If I had to pick just one.
2021
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Chart Types or Visual Encodings – The Process 156
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Atlas of the Invisible
James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti teamed up for another book of maps, Atlas…
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Black mortality gap
Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area…
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Bitcoin power usage
You might have heard that Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity. More than…
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How Much More Time We Spent at Home
We had to do more from home. Here’s how much everything shifted by total minutes in a day.
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A Bar Chart Would Be Worse – The Process 155
Bar charts are the simple answer. Maybe you’re not looking for simple though.
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New Orleans power outage seen via satellite imagery
After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans experienced power outages. The NASA Earth Observatory show…
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How Humans Judge Machines
How Humans Judge Machines is an academic publication covering the results of experiments…
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Tracking wildfires in the west
Wildfires continue to burn in the western United States. The New York Times…
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AI-generated movie posters
Noah Veltman fed an AI movie descriptions and made it generate images. The…
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Repulsive curves
Chris Yu, Henrik Schumacher, and Keenan Crane from Carnegie Mellon University are working…
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Lightning algorithm
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, August 2021
Here’s the good stuff for August.
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Cycle of Many, a 24-hour snapshot for a day in the life of Americans
This is a 24-hour snapshot for a day in the life of Americans.
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Machine learning explained at five difficulty levels
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Diversity within the Asian population
Robert Gebeloff, Denise Lu and Miriam Jordan for The New York Times looked…
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Inflation isn’t that exciting
For NYT Opinion, Josh Bivens and Stuart A. Thompson argue that you don’t…
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NBA carry jobs
With professional basketball, we often hear about carry jobs. There’s one star player…
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Different Points of View from the Same Data – The Process 153
It still amazes me that you can give multiple people the same dataset and the results can vary depending on questions, goals, and audience.
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Daily Routine, 2020
After looking at how much time we spent on daily activities in 2020, let’s look at when we spent our time.