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2024
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When Your Vision and Hearing Decline with Age
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Misleading or Not? A Chart About How Couples Meet
If a chart is seen by enough people, someone will call it misleading. There are no exceptions.
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Happiness ratings, by country and age
The World Happiness Report, published each year since 2012, just dropped for 2024.…
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Birding and data visualization
Jer Thorp has combined birding and data visualization into a unique course called…
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National identity stereotypes through generative AI
For Rest of World, Victoria Turk breaks down bias in generative AI in…
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Flipbook Experiment, like the Telephone game but visual
This looks fun. The Pudding is running an experiment that functions like a…
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Visual guide to airfoils
Bartosz Ciechanowski is at it again with an in-depth explainer that makes heavy…
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Mile-by-mile map along the path of totality
On April 8, 2024, the moon is going to completely block the sun…
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Language-based AI to chat with her dead husband
For the past few years, Laurie Anderson has been using an AI chatbot…
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One Chart to Multiple Charts
Every chart type has its trade-offs. So instead of trying to show everything at once, use multiple views to show things separate.
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Maps in the wild
For the New York Times, Eve Kahn describes the use of maps outside…
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Common Age Differences, Married Couples
How common are wide age gaps between spouses? These are the age differences through the lens of the 2022 five-year American Community Survey.
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Racial bias in OpenAI GPT resume rankings
AI is finding its way into the HR workflow to sift through resumes.…
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Diversity in college admissions without considering race
For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia and Emily Badger model how colleges might…
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Defining the greatest albums of all time
Rolling Stone published a list in 2003 that ranked the 500 greatest albums…
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Mapping the crops with the most potential in a changing climate
The climate is changing, which means some crops will fair better or worse…
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Baseline Point of View
The point of visualization is to understand what data is about, which is rarely just about the numbers and almost always about what the data represents.
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Analysis of when movies use their own names in the dialogue
A title drop is when a movie mentions its own name during the…
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Why Line Chart Baselines Can Start at Non-Zero
There is a recurring argument that line chart baselines must start at zero, because anything else would be misleading. The critique is misguided.
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Tiny chip manufacturing, visually explained
Microchips have gotten tiny. Like smaller than a red blood cell tiny. Financial…