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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
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