2021

With vaccines, we might be tempted to jump back into “normal” life before…

Maybe you remember the SimCity-like views through satellite imagery from a few of…

Thomas Mock explains how to extract and parse data tables in image files…

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Jon Schwabish has a new book coming out:…

I make most of my static charts in R, but I always bring them into Illustrator for polish, layout, and readability. Here’s my process.

The New York Times labeled all of the people sitting behind Joe Biden…

Based on estimates from the MIT Trancik Lab, The New York Times plotted…

For Bloomberg, Jeremy C.F. Lin and Rachael Dottle show what Joe Biden’s inauguration…

For NYT’s The Upshot, Kevin Quealy has been cataloging all of the insults…

As you probably know, there was a big Parler data scrape before the…

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Tom Scott explains how Cloudflare uses a wall…

The best way to make charts more interesting is to provide lots of details, which requires more work on your end but pays off in the end result.

In an effort to preserve part of her family’s culture, Jane Zhang designed…

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Just before the social network Parler went down, a researcher who goes by…

The New York Times outlined the minutes from the speech leading to the…

For The Atlantic, Dani Alexis Ryskamp compares the financials of The Simpsons against…

Last year, around the time when people were baking a lot of things,…

Natalie Wolchover for Quanta Magazine asked several physicists what a particle is. She…

For NYT’s The Upshot, Nate Cohn explains how Warnock and Ossoff won Georgia.…