For ProPublica, William Turton, Christopher Bing, and Avi Asher-Schapiro report on a blueprint…
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IRS building a system to share private data with ICE
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Gender of animal characters in children’s books
Read enough children’s books with anthropomorphic animals and you might notice that some…
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Misidentified by facial recognition and arrested
In Jacksonville, Florida, police arrested a man because AI facial recognition classified his…
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Falling below herd immunity
Vaccination rates are still relatively high, but they need to be for herd…
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What happened at Camp Mystic
The Washington Post reconstructed the flooding at Camp Mystic, from the perspectives of…
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FEMA flood risk vs. more comprehensive estimates for Camp Mystic
Risk estimates change by statistical model and what that model accounts for. The…
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On immigration, more Americans say it’s a good thing
In a Gallup poll run last month, sentiment towards immigration spiked towards positive,…
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Illustrated guide to card counting and investing
The internet continues to feed my compulsion to click on anything that mentions…
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Nominee to lead NOAA prioritizes hiring people
Eric Katz reporting for Government Executive:
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DOGE goes for farmers’ financial and personal data
For NPR, Jenna McLaughlin breaks down DOGE access to sensitive USDA data and…
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Map of flood-risk area at Camp Mystic
The New York Times mapped an overhead view of Camp Mystic with flood-risk…
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Switching axis positions
Paying attention to the visualization minutiae adds up. This week: axis positions.
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Second brain deleted
Joan Westenberg had been writing notes and storing bits for seven years in…
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Quarter of the world’s ocean floor has been mapped, so far
The Seabed 2030 Project aims to create a complete map of the world’s…
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Marital Status Shifts in the United States
People stay single longer, marry later, divorce less, and widow older.
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Studying the why behind the everyday, like coffee stains
Quanta Magazine interviewed physicist Sidney Nagel, who is known for his research in…
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Map of alerts from the National Weather Service
We are seeing in real-time why the National Weather Service, a part of…
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Backyard bird sounds
Alex Tomlinson illustrated backyard sounds of a cardinal, goldfinch, blue jay, mourning dove,…
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Fireworks-related emergency department visits
You might be surprised that the combination of beer and fireworks doesn’t always work out.
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FlowingData enters adulthood at 18
Last week marked 18 years of FlowingData.
That seems like a long time,…