Its impossible to know the exact number of Covid deaths worldwide, because consistent Tags: coronavirus , counting , estimation , Howtown

Here is the good stuff for the month. Tags: roundup

Christopher Wolfram explains his unnecessarily detailed analysis of the spelling game from the Tags: Christopher Wolfram , game , Spelling Bee

After years of enthusiastic discussions, editors eventually and begrudgingly came to a conclusion. Tags: spelling , Wikipedia , yogurt

A global map of climate change can make a few degrees of rising Tags: climate , Derek Taylor , global warming , Pudding

For WPs Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura Tags: names , trends , Washington Post

State Farm wont be renewing about 30,000 policies because of high wildfire and Tags: insurance , San Francisco Chronicle , State Farm

Visualization and analysis is usually about minimizing uncertainty to more clearly see patterns. On the other hand, games force you to play through uncertainty. Tags: games , uncertainty

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman provide evidence that Perplexity, an AI-based Tags: AI , ethics , ownership , Perplexity , Wired

Neven Mrgan describes what it was like to get an AI-generated email from Tags: AI , email , Neven Mrgan

Its abnormally hot in a large portion of the United States, and its Tags: heat , New York Times , warning

As you get older, it might start to feel like everyone is getting younger around you. At what point are you older than the majority? Tags: age , old , young

Vivek Rao likes to play Sudoku, enough that he collected data on his Tags: game , Sudoku , Vivek Rao

Thinking about life and randomness, Cameron Sun modified the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe. Tags: Cameron Sun , game , probability

Visualization tends towards familiarity and convenience, which is useful for getting things done and reading data quickly. But the familiar is also less fun and can be stifling. Tags: beginners , possibilities

Job types changed over the years, because there were these things called computers that created occupations and shifted others. How did income change for different jobs, relative to everyone else? Tags: income , rank , work

I talked to Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic about my early motivations, FD origins, the Tags: podcast , storytelling with data

Stamen, whose design breakdowns I always appreciate, discusses why they took a different Tags: Stamen , uncertainty , wind

Ren Yuan visualized the GitHub commit history for the PyTorch library. The virtual Tags: 3-d , GitHub , Ren Yuan , sonification

During the Dallas Stars away games during this years NHL playoffs, fans could Tags: hockey , motion tracking , physical , SMT , sports

Dr Pepper steadily rose and Pepsi steadily decline over the past couple of Tags: Beverage Digest , Dr Pepper , Pepsi , soda , Wall Street Journal

Sometimes the noise in a dataset makes it hard to see the worthwhile patterns when you visualize it. Here are chart options for you. Tags: noise , options

For NYT, Sam Anderson, with illustrations by Gaia Alari, tells the story of Tags: dogs , New York Times , pets , storytelling

Currently is a prototype ambient display that shows where your energy comes from. Tags: energy , light , Universal Everything

The Painted Ladies houses, which includes the house from the 1990s sitcom Full Tags: Painted Ladies , San Francisco Chronicle , taxes

A Wheel of Fortune contestant employed strategies outlined in a NYT Upshot analysis Tags: Scott Menke , Upshot , Wheel of Fortune

There might be times when you want to visualize data with area, but Tags: area , Krisztina Szcs

Here's the good stuff for the month. Tags: roundup

I had a chat with Jon Schwabish on The PolicyViz Podcast. We talked Tags: Jon Schwabish , podcast , PolicyViz

Teresa Ibarra used Facebook Messenger to text with her now ex-boyfriend almost a Tags: relationships , Teresa Ibarra , texting

The second edition of Visualize This is published. The book made its way Tags: learning , publishing , writing

Last week, a Singapore Airlines flight experienced turbulence that led to one person Tags: flights , Reuters , Singapore Airlines , turbulence

YouGov surveyed 2,000 adults asking them when was the best and worst decades Tags: great , nostalgia , Washington Post , YouGov

In case you need a large dataset to train your chatbot and Tags: ChatGPT , WildChat

To keep track of performance, Matt Stiles made the Dodgers Data Bot, which Tags: baseball , dashboard , Dodgers , Matt Stiles

Reading the words of my younger self and revisiting that guy's process was... educational. Tags: book , writing

The recent solar storms brought pretty lights to the night sky in some Tags: Bloomberg , energy , solar , storm

I dont know about you, but where I live, the housing prices keep Tags: cost , housing , Washington Post

Visualize This is a real book now! The official publication date is May Tags: published

Wilson Lin used an abstract map to visualize 40 million posts and comments Tags: Hacker News , Wilson Lin