If you only consider data format to choose your chart type, then yeah, you’re probably approaching the problem too mechanically. But it’s still part of the process.
2021
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Making Fewer Choices – The Process 133
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GDP and vaccination rates
For The New York Times, Keith Collins and Josh Holder look at the…
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Rise of a variant in the U.K.
As you likely know, there are coronavirus variants around the world. Reuters mapped…
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How to Make Ternary Plots in R, with ggplot2
When you want to compare between three parts of your data, ternary plots might be a good option. Here is how to make them.
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Exploring your Google search history
Search history can say a lot of about a person, like where they’re…
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Guess who the neighborhood voted for
NYT’s The Upshot has a quiz that puts you in a neighborhood via…
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Make the Ever Given get stuck anywhere
The Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal. It was refloated. So…
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Steer through the Suez Canal
To better understand the challenge of steering a giant container ship through the…
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Analysis of color names used with makeup
For The Pudding, Ofunne Amaka and Amber Thomas looked at shades, words, and…
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What if a giant banana was orbiting Earth
yeti dynamics imagined if a giant banana were orbiting Earth from the same…
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The Data Journalism Handbook
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice now has a second…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, March 2021 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for March 2021.
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Income in Each State, Adjusted for Cost of Living
A dollar might not buy you as much in one state as it does in the other.
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Which color scale to use for your charts
On a superficial level, color scale selection seems like a straightforward task. Pick…
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Teaching statistical models with wine tasting
For The Pudding, Lars Verspohl provides an introduction to statistical models disguised as…
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Statistical limits
Reviewing Deborah Stone’s Counting and Tim Harford’s The Data Detective, Hannah Fry discusses…
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Inadequate hate crime statistics
For ProPublica, Ken Schwencke reports on a poor data system that relies on…
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Career Timelines for Every Basketball Player Who Has Played an NBA Game
I was curious who played for a single team over their entire career, who skipped around, and how the patterns changed over the decades.
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Maybe All Charts are Bad – The Process 131
But probably not.
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Mapping all of the voters
In what seems to have become a trend of making more and more…
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