2016

Using information graphics to calibrate bias

Design / bias

Our daily lives are full of bias. We make assumptions about how the…
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Drawing Circles and Ellipses in R

Tutorials / R

Whether you use circles as visual encodings or as a way to highlight areas of a plot, there are functions at your disposal.
Slavery in the United States, by decade

Maps / slavery

Mapping slavery from a historical perspective is a challenge, because many old maps…
Here’s how a neural network works

Infographics / neural network, simulation

Daniel Smilkov and Shan Carter at Google put together this interactive learner for…
“Well that escalated quickly.”

Statistical Visualization / Google Trends, humor

This is the trend line from Google Trends for “Well that escalated quickly.”…
School district spending per student

Maps / education, spending

NPR is running a series on spending and school districts and all its…
Shifting Parent Work Hours, Mom vs. Dad

Data Underload / parenting, time use

Articles about stay-at-home dads and parents with even work loads might make it seem like dads are putting in a lot of hours in the household these days. Are they? How do they compare to moms’ work hours?
Interconnectedness of the galaxies

Network Visualization / galaxies, space

A group of researchers are studying how all the galaxies in the universe…
Titanic sinking in real-time

Infographics / real-time, Titanic

Visualization of time is usually about compression so that you can see more…
Stephen Curry 3-point record ridiculousness

Statistical Visualization / basketball, New York Times, Stephen Curry

Stephen Curry made 402 three-pointers this regular season, which is ridiculous. Gregor Aisch…
The Guardian analyzes 70m comments, unearthing online abuse

Statistics / comments, Guardian

Online comments are an odd entity that can get out of hand quickly,…
Every Kobe Bryant shot charted

Maps / basketball, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Times

In celebration of Kobe Bryant’s final game, the Los Angeles Times charted all…
Virus trading cards

Infographics / cards, Eleanor Lutz, virus

Eleanor Lutz made some trading cards — for viruses.
To make the 3D…
Balance the Trump and Cruz tax plans

Infographics / elections, taxes

The tax plans of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump might seem fine if…
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Drawing Squares and Rectangles in R

Tutorials / R

R makes it easy to add squares and rectangles to your plots, but it gets a little tricky when you have a bunch to draw at once. The key is to break it down to the elements.
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Voronoi Diagram and Delaunay Triangulation in R

Tutorials / Delaunay, R, voronoi

The deldir package by Rolf Turner makes the calculations and plotting straightforward, with a few lines of code.
A year of home energy usage, by the hour

Self-surveillance / energy

Michael VanDaniker found that his energy provider, Baltimore Gas and Electric, provides customers…
Rising death rates for white women

Statistical Visualization / mortality, Washington Post

Overall life expectancy continues to increase, but looking at it from the other…
US surveillance flight paths for the FBI and Homeland Security

Maps / BuzzFeed, government, privacy, surveillance

Peter Aldhous and Charles Seife dug into flight path data, specifically looking for…
Treating visualization as a process

Statistics / process

Many people think of visualization as a plug-in tool that spits out something…

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