2021

Scoring hospitals by billing quality

Statistical Visualization / Axios, billing, hospital

Using data collected by Johns Hopkins University, Michelle McGhee and Will Chase for…
Delaying motherhood

Maps / birth rate, children, motherhood, New York Times

The New York Times mapped birth rates, which are down almost everywhere, especially…
Passing restrictive voting bills

Infographics / bills, government, voting

Bloomberg used a Sankey diagram to show the path of over a thousand…
India vaccine procurement compared to other countries

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, India, Reuters, vaccine

Prasanta Kumar Dutta and Manas Mishra reporting for Reuters on the slow rollout…
Welcome to heat dome

Infographics / climate change, heat dome, Washington Post

It’s hot here in the western United States, and it’s only mid-June. From…
Measuring centuries-old droughts through tree rings

Infographics / Alvin Chang, drought, Guardian, tree ring

To measure drought in the present day, we use data from sensors that…
Graphs before anyone knew what they were

Statistical Visualization / book, history, Howard Wainer, Michael Friendly, New Yorker

Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer have a new book out: A History of…
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Breaking Down a Chart Design – The Process 144

The Process / trade-off, workflow

This week I broke down one of my projects and explained as many of the design choices as I could.
Spatula, a Python library for maintainable web scraping

Software / Python, scraping

This looks promising:
While it is often easy, and tempting, to write a…
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How to Make Alluvial Diagrams

Tutorials / color, Excel, Illustrator, layout, R

Here’s how to do it in R from start to finish, plus editing in illustration software. Make design choices and trade-offs for more readable charts.
Collapse of Mexico City Metro explained

Infographics / crash, metro, New York Times, scrollytelling

The New York Times investigated the collapse of the Metro, which killed 26…
xkcd: Base Rate

Infographics / baseline, humor, xkcd

xkcd points out the importance of considering the baseline when making comparisons:…
Scale of a mouse plague

Infographics / Australia, mouse, plague, scale, Washington Post

There’s a mouse plague in Australia right now. The words alone don’t express…
Drought in the Western United States

Maps / climate change, drought, Nadja Popovich, New York Times

In what’s become a recurring theme almost every year, the western United States…
Tapestry for reflective data visualization

Data Art / Catherine Madden, physical, weaving

As a way to reflect on 2020, Catherine Madden wove tapestry to visualize…
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Slow – The Process 143

The Process / slow

If you’ve got it, take the time to understand and explore your data in the places others rushed through.
All the passes in soccer visualized at once

Statistical Visualization / Karim Douïeb, passing, soccer

This is a fun soccer graphic by Karim Douïeb. It shows 882,536 passes…
Billionaire tax rates

Statistics / billionaires, money, ProPublica, taxes

ProPublica anonymously obtained billionaires’ tax returns. Combining the data with Forbes’ billionaire wealth…
Seeing How Much We Ate Over the Years

Data Underload / diet, food, USDA

How long will chicken reign supreme? Who wins between lemon and lime? Is nonfat ice cream really ice cream? Does grapefruit ever make a comeback? Find out in these charts.
Money-in-politics nonprofits merge their datasets

Data Sources / government, money, OpenSecrets, politics

Center for Responsive Politics and National Institute on Money in Politics are merging…

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