Victoria Rose Richards uses embroidery to depict aerial views and landscapes. The above…
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Embroidered landscapes
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Illustrated guides to Olympic sports
Reuters, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, has visual guides to all of the…
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Olympic data journalism
Speaking of the Olympics, Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers talked about the warm-blooded…
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How Olympic athletes combat the heat
A part of outdoor sports is that you must deal with the weather,…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, July 2024 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for July.
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Clean energy from fracking
We usually hear about fracking in a negative context, but for the Washington…
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Gunman and countersnipers’ points of view during shooting
The New York Times collected drone footage and built a 3-D model to…
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When Working Gets Harder With Age
Difficulties increase steadily over the years, but if we’re lucky enough to reach our 80s, there appears to be a steeper drop.
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Cryptocurrency-funded politics
Those who run cryptocurrency companies have much to gain from policies that favor…
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Nate Silver critiques the new 538 forecast model
Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…
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Overlap between area codes HTTP response headers
Like many, you’ve probably wondered what HTTP response headers are also area codes…
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Sliding for Data
The slider, a common UI element with a range and a handle that you can drag, has been around for a long time. It’s proven to be useful for visualization.
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Where immigrants in the U.S. came from
A lot of immigration talk in the U.S. focuses on Mexico, but immigrants…
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Federal data at risk
It continues to grow more difficult for federal statistical agencies to accurately measure…
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Shifts in post-apocalyptic worlds in science fiction films
Using science fiction films as a proxy for what we see in our…
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How to Use a Slider to Let Readers Customize Charts
A simple user-controlled slider can help readers look at a dataset from their own point of view.
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Changing Difficulty of Getting Into Your College, Past Two Decades
It’s gotten more difficult to get into top colleges over the years, but most schools have either admitted students at the same rate or increased admission rates since 2001.
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Famine prevalence in different countries
Reuters explores famine around the world through the lens of starving children in…
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Genealogy of technology and power from the 1500s to present
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler created a comprehensive view in Calculating Empires.
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Splitting the Map
To make space for your map on a small screen, maybe just cut the map in half.