USA Today looks at some of the numbers on 17th century slavery in…
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History of slavery in America
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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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Democratic candidates who Iowa fairgoers could name
In a “radically unscientific survey” Kevin Uhrmacher and Kevin Schaul for The Washington…
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Measuring pop music’s falsetto usage
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Annotate Charts to Help Your Data Speak, Because the Data Has No Idea What It Is Doing (The Process #52)
This week, we talk annotation and how it can make your charts more readable and easier to understand.
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Predicting whether you are Democrat or Republican
The New York Times is in a quizzy mood lately. Must be all…
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Everyday charts book
Add a book to the humorous-charts-documenting-the-everyday genre. Am I Overthinking This? by Michelle…
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Least Preferred Sandwich
Which sandwich do people not like the most? The winner: the Cheese and Tomato, if that even counts as an actual sandwich.
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Warped shape of the galaxy
Dorota M. Skowron et al. made the first 3-D map of the galaxy.…
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Why you shouldn’t use ZIP Codes for spatial analysis
For Carto, Matt Forrest explains why you shouldn’t use ZIP codes for spatial…
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How an earthquake can trigger others on the opposite side of the world
Speaking of earthquakes, Will Chase looked back at a 2012 earthquake in Sumatra…
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Earthquake trigger
For The New York Times, Derek Watkins used animated maps to show how…
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Who Inspired Visualization Practitioners to Become Visualization Practitioners (The Process #51)
For everyone who does data visualization for a living right now, there was someone who came before.
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Imaging Earth on the daily
Over the past four years, Planet deployed 293 satellites in low orbit to…
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Light from the center of the galaxy
This animated interactive explains how a research group is using light to measure…
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Best Burger Ranks
Survey participants were asked to grade fast food burger restaurants on eight criteria. This is how each restaurant ranked.