2021

Russell Jeung, chair of the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State…

For Kontinentalist, Isabella Chua took a dive into the evolution of Chinese names:…

For Quartz, Amanda Shendruk and Marc Bain analyzed skin tones that appeared in…

As a lead-in and backdrop to a timeline of the past year by…

As part of their Citizen Browser project to inspect Facebook, The Markup shows…

Alicia Parlapiano and Josh Katz, reporting for NYT’s The Upshot, plotted the average…

Seeing CO2, by design studio Extraordinary Facility, is a playable data visualization that…

Bad charts get made. It’s inevitable. Sometimes I wonder how it happens though.

BirdCast, from Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, shows current…

Chris Ume, with the help of Tom Cruise impersonator Miles Fisher, created highly…

Speaking of A.I. and fiction, Adam Epstein for Quartz reported on how Wattpad,…

Pamela Miskhin, in collaboration with The Pudding, wrote a love story. It’s not…

The Royal Statistical Society published ten lessons governments should takeaway from this year,…

There was a lot of uncertainty in the beginning of the pandemic, so…

For Reuters, Julia Janicki and Simon Scarr, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, show…

Every month I collect new visualization tools and learning resources to help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for February 2021.

RAWGraphs, a tool conceived by DensityDesign in 2013, got a 2.0 update in…

This is quite a dive by Moises Velasquez-Manoff and Jeremy White for The…

As schools begin to reopen, The New York Times illustrates why classrooms should…