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    For The Pudding, Rebecca Monteleone and Jamie Brew (with design and code by…

  • Trendiest Baby Name Every Year Since 1930, in the U.S.

    Data Underload  /  names

    Baby names gain sudden popularity for various reasons. See how it’s changed over the years.

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    Very Unprofessional – The Process 177

    The Process  /  professional

    Sometimes being unprofessional works to your advantage when communicating data.

  • Map of Russian gas exports

    Maps  /  gas, New York Times, Russia

    Speaking of Russian gas, Josh Holder, Karl Russell and Stanley Reed for The…

  • Russian gas supplies in Europe

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    For Reuters, Prasanta Kumar Dutta, Samuel Granados and Michael Ovaska detail Europe’s dependence…

  • Interactive traffic simulator

    Infographics  /  Martin Treiber, simulation, traffic

    Traffic always seems so sensitive to the smallest disruptions. Someone pulls over to…

  • Snowboarding composite photos

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    If you watched the men’s halfpipe in the Olympics, you were probably impressed…

  • Weighted Olympic medal counts

    Statistical Visualization  /  Josh Katz, medal, Olympics, ranking, Upshot

    To decide who’s doing best at the Olympics you have to define what…

  • Premier League territory control

    Statistical Visualization  /  Athletic, Premier League, soccer

    The Athletic charted territories on the field to show whether the team of…

  • Age of Moms When Kids are Born

    Data Underload  /  age, birth, motherhood

    It’s a wide range, based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics.

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    Good Redundant

    The Process  /  encoding, redundancy

    Think of the redundancies as reinforcement for a clearer signal.

  • Modernized version of a mid-19th century encylopedia

    Infographics  /  encyclopedia, J. G. Heck, Nicholas Rougeux, restoration

    Between 1849 and 1851, J.G. Heck published a 10-part encyclopedia called Iconographic Encyclopædia…

  • Past redlining still seen in the present

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    In the 1930s, a group called the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation went to…

  • Frequency trails in the snow

    Miscellaneous  /  humor, snow

    Same vibes pic.twitter.com/oXjhdwS3yW
    — Matt Blackwell (@matt_blackwell) February 7, 2022

    This is a…

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    How to Make a Line Chart with a Color Gradient in R

    Tutorials  /  R

    Use color to reinforce or add another layer of meaning to a regular line chart.

  • Figure skating animated jumps

    Infographics  /  Nathan Chen, New York Times, Olympics, sports

    Figure skater Nathan Chen set a world record with his performance in the…

  • Improving electric vehicle adoption rates

    Infographics  /  electric vehicle, Reuters

    Gas-powered vehicles contribute a big part of total carbon production, so to get…

  • Bubble tea combinations, a visual breakdown

    Network Visualization  /  boba, combinations, Daisy Chung, Julia Janicki

    Walk into a boba shop and usually you’ll see a large menu that…

  • Accuracy of groundhog weather prediction

    Statistical Visualization  /  FiveThirtyEight, Groundhog Day, prediction

    For FiveThirtyEight, Simran Parwani and Kaleigh Rogers compared Groundhog Day predictions against actual…

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    Editing Carefully and That White House Bar Chart with the Weird y-axis – The Process 175

    The Process  /  editing, error

    The White House posted a chart with a messed up y-axis. Intentional or no?

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