There are a lot of tools to visualize data. Some are visualization-specific. Some are tools that let you make charts but are focused on other data things. New apps come out with new features that promise new things. This can make it tricky to find the best visualization tool. Tag … | Continue reading
To capture solar energy for use in the evening, batteries have grown in… Tags: batteries, electricity, New York Times | Continue reading
When you analyze data, there are times when a trend, pattern, or outlier jumps out and smacks you in the face. Or, you might calculate results that seem surprising. Maybe they're real, but maybe not. Tags: analysis, error, questions | Continue reading
Imagine that you try to do something and there's a 20% chance of success. If you try to do the thing six times, what is the probability that you succeed at least once? Tags: Andrew Huberman, binomial, probability, simulation | Continue reading
Based on data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Villanova University… Tags: magnetic fields, Milky Way, NASA, Strange Maps | Continue reading
PerThirtySix made a communal plot that asks for your opinion via scatterplot and… Tags: PerThirtySix, sharing, social | Continue reading
From the oldie-but-goodie department, this fun program uses a genetic algorithm to drive… Tags: algorithm, optimization | Continue reading
For Reuters, Mariano Zafra, Anurag Rao, and Jon McClure describe how bird flu… Tags: bird flu, Reuters | Continue reading
We get 24 hours in a day. How do we spend this time? How does our time use change as we get older and priorities shift? Tags: age, time use | Continue reading
Maybe one day AI tools will be advanced enough to process a random dataset and produce valuable insights that incorporate the context of the real world. That day is not today. Tags: AI, generative, mashup | Continue reading
Stephen Wolfram gets into modeling biological evolution: Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work? Both are examples of adaptive processes that surpr… | Continue reading
You might’ve heard a little something about AI these past few months. If… Tags: AI, ethics, Hack Club, Nicky Case | Continue reading
It’s been over 200 years since the cicadas of Brood XIII and Brood… Tags: Cicada, New York Times | Continue reading
The cicadas are coming. This year is unique, because there are two broods… Tags: Cicada, CNN | Continue reading
Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, set out to plant and conserve 1… Tags: Bloomberg, Marc Benioff, scale, trees | Continue reading
The TikTok account Globetrots combines Google Earth and text-to-speech to show top-ten lists… Tags: AI, generative, listicle, storytelling, TikTok | Continue reading
In our younger years, we have school and more important things to do, but then we get older and there are bills to pay. Tags: time use, work | Continue reading
Knowing what's next can help you work through a tedious step, because you know it'll be worth it. Tags: steps | Continue reading
A deeply insightful map from xkcd. See also: 19 maps that will blow… Tags: humor, xkcd | Continue reading
Based on estimates from the Crowd Counting Consortium, the Washington Post shows the… Tags: college, protest, Washington Post | Continue reading
Reddit user ChangsManagement mapped where NHL hockey players were born, based on data… Tags: birth, NHL | Continue reading
Daniel Shiffman, who you might know from his enthusiastic YouTube channel The Coding… Tags: Daniel Shiffman | Continue reading
The Pudding ran an experiment that asked people to trace a shape. They… Tags: drawing, Pudding | Continue reading
Hong Kong banned single-use plastics often used for food takeaway containers. For South… Tags: garbage, plastic, scale, South China Morning Post | Continue reading
Here are the useful tools and resources that came out of April. Tags: roundup | Continue reading
The Marshall Project highlights research on excess mortality in U.S. prisons: The slowdown… Tags: Marshall Project, mortality, pandemic | Continue reading
Sleepy time varies as responsibilities shift. Tags: sleep, time use | Continue reading
One of the challenges of understanding the weight of climate change is that… Tags: climate change, future, Tardigrade | Continue reading
Using a series of graphics, Reuters explains Israel’s defense against rockets, also known… Tags: defense, Israel, missile, Reuters | Continue reading
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing… Tags: mortgage, Upshot | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
Two-thirds of adults get at least 7 hours of sleep. I am not in that two-thirds. Tags: rest, sleep | Continue reading
There are packages to make cartograms, but in some cases you might need a more flexible solution. Tags: R | Continue reading
In 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt mandated that those of Japanese descent be sent… Tags: census, Japantown, racism, San Francisco Chronicle | Continue reading
For Bloomberg, Daniela Sirtori, Madeline Campbell, and Marie Patino do some product counting:… Tags: Bloomberg, ingredient, safety | Continue reading
I missed this announcement at the end of last year: Sherwood Media, LLC… Tags: acquisition, Chartr, Sherwood | Continue reading
The National Longitudinal Surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are unique in… Tags: Alvin Chang, development, Pudding, teenager | Continue reading
A decade and a half ago, I wrote the first edition of Visualize… Tags: writing | Continue reading
NatureQuant processes and analyzes satellite imagery to quantify people’s access to nature. They… Tags: cities, nature, NatureQuant, satellite imagery, Washington Post | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
As you might expect, the path of totality brought increased activities as people… Tags: eclipse, New York Times, people | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
From xkcd, a Rube Goldberg machine that keeps on going. Edit a cell… Tags: Rube Goldberg machine, xkcd | Continue reading
Maybe you heard there’s a total eclipse happening today. AirDNA mapped Airbnb occupancy… Tags: Airbnb, AirDNA, eclipse | Continue reading
The easystats R package in on my to-try list. easystats is a collection… Tags: package, R | Continue reading
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 | Continue reading
Joanie Lemercier used a grid of spinning paddles that turn with the wind.… Tags: Joanie Lemercier, physical, wind | Continue reading
Alexander Miller wrote a “fable of emergence” that combines Conway’s Game of Life… Tags: Alexander Miller, fable, Game of Life | Continue reading