2016

Google A.I. Experiments

Statistics / artificial intelligence, Google

In an effort to get people more interested in and to learn about…
Glow map

Design / cartography, glowing, John Nelson

John Nelson has a knack for making maps that glow, where the base…
Showing uncertainty during the live election forecast

Statistical Visualization / election, New York Times, uncertainty

During the election, The New York Times showed a live gauge to show…
Generate color palettes automatically

Apps / color

Default color schemes are often horrible, but spending a lot of time putting…
Data Sketches, a monthly visualization matchup

Data Art / collaboration, contrast

Data Sketches, a collaboration between Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu, aims to visualize…
Resources to Find the Data You Need, 2016 Edition

Guides / datasets, resources

This is an update to the guide I wrote in 2009, which as it turns out, is now mostly outdated. So, 2016. Here we go.
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Transitioning Map, Part 2: Refining the Format and Layout

Tutorials / interpolation, R

How to make a more readable and more visually accurate map, before you dive into the big transitions.
Peaks and valleys of presidential support

Maps / election, Washington Post

This is some fine map work by Lazaro Gamio and Dan Keating for…
Randomness of scientific impact

Statistical Visualization / randomness, science

A group of researchers wondered if there was a trend or predictability for…
Together

Sketchbook

Here we go.…
Textured SVG patterns in JavaScript

Coding / fills, JavaScript, patterns

In case you didn’t get the memo, pattern fills are back and so…
Nuclear war is on the ballot

Infographics / election, nuclear

Neil Halloran, creator of the interactive World War II documentary focused on deaths,…
Newspaper endorsements since 1980

Data Sources / election, endorsement, newspaper

Noah Veltman put together a history of newspapers’ presidential endorsements since 1980 for…
Majority minorities

Sketchbook / animation, population, R, race

We saw the changing percentage of white people in the United States and…
Percentage of white people

Sketchbook / animation, population, race

Below is the estimated percentage of white population in the United States from…
All the ways to map election results

Maps / election, New York Times

Every election, there’s a slew of election maps that come in all shapes…
Two Centuries of Population, Animated

Data Underload / America, population

A visual history of a growing United States.
Impact of Obamacare in maps

Maps / insurance, Upshot

It’s been three years since the Affordable Health Care Act. Margot Sanger-Katz and…
Sentiment analysis on Trump and Clinton faces during debate

Statistics / election, sentiment, vision

For anyone who watched the presidential debates, I think it was fairly obvious…
Vintage cartography and geography documentary, from 1961

Maps / cartography, documentary

This is too good not to watch. It’s a 1961 documentary on cartography…

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