Normal retirement age, also known as full retirement age, is 67 years old for those born in 1960 or later. It’s common for people to stop working before this age, but they’re veering older.
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When Americans Stop Working
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Spell your name with satellite imagery
Here’s a fun interactive from NASA Landsat that lets you enter your name…
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Atlas of Design, Volume 7
Every two years, since 2012, the North American Cartographic Information Society publishes Atlas…
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Mapping Course Updates; When the Data Speaks But Doesn’t Have Much to Say
It’s easy to look at data and assume truthiness. Numbers! Facts! Concreteness! A lot of the time that’s just not the case.
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Fingers for scale
This is one small bit in a Reuters piece by Mariano Zafra and…
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Where the Crops Grow
Since weather and land availability vary across the country, so do the crops. This is the cropland geography of the United States.
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Making unrefined vs. refined avocado oil, illustrated
For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor and Aaron Steckelberg show the contrast between…
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AI feedback loop to nowhere
AI models are trained on data, and better data helps make better models.…
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Falling cost of lab-grown diamonds
Natural diamonds require a lot of pressure and time, and then someone has…
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Barren Land
In the conterminous United States, most of the barren land belongs to deserts and mountains in the west.
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Focusing Off Defaults
Default visualization settings are useful when it’s just you analyzing data. However, visual focus is better when it’s time to present.
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Music visualizer in the style of a Pong game
You know the classic game Pong with the paddles and ball that moves…
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Weight of cars and fatalities
The Economist examines car weight and fatalities in car crashes. In two-vehicle collisions,…
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Huetone for accessible color systems
There is no shortage of color-picking tools, but it seems there can never…
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Internationalization of K-Pop
K-pop grew mainstream-popular in countries outside South Korea over the past few years.…
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Basketball globe
Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, combined two joys — basketball and…
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Map of job gains and losses
To show the counties with more or fewer jobs when comparing 2023 to…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, August 2024 Roundup
Every month I collect tools and resources to help you make better charts. This is the good stuff for August 2024.
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Visualizing poverty levels with a plant metaphor
To show poverty in the Pacific Region between age groups, gender, and location,…
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Renting vs. Owning a Home as We Get Older
One-third of households are rented and the other two-thirds are owned or in the process. However, the difference between renting and owning changes with age.
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