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    Data Sharing  /  government, privacy, Washington Post

    Drew Harwell, for The Washington Post, reporting on a growing database and who…

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    Infographics  /  mexico, Pudding, sound

    Aaron Reiss and Oscar Molina Palestina, for The Pudding, explore the sounds of…

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    Annie Fu, Walt Hickey, and Shayanne Gal, for Insider, show the disproportionately aging…

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    With the growth in online shopping over the years, companies required more space…

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    Sarah Slobin and Joanna Plucinska, for Reuters, report on the challenges of counting…

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    Serena Wiliams’ tennis career is impressive for its success and longevity, which are…

  • Choosing fonts for your charts

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    Changing the fonts you use for labels and annotation is one of the…

  • Estimating the condition of the economy

    Statistical Visualization  /  economy, New York Times

    Measuring the condition of the economy is tricky, because there are many parts…

  • Animated charts to show sports results

    Infographics  /  animation, Krisztina Szűcs, sports

    Krisztina Szűcs likes to make animated charts to show sports results, from fencing,…

  • Open cameras and AI to locate Instagram photos

    Data Sharing  /  AI, Dries Depoorter, Instagram, privacy, surveillance

    Dries Depoorter recorded video from open cameras for a week and scraped Instagram…

  • Emissions from fires in the Arctic

    Maps  /  Arctic, carbon, Reuters, wildfire

    Reuters reported on the fires in the Arctic and the relatively high levels…

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    It’s nice that visualization has developed over the years to the point that there are dedicated classes for it, but I also like learning informally.

  • Images behind the generated images from Stable Diffusion

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    People have been having fun with the text-to-image generators lately. Enter a description,…

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    Infographics  /  New York Times, tennis, toss

    To serve the ball in tennis, a player first tosses the ball in…

  • Gerrymandering detection with simulations

    Infographics  /  gerrymandering, simulation, Washington Post

    Harry Stevens, for The Washington Post, how simulations can be used to detect…

  • Where memes from the past decade came from

    Statistical Visualization  /  Know Your Meme, meme

    Know Your Meme analyzed a decade of meme data to see where the…

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    Time for less work and more play.

  • Where We Find Meaning in the Everyday

    Data Underload  /  meaning, time use, well-being

    Meaningfulness scores from the American Time Use Survey provide a hint of what we value.

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