2021

Inflation in the context of age generations

Statistical Visualization / generations, inflation, New York Times

When you compare the price of things today against prices one year ago,…
Map made of candy corn to show corn production

Maps / candy, corn, Jill Hubley, physical

With candy corn as her medium, Jill Hubley mapped corn production in the…
All the provisions in the Build Back Better bill

Statistical Visualization / government, spending, Upshot

For NYT’s The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui outlined all of the…
Calculating where you should live

Statistics / calculator, housing, live, New York Times

Choosing a place to live is always full of trade-offs, but it’d be…
Most Common Daily Routines

Data Underload / time use

We all have our routines, but from person-to-person, the daily schedule changes a lot depending on your responsibilities.
Euler diagram to illustrate base rate fallacy

Infographics / baseline, coronavirus, vaccination

Some people point out that vaccinated people are still hospitalized as a defense…
Communicating effectiveness of boosters

Statistics / booster, coronavirus, Guardian, risk, vaccination

Statisticians David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters for The Guardian on reframing risk estimates:…
3-D modeling the french fry universe

Infographics / 3-d, Chris Williams, french fries

What is the best french fry shape? Curly of course. But Chris Williams…
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Connecting Data to Practicality – The Process 166

The Process / audience, reality

It’s a shift from answering “What is this data?” to “So what?”
Increased maternal death in the United States

Statistical Visualization / birth, mortality, New York Times

While still relatively rare, maternal mortality in the United States increased over the…
Job growth was underestimated

Statistical Visualization / jobs, uncertainty, Washington Post

Andrew Van Dam for The Washington Post used a bar chart with corrections…
Census Mapper, a tool to visualize population and racial shifts

Maps / census, Google News Initiative, Pitch Interactive, population, race

Pitch Interactive and the Census 2020 Data Co-op, supported by the Google News…
Partisan gap in Covid death counts

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, David Leonhardt, New York Times, partisanship

David Leonhardt for The New York Times looked at the partisan gap for…
Map of highway signs

Maps / cities, commute, interstate, Matt Dzugan

This is a fun map by Matt Dzugan. Search for a city, and…
Scale of ocean depths

Infographics / 3-d, depth, MetaBallStudios, ocean, scale

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We know the oceans are deep, but it’s…
Optimizing retail spaces

Statistics / New York Times, optimization, privacy, retail, shopping

Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of…
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Goodbye, Chartjunk – The Process 164

The Process / chartjunk

A term to indicate that visual elements add nothing meaningful has itself become nonessential to making and discussing charts.
Palm oils and rainforest destruction

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, palm oil, rainforest

Palm oil is in our food, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, and biofuels, but it…
Commuting calculator

Infographics / commute, scale, Sergio Peçanha, Washington Post

Sergio Peçanha and Yan Wu for The Washington Post made a calculator that…
How Much Women and Men Work

Data Underload / work

This chart shows the shifts since 1960.

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