2024

Presidential campaign target states, since 1952

Maps / campaign, election, Washington Post

We mostly hear about a handful of swing states these days, as presidential…
Presidential election still a toss-up

Statistics / election, Nate Silver, probability, uncertainty

You’re probably going to see election forecasts more this month, and one candidate…
Election of random chance

Statistics / election, gambling, New Yorker, random, uncertainty

For The New Yorker, Jay Caspian Kang relates the election’s unwavering randomness to…
Who gets shipped in fan fiction

Infographics / fiction, Pudding, relationships, shipped

The Pudding examines who gets shipped, which means a pairing of characters in…
Restaurant preferences via campaign spending

Statistical Visualization / election, restaurant, spending, Washington Post

For WP’s Department of Data, Kati Perry and Adrián Blanco examine campaign spending…
Uber and Lyft use lockout loophole to avoid paying drivers

Infographics / Bloomberg, Lyft, minimum wage, Uber

Based on rideshare data collected by Bloomberg, it appears that Uber and Lyft…
Three flavors of luck

Statistics / David Spiegelhalter, luck, randomness

For The Guardian, statistician David Spiegelhalter describes three kinds of luck:

Circumstantial luck…
Hurricane Watch

The Process / hurricane, possibilities, uncertainty

Given the topic and situation in Florida, I’m making this issue public. Hurricane Milton is en route.
Seen from space: Hurricane Milton approaches

Maps / hurricane, NOAA, satellite imagery

NOAA has a viewer for their GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) system, which…
Hurricane Milton potential threats

Maps / Bloomberg, flood, hurricane, uncertainty

Hurricane Milton continues towards Florida, estimated to make landfall on October 9, 2024…
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Short version: Members make FlowingData possible, and it’s a lot easier to support…
Preparing for a hurricane, a visual guide

Infographics / emergency, hurricane, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, N. Kirkpatrick, Aaron Steckelberg, and Leslie Shapiro provide a…
Rise in drug overdose deaths, led by fentanyl

Statistical Visualization / drugs, fentanyl, mortality, New York Times, overdose

Deaths by drug overdose in the United States increased sharply over the past…
Political search interest in 2024

Statistical Visualization / election, Google Trends, Moritz Stefaner

In a follow-up to the 2020 project, Moritz Stefaner and Google Trends show…
Smuggling fentanyl precursors, illustrated

Infographics / drugs, fentanyl, Reuters

In their ongoing series on fentanyl in the United States, Reuters illustrates the…
Helene power outages mapped

Maps / Atlas Guo, hurricane, outage, power

Chenxiao Guo, a PhD candidate in geography who goes by the name Atlas,…
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Communicating Probability and Odds to People

The Process / forecast, Nate Silver, odds, probability

As election day in the United States draws closer, the probabilities, odds, and forecasts are in full swing, which gives us a chance to check the ways in which we currently communicate the fuzzy numbers.
Maps showing migration out of cities

Maps / cities, climate, migration, New York Times

Mira Rojanasakul and Nadja Popovich, for The New York Times, mapped migration out…
Jobs of a Certain Age

Data Underload / age, work

There are hundreds of occupations, and while the exact number varies by classification system, most U.S. government organizations list about 500 of them. These are the standouts.
Jimmy Carter’s longevity compared to other U.S. presidents

Statistical Visualization / age, Jimmy Carter, president, Washington Post

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, turned 100 years old.…

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