FlowingData

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

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

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

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

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

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

Using data from the Federal Election Commission, the Washington Post called out the Tags: donors , election , politics , Washington Post

For 404 Media, Jason Koebler collated the dumb emails they receive from dumb Tags: 404 Media , annoying , bot , email

This week, there were a lot of trade-offs between utility and aesthetics. How do you find the balance? Tags: trade-off

9/11 in Realtime, developed by Robbie Byrd, replays the news on the day Tags: 9/11 , news , real-time , Robbie Byrd

In 2013, a video on U.S. wealth inequality was posted to YouTube by Tags: politizane , wealth

Riley Walz charted drawing trends on student art portfolio Artsonia. Kids shape culture, Tags: Artsonia , drawing , Riley Walz , trends

This week is about adapting our visualization workflow as the tools change dramatically. Tags: analysis , tools

Imagine a pottery wheel that turns clay on an axis. A potter forms Tags: curve , Karim Doueb , pottery

Due to Covid, Indias census count is overdue by five years. But theyre Tags: Bloomberg , census , India , population

The summer of 2026 will most likely be the hottest summer on record Tags: global warming , temperature , Washington Post

For the New York Times, Pablo Robles, Leanne Abraham, and Josh Holder mapped Tags: flood , Nepal , New York Times

Flock Safety has been getting some hate lately, because as it turns out, Tags: Darth Vader , Flock , privacy

There is a simple law from John Hack that says the length of Tags: drainage , Quanta , rivers

Older people are working later in life and younger people are not entering the labor force as early. Tags: labor force , work

Kieran Healy, a professor of sociology at Duke University, gives an enjoyable lecture Tags: Kieran Healy , trust

For the New York Times, Mira Rojanasakul and Brad Plumer report on the Tags: electric vehicle , New York Times

Spirit Airlines went bankrupt for real this time, and Google bought the data. Tags: Gizmodo , Google , Spirit Airlines , training

For the Wall Street Journal, Peter Rudegeair and Peter Santilli report on the Tags: spending , technology , Wall Street Journal

Suspecting that an anonymous order of 1,000 books was headed to an AI Tags: 404 Media , Amazon , tracking , training

To avoid heavy solar tariffs, China allegedly moved manufacturing to other countries. When Tags: Bloomberg , China , solar , tariff

For NYTs the Upshot, Eve Washington, Larry Buchanan, and Claire Cain Miller examined Tags: emoji , New York Times

This week, we talk flimsy results and how to work on things that build trust over content. Tags: Large Language Model , mistakes , trust

In the early 1900s, Henry Gannett cataloged the origins of city names in Tags: cities , Henry Gannett , history , names , Wall Street Journal

Speaking of IKEA, the IKEA complexity index by Greg Technology is a catalog Tags: complexity , furniture , Greg Technology , IKEA

For the European Correspondent, Toon Vos counted the color of all the couches Tags: color , European Correspondent , furniture , IKEA

The last total solar eclipse over Europe was in 1999. One will be Tags: eclipse , Europe , Reuters

A total eclipse path is passing through Europe this week. The New York Tags: eclipse , Europe , New York Times

To augment its network of license plate readers, surveillance company Flock drew up Tags: 404 Media , Flock , privacy , rideshare

For sheets.works, Akash Wadhwani visualized the mapping efforts of volunteers after an earthquake Tags: Akash Wadhwani , buildings , earthquake , OpenStreetMap

This is issue No. 400 of the Process. Four hundred. It only took me eight years. Tags: future , past , present