scale , South China Morning Post

Here are the useful tools and resources that came out of April. Tags: roundup

The Marshall Project highlights research on excess mortality in U.S. prisons: The slowdown Tags: Marshall Project , mortality , pandemic

Sleepy time varies as responsibilities shift. Tags: sleep , time use

One of the challenges of understanding the weight of climate change is that Tags: climate change , future , Tardigrade

Using a series of graphics, Reuters explains Israels defense against rockets, also known Tags: defense , Israel , missile , Reuters

For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing Tags: mortgage , Upshot

Small changes over time or small differences between categories can easily look insignificant, even if they're worth noting in real life. Here are chart options for you. Tags: change , difference , small

Two-thirds of adults get at least 7 hours of sleep. I am not in that two-thirds. Tags: rest , sleep

There are packages to make cartograms, but in some cases you might need a more flexible solution. Tags: R

In 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt mandated that those of Japanese descent be sent Tags: census , Japantown , racism , San Francisco Chronicle

For Bloomberg, Daniela Sirtori, Madeline Campbell, and Marie Patino do some product counting: Tags: Bloomberg , ingredient , safety

I missed this announcement at the end of last year: Sherwood Media, LLC Tags: acquisition , Chartr , Sherwood

The National Longitudinal Surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are unique in Tags: Alvin Chang , development , Pudding , teenager

A decade and a half ago, I wrote the first edition of Visualize Tags: writing

NatureQuant processes and analyzes satellite imagery to quantify peoples access to nature. They Tags: cities , nature , NatureQuant , satellite imagery , Washington Post

People need a sense of how distributions work before they can make sense of a histogram. Here's how I (try to) make these misunderstood charts easier to read. Tags: annotation , highlight

As you might expect, the path of totality brought increased activities as people Tags: eclipse , New York Times , people

Variation kicks in when you look at the later years, consider multiple marriages, divorce, separation, and opposite-sex versus same-sex relationships. This chart breaks it all down.

From xkcd, a Rube Goldberg machine that keeps on going. Edit a cell Tags: Rube Goldberg machine , xkcd

Maybe you heard theres a total eclipse happening today. AirDNA mapped Airbnb occupancy Tags: Airbnb , AirDNA , eclipse

The easystats R package in on my to-try list. easystats is a collection Tags: package , R

Show all the data at once so that you can see a full trend efficiently, but show a bit at a time and show how the data builds. Tags: interaction , play

Joanie Lemercier used a grid of spinning paddles that turn with the wind. Tags: Joanie Lemercier , physical , wind

Alexander Miller wrote a fable of emergence that combines Conways Game of Life Tags: Alexander Miller , fable , Game of Life

It continues to get easier to take someones face and put that person Tags: AI , ethics , porn , The Markup

OpenAI previewed Voice Engine, a model to generate voices that mimic, using just Tags: ethics , generative , OpenAI , voice

For Knowing Machines, an ongoing research project that examines the innards of machine Tags: bias , Knowing Machines , LAION-5B , machine learning

Alasdair Rae outlines the basics of visualizing basketball shot data with QGIS, an Tags: Alasdair Rae , basketball , QGIS

I collect visualization tools and learning resources and then round them up at the end of each month. Here's the good stuff for March. Tags: roundup

Satellite imagery on its own can be limited in what it can say Tags: Nightingale , Robert Simmon , satellite imagery , storytelling

This is a fun project by Jan Willem Tulp. Based on data from Tags: history , Jan Willem Tulp , timeline

To gain a better understanding of how ChatGPT works under the hood, Santiago Tags: AI , ChatGPT , Santiago Ortiz

Alec Singh added another dimension to Conways Game of Life for a pretty, Tags: Alec Singh , Game of Life

Find out when it's your time for the glasses and hearing aid. Time is undefeated. Tags: age , hearing , vision

If a chart is seen by enough people, someone will call it misleading. There are no exceptions. Tags: misleading

The World Happiness Report, published each year since 2012, just dropped for 2024. Tags: happiness , rank

Jer Thorp has combined birding and data visualization into a unique course called Tags: birds , Jer Thorp , learning