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  • Global ripple effect from underwater volcano

    Maps  /  Tonga, volcano

    An underwater volcano erupted about 40 miles off the coast of the main…

  • A visual and audio tour of sound at Nap Nap Swamp

    Statistical Visualization  /  Mitchell Whitelaw, Nap Nap Swamp, nature, Skye Wassens, sound, water

    When I think swamp noise, I imagine a blob of sound that’s some…

  • Congressmen who enslaved people

    Statistical Visualization  /  government, slavery, Washington Post

    Using old Census records and documents, Julie Zauzmer Weil, Adrian Blanco and Leo…

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    Debating About Visualization – The Process 172

    The Process  /  audience, critique, debate

    The discussions this week felt familiar. Probably because we’ve seen this many times, since the beginning of charts themselves.

  • New shopping search patterns from the pandemic

    Statistical Visualization  /  Google, search, shopping

    Schema Design, Google Trends, and Axios collaborated on The New Normal, looking at…

  • All-time temperature records broken in 2021

    Maps  /  climate change, New York Times, temperature

    Using data from NOAA, Krishna Karra and Tim Wallace for The New York…

  • Settling all the internet debates in one go with a bunch of polling

    Statistical Visualization  /  debate, Internet, Neal Agarwal

    The internet was once this fun place where people had goofy debates about…

  • Play miniature golf, learn about congressional redistricting

    Infographics  /  game, gerrymandering, golf, redistricting, Washington Post

    Congressional redistricting and gerrymandering are important topics, because they can directly change election…

  • Scale of the bigger, more detailed universe

    Infographics  /  BBC, scale, space

    We’ve learned more about the universe since Charles and Ray Eames produced Powers…

  • Powers of Ten

    Infographics  /  Eames, scale, video

    The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames from 1977 shows the…

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    A Quick and Easy Way to Make Spiral Charts in R

    Tutorials  /  R

    Now that we’ve discovered another way to annoy chart snobs, here’s how you can make your own spirals.

  • Spiral graph to show Covid-19 cases

    Infographics  /  coronavirus, New York Times

    This spiralized chart by Gus Wezerek and Sara Chodosh for NYT Opinion has…

  • Four decades of oceanic wave moments, as a surfing game

    Infographics  /  Andy Bergmann, NOAA

    Surf is a data-based game by Andy Bergmann that lets you move across…

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    Finding New Visualization Tools for a New Point of View – The Process 171

    The Process  /  perspective, tools

    It’s time to bask in the joys of knowing nothing again.

  • Scale of black holes

    Infographics  /  black hole, Kurzgesagt, scale, space

    I’m not sure there’s any way to really understand the scale of the…

  • Drop rain anywhere in the world and see where it ends up

    Maps  /  rain, river, Sam Learner, water

    One of my favorites of the year, Sam Learner’s River Runner shows you…

  • Analysis of Facebook groups before January 6

    Statistics  /  facebook, insurrection, machine learning, ProPublica, Washington Post

    The Washington Post and ProPublica analyzed Facebook group posts that disputed election results:…

  • What the omicron numbers tell us and do not tell us

    Statistics  /  coronavirus, NPR, omicron

    May Louise Kelly for NPR spoke briefly with biostatistics professor Natalie Dean on…

  • False positives with prenatal tests for rare conditions

    Statistical Visualization  /  prenatal, testing, uncertainty, Upshot

    Sarah Kliff and Aatish Bhatia for NYT’s The Upshot look at the uncertainty…

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