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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Colorado River is at risk due to drought and states using more Tags: Colorado River , consumption , drought , Reuters , water

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

Mathematician Terence Tao, a 2006 Fields Medal winner and professor at UCLA, discusses Tags: Big Think , math , paradox , Terence Tao

There are thousands of crew members aboard U.S. warships in the Middle East. Tags: Iran , logistics , New York Times , war

Observable, known for visualization-centric notebooks to share code, restarted fresh to adjust for Tags: notebook , Observable

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

Here is what happened in August. Tags: roundup

For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill analyzed newsletters and social media posts Tags: data center , politics , Washington Post

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

When you spend more than you make, you get debt. For the Washington Tags: debt , government , revenue , spending , Washington Post

This week is about changing perspectives so we can find and visualize new insights. Tags: perspective

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

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

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