2021

In the last roundup of 2021, here’s the good stuff for December.

This is Hallgrímskirkja, a church in Reykjavík, Iceland. It will now also be…

The David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford houses hundreds of thousands of maps…

Justin Sherman for Wired points out the farce that is anonymized data:
Data…

Denise Lu and Albert Sun for The New York Times show the shifts…

xkcd makes Statistics so fulfilling. George E. P. Box comes to mind.…

Magnus Carlsen continued to assert his dominance at the World Chess Championship. FiveThirtyEight…

Many colleges use virtual proctoring software in an effort to reduce cheating on…

Based on data from autonomous sensors floating in the oceans, researchers are able…

The COVID-19 Online Visualization Collection is a project to catalog Covid-related graphics across…

NASA is launching the James Webb Space Telescope on December 22, 2021 with…

Zach Levitt and Bonnie Berkowitz for The Washington Post mapped and animated the…

Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah, Jeffrey M. Zacks, and Jessica…

You know it’s the holiday season when Mariah Carey starts singing about wanting…

A little bit of sorting and organization can make a big difference in readability.

NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe in 2018 in an effort to explore closer to the sun.

Vaccine supply is only part of the equation. For The New York Times,…

Lazaro Gamio and Peter S. Goodman for The New York Times used a…