2024

2024.

Site News / annual review

I haven’t reviewed a year on FlowingData since 2020, which seems like a…
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024

Visualization / best-of

Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024.
Seeing the single largest tree in the forest of 400 billion

Statistics / CTrees, Fabien Wagner, rainforest, tree

Fabien Wagner works with CTrees in an effort to map tree canopy height…
Home insurance companies dropping customers

Maps / climate, insurance, New York Times

Because of a warming planet with more wildfires and hurricanes, it’s growing more…
Year of tornadoes

Maps / New York Times, tornado

For the New York Times, Marco Hernandez visualized all the tornadoes in 2024,…
More time on the plane, but more flights arriving early

Statistics / airlines, schedule, Upshot

By just about every metric, flights are slower now than they were 30…
When cities last saw snow on Christmas

Maps / Bloomberg, Christmas, climate, snow

Christmas is coming. For some, that means snow on the ground, but as…
Data Advent Calendar

Data Art / Advent, embroidery, Jordan Cunliffe

Jordan Cunliffe uses embroidery to explore and visualize data. This year, headed towards…
Counting the Christmas days with snow

Maps / Christmas, snow, Washington Post, weather

This is a fun one by Dylan Moriarty for the Washington Post. Punch…
Map of walkable neighborhoods

Maps / city, local, walking

Researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome estimated the time it takes…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, December 2024 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for the month: things to use, things to poke at, and things to learn from.
Probability does not exist

Statistics / David Spiegelhalter, probability, uncertainty

Probability itself is an expression of uncertainty, but the calculations behind the percentages…
Elon Musk’s posting (and sleep) schedule

Statistical Visualization / Economist, Elon Musk, Twitter

Not to dwell on Musk, but I was reminded of this dot plot…
Online reach of Elon Musk on X

Statistical Visualization / Elon Musk, social media, Washington Post, X

As you can imagine, Elon Musk, the owner of X, has a prominent…
Network of Supermarket Chains

Data Underload / chains, grocery

Here’s the current landscape of supermarket parent companies and their subsidiaries — national chains, regional, local, co-ops, specialty, ethnic, and discount.
Multiplication mistake leads to exaggerated plastic cautions

Mistaken Data / baseline, plastic, research

There was a brouhaha a couple months ago over research that suggested black…
Military location data that anyone can buy legally

Data Sharing / location, military, privacy, Wired

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and…
More milk, fewer cows

Statistical Visualization / cows, milk, Works in Progress

For Works in Progress, Jared Hutchins explains how milk production increased per cow,…
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Exploring Empty Spaces

The Process / missing data

Usually we focus on actual data points for insights, but we can also highlight the spaces between for a flipped point of view.
How mpox virus spreads

Statistical Visualization / mpox, Reuters, virus

For Reuters, Arathy J Aluckal, Jitesh Chowdhury, and Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa illustrate how…

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