This is a story about pizza, geometry, and making sure you get what you paid for.
2022
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Pizza Exchange Rate
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Florence Nightingale’s use of data visualization to persuade in the 19th century
For Scientific American, RJ Andrews looks back at the visualization work of Florence…
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A plea to stop climate change from the guy who makes maps
For Washington Post Opinion, a struggling mapmaker makes a plea to stop climate…
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Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation
Delaunay triangulations have applications in computer graphics, spatial analysis, and visualization. They “maximize…
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Ambiguous Units of Measurement
It’s better to err on the side of obvious than leave things ambiguous.
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Timelines for record temperatures
Speaking of the heat wave in Europe, Pierre Breteau for Le Monde charted…
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Melting popsicles to visualize a heat wave
Many European countries are experience record high temperatures, so The Washington Post used…
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Database of feathers
There’s a database of feathers called Featherbase, because of course there is:
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Rhythm in plant cells
Researchers are studying the electrical rhythms in plant cells. I’m not sure what…
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Country-wide housing shortage
Emily Badger and Eve Washington for NYT’s The Upshot show how the housing…
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Period trackers and legal implications
Given the current restrictions in the U.S., Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma…
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Full scope of gun deaths in the U.S.
As I’m sure you know, mass shootings, which gain attention because the scale…
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Empty school buses as a representation of student lives lost
The NRA Children’s Museum from Change the Ref is a mile-long convoy of…
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Develop Your Judgement
While some parts of visualization are formulaic, outside variables require that you adjust.
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Data Visualization Humble Bundle
There’s a data visualization book bundle on Humble Bundle this month. Get twenty-two…
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Why the galaxy pictures from the Webb telescope are pretty cool
The first public picture from the James Webb telescope is kind of cool…
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Income ladder for the children of immigrants
You’ve probably seen the moving bubbles that show how something changes over time.…
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A lot of galaxies
NASA released an image from the Webb First Deep Field telescope, which shows…
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Where there is more livestock than people in the United States
The United States Department of Agriculture provides annual inventory data on livestock, crops,…
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Money distribution for streaming music
From the listener perspective, we pay our monthly or annual fees and just…