2024

Our World in Data wants you to use their data with improved export and API

Data Sources / API, Our World in Data

Our World in Data is a hub for research and reliable data to…
LLM-driven robot made of garbage

Artificial Intelligence / Chris Fenton, Large Language Model, robot

We like to imagine a world of autonomous robots that take care of…
Foursquare open sources location data

Data Sources / foursquare, location

Foursquare, which I thought was still a location sharing app but is a…
Tree blanket color-coded by local temperature

Data Art / blanket, crochet, physical, temperature

Speaking of data blankets, the knitting club in the area I live has…
Bathymetry blanket crochet

Data Art / bathymetry, crochet, ocean, physical

Jesse Gwinn, from NOAA, was at sea on a mapping expedition and to…
Emoji rain and Bluesky Matrix

Infographics / Bluesky, emoji, firehose, Jared Short

Bluesky firehose fun continues. Jared Short shows emoji usage as rain drops that…
Stream of deleted Bluesky posts

Data Sources / Bluesky, deletion, firehose

To demonstrate how easy and cheap it is to access the Bluesky firehose,…
Tunnel through the live Bluesky firehose

Infographics / Bluesky, firehose, Theo Sanderson

Bluesky has a relatively easy-to-use firehose that lets you dip into the stream…
Mike Tyson Fights Against Age

Data Underload / age, boxing, Mike Tyson

A timeline showing the age difference between Mike Tyson and his opponents, over his career that started in 1985.
Participation in the annual United Nations climate conference

Statistical Visualization / climate change, New York Times, United Nations

For the New York Times, Mira Rojanasakul visualized annual participation in the United…
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Make the Chart: Interactive Line Chart with Ghost Trails

Make the Chart / d3js, JavaScript

Using faded lines to show the overall changes in a time series and to provide a point of reference for the present.
Swooping vote margins

Infographics / election, margin, New York Times

The New York Times used swooping arrows to show vote swings left and…
Margin of victory over past elections, in Minnesota

Network Visualization / election, margin, Minnesota Star Tribune

For the Minnesota Star Tribune, Yuqing Liu and C.J. Sinner show how the…
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Connect the Charts

The Process / connections

This week we look at connecting multiple charts explicitly and implicitly to provide a cohesive narrative or visual metaphor around a dataset.
Employment Rates and Age, More Work and More Years

Data Underload / age, employment, work

We can see the changing scales of who works and for how long through employment rates by age and time.
Evolution of the love song

Statistical Visualization / David Mora, love, Michelle Jia, Pudding, song

For The Pudding, David Mora and Michelle Jia examine the death of the…
See you on Bluesky

Site News

Bluesky, maybe best pitched as a place for those who liked Twitter and…
Dot density map for election results

Maps / Economist, election

With what is now a common mapping method, The Economist used a dot…
Mapping every voter as a grain of sand

Maps / election, metaphor, Washington Post

To show the mix of votes across the country, the Washington Post used…
Days without rain

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, drought, rain

New York City recently issued a drought warning because of an abnormally dry…

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