2021

Climate change postcards from every country

Infographics / climate change, New York Times, postcards

The effects of climate change can be seen around the world, in the…
Leland Wilkinson, creator of The Grammar of Graphics, passed away

Statistical Visualization / Leland Wilkinson

Leland Wilkinson passed away on Friday, according to his daughter Amie. In visualization…
Most used emoji for the year

Statistical Visualization / emoji

I am told people use these things called emoji in their messages to…
Stephen Curry career threes compared to other players

Statistical Visualization / basketball, record, Stephen Curry, Washington Post

Stephen Curry is about to break the record for number of three-pointers made…
Animated map of microplastics in the ocean

Maps / NASA, ocean, pollution

Using estimates based on satellite data, Joshua Stevens for NASA Earth Observatory mapped…
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Get Input – The Process 168

The Process / feedback

What happens when you spend too much time with a dataset.
What People Spend Most of Their Money On, By Income Group, Relatively Speaking

Data Underload / spending

More money on average means bigger houses, more expensive cars, and fancier restaurants. But what if you look at relative spending instead of total dollars?
Clock shows percentage of life lived so far

Data Art / clock, Dries Depoorter, mortality

Shortlife is a clock by artist Dries Depoorter that simply shows the percentage…
TikTok algorithms work because of a lot of data

Statistics / algorithm, New York Times, TikTok

Ben Smith for The New York Times got an internal document that outlines…
Family safety app sells location data to third parties

Data Sharing / Life360, privacy, The Markup

Life360 is a service that lets families keep track of where members are…
AI-powered artwork app

Data Art / AI, Wombo

Wombo Dream is a fun app that lets you enter some words to…
Shrinking the Mercator projection to equal area

Maps / Mercator, Neil Kaye, projections

It’s been a while since we got our regular reminder that the Mercator…
Bees use social distancing

Infographics / bees, Economist, social distancing

Research by M. Pusceddu et al. shows that honeybees use social distancing when…
Emissions and energy usage from Ethereum network

Statistical Visualization / cryptocurrency, emissions, Ethereum, Kyle McDonald

It seems clear that Ethereum (and other cryptocurrencies) in its current state is…
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I’m opening the print shop for a few days. Get your order in,…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, November 2021 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for November.
Rapidly growing African cities

Statistical Visualization / Africa, population, Washington Post

In a multi-faceted piece, The Washington Post described the rapidly growing cities in…
Bird power rankings

Statistics / birds, ranking, Washington Post

Using data from Project FeederWatch, which is a community tracking project to count…
Thanksgiving Ravine

Chart Everything / email, Thanksgiving

I scraped my inbox when I got a bunch of emails on Cyber…
Simpson’s Paradox in vaccination data

Mistaken Data / coronavirus, Simpson's Paradox, vaccination

This chart, made by someone who is against vaccinations, shows a higher mortality…

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