xkcd: U.S. of movie backgrounds

The ever so popular Walmart growth map gets an update, and yes, it still looks like a wildfire. Sam’s Club follows soon after, although not nearly as vigorously.

I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.

It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year.

In celebration of their 100-year anniversary, the American Film Institute …