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Pizza Exchange Rate

Data Underload / area, geometry, pizza

This is a story about pizza, geometry, and making sure you get what you paid for.
Florence Nightingale’s use of data visualization to persuade in the 19th century

Statistical Visualization / history, Nightingale, RJ Andrews, Scientific American

For Scientific American, RJ Andrews looks back at the visualization work of Florence…
A plea to stop climate change from the guy who makes maps

Maps / climate, color, humor, Washington Post

For Washington Post Opinion, a struggling mapmaker makes a plea to stop climate…
Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation

Statistical Visualization / Delaunay, explainer, Ian Henry

Delaunay triangulations have applications in computer graphics, spatial analysis, and visualization. They “maximize…
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Ambiguous Units of Measurement

The Process / annotation, units

It’s better to err on the side of obvious than leave things ambiguous.
Timelines for record temperatures

Statistical Visualization / climate, heat, Le Monde, temperature

Speaking of the heat wave in Europe, Pierre Breteau for Le Monde charted…
Melting popsicles to visualize a heat wave

Infographics / climate, heat, popsicles, Washington Post

Many European countries are experience record high temperatures, so The Washington Post used…
Database of feathers

Data Sources / birds, feather

There’s a database of feathers called Featherbase, because of course there is:
Featherbase…
Rhythm in plant cells

Statistical Visualization / plants, rhythm

Researchers are studying the electrical rhythms in plant cells. I’m not sure what…
Country-wide housing shortage

Maps / housing, Upshot

Emily Badger and Eve Washington for NYT’s The Upshot show how the housing…
Period trackers and legal implications

Data Sharing / period, privacy

Given the current restrictions in the U.S., Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma…
Full scope of gun deaths in the U.S.

Statistical Visualization / guns, law, mortality, Washington Post

As I’m sure you know, mass shootings, which gain attention because the scale…
Empty school buses as a representation of student lives lost

Data Art / bus, guns, students

The NRA Children’s Museum from Change the Ref is a mile-long convoy of…
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Develop Your Judgement

The Process / judgement, practice

While some parts of visualization are formulaic, outside variables require that you adjust.
Data Visualization Humble Bundle

Statistical Visualization / books, Bundle

There’s a data visualization book bundle on Humble Bundle this month. Get twenty-two…
Why the galaxy pictures from the Webb telescope are pretty cool

Infographics / NASA, Sergio Peçanha, telescope, Washington Post

The first public picture from the James Webb telescope is kind of cool…
Income ladder for the children of immigrants

Infographics / immigration, income, New York Times

You’ve probably seen the moving bubbles that show how something changes over time.…
A lot of galaxies

Visualization / galaxies, NASA, telescope

NASA released an image from the Webb First Deep Field telescope, which shows…
Where there is more livestock than people in the United States

Maps / Erin Davis, livestock, population, USDA

The United States Department of Agriculture provides annual inventory data on livestock, crops,…
Money distribution for streaming music

Infographics / money, music, Pudding, streaming

From the listener perspective, we pay our monthly or annual fees and just…

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