2024

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” spreads to earlier months

Statistical Visualization / Christmas, Mariah Carey, NBC News, song

For NBC News, Joe Murphy shows the play rate on Last.fm for Mariah…
Where Health Insurance Comes From in the United States

Data Underload / healthcare, insurance

About half of people have private health insurance through an employer. However, the other half get their insurance from elsewhere or through a combination of sources.
Words that do not appear in literature

Statistical Visualization / literature, Martin Wattenberg

Word clouds show key terms or phrases that appear in a body of…
Sitting vs. standing jobs

Infographics / Alvin Chang, Pudding, sitting, standing, work

Some jobs require a lot of standing, crouching, and climbing, whereas other jobs…
Chinese names lost in translation

Network Visualization / Chinese, language, Liuhuaying Yang, names

Liuhuaying Yang aims to clarify the names and sounds that get lost when…
Tsunami alert, because earthquake off coast of Northern California

Maps / alert, earthquake, USGS

The folks up here received one of those loud emergency alerts a few…
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Claude Review: Experimenting with an AI Assistant in the Visualization Workflow

The Process / AI, Claude, generative

I check out Claude, a generative AI assistant to see if, how, and when such a tool could fit into an analysis and visualization workflow.
When internet cables break under the sea

Infographics / Internet, New York Times, repair

The network that connects the world still relies on surprisingly thin wires that…
Your name shaped under a trend line

Data Art / Karim Douïeb, names, text

Add another graphic to the baby name genre of visualization. Karim Douïeb put…
Macy’s lost track of $154m in expenses because of poor metrics

Mistaken Data / Bloomberg, Macy's, money

For Bloomberg, Jeannette Neumann describes the accounting error:
For years, Macy’s Inc. touted…
Higher margins with fewer hospital staff, not the best mix

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, hospital, medicine

Many hospitals in the United States are for-profit, which itself is not a…
China jumps to car exports leader in just a few years

Infographics / China, export, New York Times, vehicles

China exported next to zero vehicles in 2010, but from 2020 to 2024,…
Gifting FlowingData

Site News

Is there a better gift than the gift of knowledge? No, there is…
Material requirements from EV batteries

Statistical Visualization / batteries, cost, electric vehicle, Washington Post

To make batteries for electric vehicles, manufacturers require materials from all over the…
Peak Thanksgiving Food

Data Underload / food, Google Trends, Thanksgiving

One of the highlights of Thanksgiving in the United States is the food, as seen through the lens of Google Trends.
3-D print of John Snow cholera map

Maps / 3-D printing, ‪Alex Selby-Boothroyd, John Snow, physical

You know the John Snow map that highlights a cholera outbreak in London,…
Daily post-it notes as stop motion diary

Self-surveillance / Daren Jannace, post-it

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Daren Jannace animated 30 frames per day for one year…
Movie runtimes framed by life expectancy

Infographics / humor, Michael Condouris, mortality

Memento Movi, a mini-app by Michael Condouris, is what you get when you…
Rainbow Sky, the colors mentioned on Bluesky

Infographics / Bluesky, color, firehose, Martin Wattenberg

Martin Wattenberg drew up a live visualization that shows colors mentioned in Bluesky…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, November 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.

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