It seems like no matter what I do, I cannot sleep through the night. Will it ever let up? According to the data, the answer is no and it will only get worse.
Nathan Yau
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Restless Sleep With Age
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Straying from the Blue-Pink Color Scheme to Represent Gender in Visualization (The Process #55)
The blue and pink color scheme for boys and girls, respectively, used to be the norm. Now, not so much.
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Bird’s-eye view of D3.js
D3.js can do a lot of things, which provides valuable flexibility to construct…
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Useful and not so useful Statistics
Hannah Fry, for The New Yorker, describes the puzzle of Statistics to analyze…
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Gallery of uncertainty visualization methods
It must be uncertainty month and nobody told me. For Scientific American, Jessica…
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What that hurricane map means
For The New York Times, Alberto Cairo and Tala Schlossberg explain the cone…
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Map shows long-term record of fires around the world
For the NASA Earth Observatory, Adam Voiland describes about two decades of fires:…
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Where salaries stretch the farthest
Salaries are higher in big cities, but it also cost to live more…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, August 2019 Roundup (The Process #54)
Every month I collect visualization tools and resources that you can use for or improve your work. Here’s the good stuff for August 2019.
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Optimizing a Pokémon team with simulation
Emily Robinson recently took up Pokémon on Nintendo Switch:
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The Most Gender-Switched Names in US History
We use some names mostly for boys and some mostly for girls, but then there is a small percentage that, over time, switched from one gender to another. Which names made the biggest switch?
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Cartogram of where presidential candidates campaign
Presidential candidates campaign harder in some states more than others. National Popular Vote…
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Where and why the Amazon rainforest is on fire
For Bloomberg, Mira Rojanasakul and Tatiana Freitas discuss why the Amazon rainforest is…
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Detected fires in the Amazon rain forest, monthly
The New York Times goes with monthly small multiples to show detected fires…
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History of slavery in America
USA Today looks at some of the numbers on 17th century slavery in…
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Chart Different, Then Adjust (The Process #53)
Practicality will make its self known whether you want to or not. So, try different visual forms and take it from there.
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How much warmer your city will get
BBC News asks a straightforward question: How much warmer is your city? Enter…
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How to Make a Polar Density Plot in R
With cyclical data, a circular format might be useful. Combine that with a smooth density to reduce noise, and you got yourself a plot.
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People who answer “don’t know” to obvious questions
In survey data, there is usually an open-ended category for “not applicable” or…
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Fantasy football draft rankings, with weekly projections
Football season is starting soon, which means many will participate in the age-old…
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