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  • Days since record-high temperatures

    Maps  /  climate, Pudding, temperature

    Here’s a fun/alarming weather map from The Pudding. Using data from the Applied…

  • Total refugees from Ukraine, compared to other countries

    Statistical Visualization  /  New York Times, refugees, scale, Ukraine, war

    Millions of Ukrainians (over three million as of this writing) have left their…

  • Who Takes Care of the Kids, By Household Income

    Data Underload  /  childcare

    Higher income usually means more childcare, and lower income usually means less.

  • Imports to Russia from countries that imposed sanctions and not

    Statistical Visualization  /  imports, Russia, sanctions, Washington Post

    For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam, Youjin Shin and Alyssa Fowers plotted…

  • US spending on Ukraine

    Statistical Visualization  /  spending, Ukraine, Upshot, war

    For NYT’s The Upshot, Bianca Pallaro and Alicia Parlapiano break down the United…

  • Sunrise times with permanent Day Light Saving

    Maps  /  daylight saving, sunrise, Washington Post

    Changing the clocks twice a year can be a hassle, so some people…

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    For Your Own Approval – The Process 181

    The Process  /  learning, rules

    Eventually you gotta make the charts for yourself and not for some expert’s approval.

  • Abortion restrictions in the U.S. mapped

    Maps  /  abortion, FiveThirtyEight

    For FiveThirtyEight, Anna Wiederkehr and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, with illustrations by Nicole Rifkin, delve…

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    How to Make Cartograms in R

    Tutorials  /  R

    While the reshaped geography doesn’t work all the time, the use of size to show data can be more intuitive in some cases.

  • Your place in the world population

    Statistical Visualization  /  age, population, World Data Lab

    Population.io by World Data Lab asks your birthday, country of residence, and gender.…

  • NameGrapher to explore past baby name trends

    Statistical Visualization  /  baby names, Laura Wattenberg, Martin Wattenberg

    NameGrapher is an interactive chart that lets you explore historical trends for baby…

  • Increasing mortality baseline

    Statistics  /  Atlantic, baseline, coronavirus, mortality

    There was a time not that long ago when a hundred covid deaths…

  • Percentage breakdowns of pandemic life

    Infographics  /  coronavirus, pandemic, Washington Post

    To broadly show how people have lived in the U.S. during these past…

  • Wordle analysis through the lens of 15m tweets

    Statistical Visualization  /  Robert Lesser, Twitter, Wordle

    I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, but there’s this game called…

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    Stepping Towards a Finished Chart – The Process 180

    The Process  /  exploration

    Thinking about the tiny steps along the way to making a chart, even a relatively straightforward one.

  • Price increases people have noticed

    Infographics  /  inflation, money, Upshot

    Inflation is high. For NYT’s The Upshot, Emily Badger, Aatish Bhatia and Quoctrung…

  • World Bank’s Gender Data Portal

    Data Sources  /  gender, World Bank

    In an effort to make gender inequalities more obvious, World Bank updated their…

  • Oldest, Youngest, and Middle Children, in Differently Sized U.S. Households

    Data Underload  /  family, kids

    I looked at the percentages of people with a given number of kids in the family and the order they were born.

  • Scale of Ukrainian cities

    Maps  /  satellite imagery, scale, Ukraine, Washington Post

    When you look inside the cities around the world, you will often find…

  • Reducing the risk of nuclear war

    Statistical Visualization  /  nuclear, Our World in Data, risk, war

    For Our World in Data, Max Roser discusses the risk and possible destruction…

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