Baseball’s batting lineup has changed from what seemed to make sense to what…
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Reordered baseball lineup over decades
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Rainfall in the path of Hurricane Helene
Western North Carolina got the brunt of Hurricane Helene with two feet of…
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Counting mullets in the AFL
The mullet has grown popular in the Australian Football League. ABC News counted…
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Trash balloons released by North Korea landing in South Korea
North Korea has been releasing thousands of trash bags into the air with…
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Hurricane categories, visually explained
As Hurricane Helene approached Florida, it grew from a tropical storm to a…
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – September 2024 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for September 2024.
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Statistical challenges of measuring immigration
Jed Kolko, the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs of the…
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Q&A with Amstat News
Fourteen years ago, I did a short Q&A with Amstat News, where apparently…
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Election game to win the White House against other readers
For Financial Times, Sam Learner, Oliver Roeder, and Irene de la Torre Arenas…
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Energy used to generate an email with AI
For The Washington Post, Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan illustrate the scale of…
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Environmental cost of food
The New York Times highlights the work of True Price Foundation, a group…
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How to Map with Contour Lines and GeoTIFF in R
GeoTIFF data can provide high granularity but make it hard to see patterns when data is sparse. Contour lines provide an aggregated view that makes patterns easier to see.
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Grocery owner territories
Any day is a good day for a map of predominant commercial chains.…
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Immigration in Democrat counties
For Bloomberg, Elena Mejía and Shawn Donnan use a transitioning cartogram to show…
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Rowboat for fast CSV exploration
Fathom Information Design, known for client visualization-centric projects, introduced Rowboat. It’s a tool…
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Political leanings of first and last names
For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam and Lenny Bronner analyzed names and…
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Satellite imagery of all the outdoor basketball courts
For The Pudding, Matthew Daniels extracted all the outdoor basketball courts in the…
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Refreshing Map Tutorials; Design Trade-Offs and Making the Wrong Choice
Visualization always involves trade-offs between audience, insights, and resources. Sometimes you make the wrong choice.
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Retirement Ages by Country
China recently increased their retirement age to 63 for men and 55 for women. Even with the adjustment, the country is still on the lower end when compared to other countries.
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Improving axes on a chart
Nicola Rennie provides five quick tips to improve on default axis scales:
[T]he…