The name Karen. It’s not a common baby name these days. It peaked…
Nathan Yau
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Karen equivalents, based on name data
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Making a map table using IKEA furniture
All you need is an old table, gift wrapping paper, and some varnish.…
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Unemployment Rate Changes
In April 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated a national unemployment rate of 14.7%. It wasn’t just the rate itself but how fast it spiked.
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Data visualization wallpaper
As a 100-day project, Alli Torban has been imagining what a data visualization…
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Meandering procedural river maps
Robert Hodgin built a procedural system he calls Meander to generate the beauty…
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Adjust Your Baseline for Better Comparisons (The Process 093)
The right baseline provides a way to compare everything else in a useful way. The wrong baseline makes the rest of the data useless.
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2020 election forecast
The Economist launched their 2020 elections forecast. Right now a part of my…
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Vaccine tracker
As we know, it typically takes years to develop a vaccine that is…
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Why the “flatten the curve” chart worked
I know it seems like ages ago when we were talking about flattening…
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Challenges of reopening the meatpacking plant
To reopen safely, meatpacking plants have to take precautions to provide space and…
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Police Perception vs. Public Perception
The numbers are from a survey by the Pew Research Center conducted in…
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Health conditions and income
A large proportion of those who died from Covid-19 had pre-existing medical conditions.…
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Pen plotter used as storytelling device
Pen plotters slowly draw out a picture line-by-line, so when you watch a…
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Visualizing black America in 1900
The visualization work of W.E.B. Du Bois and his students has been on…
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Seeing the Dust (The Process 092)
Keep your eyes open.
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Protecting your mobile data and privacy while at a protest
Maddy Varner reporting for The Markup:
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Failed CDC data pipeline
The New York Times reports on how the CDC struggled and failed on…
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A comic on spotting misinformation
There’s a lot of misinformation passing through the internets right now. A lot.…
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Racial Divide
It’s hard to think of much else. These maps show the racial divide between black and white people in major cities.
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Guides for Visualizing Reality
We like to complain about how data is messy, not in the right format, and how parts don’t make sense. Reality is complicated though.
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Second Edition
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
New tools, refined process.
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