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

For Rest of World, Victoria Turk breaks down bias in generative AI in Tags: AI , bias , midjourney , Rest of World

This looks fun. The Pudding is running an experiment that functions like a Tags: loss , Pudding , Russell Samora , sketch

Bartosz Ciechanowski is at it again with an in-depth explainer that makes heavy Tags: airfoil , Bartosz Ciechanowski , flight

On April 8, 2024, the moon is going to completely block the sun Tags: eclipse , satellite imagery , Washington Post

For the past few years, Laurie Anderson has been using an AI chatbot Tags: AI , chatbot , Guardian , Large Language Model

Every chart type has its trade-offs. So instead of trying to show everything at once, use multiple views to show things separate. Tags: multiples , simplicity

For the New York Times, Eve Kahn describes the use of maps outside Tags: decor , New York Times

How common are wide age gaps between spouses? These are the age differences through the lens of the 2022 five-year American Community Survey. Tags: age , marriage , relationships

AI is finding its way into the HR workflow to sift through resumes. Tags: bias , Bloomberg , OpenAI , race , resume

For NYTs The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia and Emily Badger model how colleges might Tags: admissions , college , SAT , Upshot

Rolling Stone published a list in 2003 that ranked the 500 greatest albums Tags: Chris Dalla Riva , Matt Daniels , music , polling , Pudding

The climate is changing, which means some crops will fair better or worse Tags: agriculture , climate , food , Stamen

Welcome to The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at Tags: baseline , point of view , questions

A title drop is when a movie mentions its own name during the Tags: Alice Thudt , dialogue , Dominikus Baur , movies , title

There is a recurring argument that line chart baselines must start at zero, because anything else would be misleading. The critique is misguided. Tags: baseline , rules

Microchips have gotten tiny. Like smaller than a red blood cell tiny. Financial Tags: chip , Financial Times , manufacturing , scale

Theres a total eclipse (a real one, not of the heart) happening on Tags: Bloomberg , eclipse

For CNN, Amy OKruk and Kenneth Uzquiano asked what would happen if we Tags: CNN , leap year