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Bloomberg used mountain peaks to show the shifts towards Democrats and Republicans. Taller Tags: Bloomberg , elections , midterm

The New York Times brings back the angled arrows to map the shift Tags: elections , midterm , New York Times

James Birdle described his experiment using AI to assist in chair design: What Tags: chair , creativity , Emergence Magazine , James Birdle , process

For the Washington Post, Dylan Moriarty has a live tracker for the percentage Tags: turnout , voting , Washington Post

If feeling uncertain is your thing, the Needle from the New York Times Tags: election , midterm , needle , New York Times , uncertainty

As midterm election results come in tonight, percentages can flip in favor of Tags: election , forecast , New York Times , uncertainty

During the World Series, Google ran an ad for Gemini that noted several Tags: baseball , cherrypicking , Google , Marcos Huerta , moon

Elon Musk has donated $446 million for the midterm elections, because sure why Tags: election , Elon Musk , Guardian , midterm , spending

For the Washington Sun, Andrew Van Dam and Manuela Silva note the uptick Tags: body , Washington Sun , words

What candies usually land in the throwaway pile? Tags: candy , Halloween

With more demonstrations and protests in India, Reuters charts and illustrates current tactics Tags: India , police , protest

Last month, the Wealth Inequality in America video by Politizane got an update Tags: billionaires , scale , scroll , wealth

Every month, I gather tools and resources to make better charts that communicate and reveal. Here is what happened in October. Tags: roundup

For the New York Times, Arfa Momin and Ron Lieber charted median income Tags: college , education , income , New York Times

For the Pudding, Owen Lacey analyzed the network of Hollywood actors connected by Tags: Kevin Bacon , Owen Lacey , Pudding , separation

For the New York Times, Raj Saha and Blacki Migliozzi used mazes to Tags: New York Times , rogue , training

Local Wikipedia, by Ed Jefferson, subsets regular Wikipedia to people, places, and things Tags: Ed Jefferson , local , Wikipedia

On a per token basis, the cost of using LLMs from Anthropic and Tags: Anthropic , cost , Max Woolf , OpenAI

You know the about pages on every site that provide a summary of Tags: 3-D , body , Neal Agarwal

For Development Seed, Kiri Carini and Martha Morrissey explain what embeddings are and Tags: Development Seed , embeddings , geospatial , guide , training

Terence Tao has become the unofficial spokesperson for the future of mathematics. Elisabeth Tags: math , New York Times , OpenAI , Terence Tao

Mathematician and Cornell professor Steven Strogatz was a guest on NYTs Daily podcast Tags: math , New York Times , purpose , Steven Strogatz

This week, we switch the chart defaults to non-defaults. Tags: creativity , default

If your electricity provider is an investor-owned company, its likely youre paying more Tags: Bloomberg , cost , electricity

Results from the Survey of Consumer Finances for 2025 were recently released, which means it is time for another rendition of seeing who has a higher net worth. Tags: net worth , wealth

Stephen Follows counted the number of shots in movies, from 1920 through 2025. Tags: movies , shots , Stephen Follows

More big numbers coming in. For NYTs the Upshot, Aatish Bhatia demonstrates the Tags: Aatish Bhatia , calculations , scale , training , Upshot

This is fun, or I guess very serious depending on your point of Tags: climate change , Georgios Karamanis , screensaver , stripes

There is a proposition on the California ballot this year to impose a Tags: billionaires , California , New York Times , Nicholas Konrad , scale , taxes

This week, I walk through my own thinking as I poke at fresh data. Tags: analysis

This is really going to surprise you, but the wealthy people in the Tags: rich , Wall Street Journal , wealth

In reference to the xkcd comic that illustrates the internet as a stack Tags: Internet , open-source , sheets.works

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery published a Tags: database , Guardian , Legacies of British Slavery , slavery

Daniel Willingham, a professor at the University of Virginia, argues that students should Tags: Daniel Willingham , education , students

Data for Progress compared social activities among American adults in 1995 against 2026. Tags: Data for Progress , social

Torahmap by Danyel Fisher is an interactive visualization of the Hebrew Bible. Each Tags: Danyel Fisher , Tanakh , text

A population pyramid shows the age distribution of a population, usually with counts Tags: Karim Doueb , population , world

This week is about helping data stand out in the land of many points. Tags: attention , contrast

Harvard researchers published an analysis arguing that risk of cancer increases when people Tags: Breakthrough Institute , cancer , causation , Costco

Is there something that comes after we die? For the Pudding, Alvin Chang Tags: Alvin Chang , life , mortality , Pudding , religion

Duncan Bradley made a zine of one-liners from data visualization folks. It is Tags: Duncan Bradley , guide

Over summer break, MIT installed over 500 AI-enabled surveillance cameras around campus. In Tags: camera , MIT , privacy

This week is about finding your way by getting lost in the data. Tags: creativity , process

Large language models are heavily dependent on training data to determine what comes Tags: Aatish Bhatia , puzzle , training

Jane Wickline impersonated Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for Saturday Night Lives Weekend Update. Tags: Dario Amodei , doom , humor , Jane Wickline , Saturday Night Live

Bert Spaan, with help from Jules Schoonman, made an elevation map for the Tags: Bert Spaan , elevation , world

New to me, Tom Gauld, for New Scientist, made a fine pie chart Tags: comic , humor , Mars , New Scientist , Tom Gauld

Thin Air, Real Money is a game to help you understand the cryptocurrency Tags: cryptocurrency , game

Celebrating 30 seasons of the WNBA, ESPN has a fun piece on the Tags: basketball , ESPN , WNBA

Here's what happened in September. Tags: roundup