FiveThirtyEight uses forecasts to attach probabilities to politics and sports, and they get…
Nathan Yau
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FiveThirtyEight evaluates their forecasts
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Finding context for the data
Context makes data useful. Without it, it’s easy to get lost in numbers…
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Brexit voting divisions
The Economist charted the divisions within political parties using Brexit votes as proxy.…
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Census data downloader to reformat for humans
There is a lot of Census data. You can grab most of the…
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Where the IRS most likely audits
Using estimates from a study on regional bias in tax audits, ProPublica mapped…
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Data comic shows an average American day
Matt Hong used a stacked bar chart over time as the frame for…
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A long distance relationship between a temperature difference
Everyone’s story is a little different. Alyssa Fowers tracked her long-distance relationship in…
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Texting history after the first swipe
Speaking of relationship timelines, Chris Lewis used texting history with his girlfriend after…
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Remaking charts from The Economist, by a journalist at The Economist
Sarah Leo, a visual journalist at The Economist, looked through the archives and…
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – March 2019 Roundup (The Process #34)
Every month I collect practical resources, new tools, code, and datasets. Here’s the good stuff for March.
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Mapping the cheapest flights to everywhere, given your location
Sometimes you really do need to get away. Escape, part search engine and…
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Happiness and Health
When one goes down, so does the other. If only there were a way to keep more people healthy.
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How to Make a Bump Chart in R
Visualize rankings over time instead of absolute values to focus on order instead of the magnitude of change.
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The Stages of Relationships, Distributed
Everyone’s relationship timeline is a little different. This animation plays out real-life paths to marriage.
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Data for 200M traffic stop records
The Stanford Open Policing Project just released a dataset for police traffic stops…
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Tax changes for different groups
There’s less than a month until taxes are due. It’s the most wonderful…
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A Familiar Chart with a Twist (The Process #33)
There’s a new hotness in chart town. It’s a bar chart. But it moves to show rankings over time.
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Robocalls map
Other than calls from my wife, I can’t even remember the last call…
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How to spot a partisan gerrymander
For FiveThirtyEight, William T. Adler and Ella Koeze describe how a metric called…
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The Relationship Timeline Continues to Stretch
We know that people are marrying later in life, but that’s not the only shift. The whole relationship timeline is stretching.
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