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  • Shifting flight paths for wealthy Russians

    Maps  /  flights, New York Times, Russia, wealth

    For The New York Times, Pablo Robles, Anton Troianovski, and Agnes Chang mapped…

  • Possible lead exposure around small airports

    Maps  /  airports, fuel, lead, Quartz

    Thousands of smaller airplanes are still allowed to use leaded fuel, which can…

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    Gridlines

    The Process  /  grid

    They serve as a point of reference in some charts and guide the eyes in others, coming in different styles and layouts.

  • Cumulative 3-pointers for the Splash Brothers

    Statistical Visualization  /  basketball, Upshot, Warriors

    Tonight is game six of the NBA Finals. If the Golden State Warriors…

  • Communicating risk in the context of daily living

    Statistics  /  context, risk, Wayne Oldford

    Wayne Oldford, a statistics professor at the University of Waterloo, explains risk in…

  • Hands-On Data Visualization, an open-access book on interactive visualization for beginners

    Statistical Visualization  /  book, interaction

    Hands-On Data Visualization, by Jack Dougherty and Ilya Ilyankou, is an open-access book…

  • Unreliable FBI crime data

    Mistaken Data  /  Axios, crime, FBI, Marshall Project

    The Marshall Project and Axios report that the FBI changed their reporting system…

  • Different languages, but similar information rates

    Statistical Visualization  /  information, language, words

    Christophe Coupé and company analyzed speech rate (on the left) across different languages,…

  • Map of closest airports everywhere

    Maps  /  airports

    This fun interactive map by William B. Davis shows you the ten closest…

  • Browser share over time

    Statistical Visualization  /  browser

    James Eagle used an animated donut chart to show browser share from 1996…

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    Using Absolute vs. Relative Scales

    The Process  /  absolute, relative, scale

    The key is assigning an appropriate amount of weight, statistically and visually, for comparisons that make sense.

  • History of heat records in major U.S. cities

    Statistical Visualization  /  climate change, Pudding

    Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding are tracking heat records in…

  • Garbage in space

    Infographics  /  Financial Times, garbage, space

    There are thousands of satellites that orbit Earth, with about half of them…

  • Maps of noise

    Maps  /  Karim Douïeb, noise, pollution

    Karim Douïeb, in collaboration with Possible, mapped noise in Paris, New York, and…

  • Commonness of Divorce in America

    Data Underload  /  divorce, marriage

    I wondered how common it is for someone to get a divorce. While I’ve touched on the topic before, I’ve never calculated it directly, so I gave it a go.

  • Time splits from a visualization freelancer

    Self-surveillance  /  Eli Holder, freelancing, time use, work

    Eli Holder shows how he split his freelance time across various projects and…

  • Cancer and statistics

    Statistics  /  cancer, Hannah Fry, Numberphile, risk

    Hannah Fry works with statistics and risk, but her perspective changed when she…

  • Calculating the new cost of your summer road trip

    Infographics  /  gas, spending, Washington Post

    With gas prices a lot higher than usual, Júlia Ledur, Leslie Shapiro, and…

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    Three Questions to Visualize Data Effectively

    The Process  /  questions

    Answer the questions. Produce more focused and useful charts.

  • Examination of songs after virality on TikTok

    Infographics  /  music, Pudding, TikTok, viral, Vox

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    Vox, in collaboration with The Pudding, looked at what happens…

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