Visualize rankings over time instead of absolute values to focus on order instead of the magnitude of change.
Nathan Yau
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How to Make a Bump Chart in R
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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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Colors of Tintin
Marian Eerens charted the colors of each Adventures of Tintin book cover. The…
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A game to test your ability to pick random numbers
Compared to a computer’s pseudo-random number generator, we are not good at picking…
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Shifts in How Couples Meet, Online Takes the Top
How do couples meet now and how has it changed over the years? Watch the rankings play out over six decades.
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Case of the 500-mile email
Trey Harris, a previous tech administrator for a university, tells the story of…
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Forcing You to See the Data
John Tukey wrote, “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” Not everyone wants to see though.
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FastCharts to make charts fast
FastCharts is the public version of the Financial Times’ in-house solution for making…
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How People Meet Their Partners
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Internet under the sea
To connect servers around the world, there are actual cables that run under…
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TwoTone is a tool to sonify your data
TwoTone, by Datavized and supported by the Google News Initiative, is a straightforward…
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Inverse map of the United States
I’m thoroughly enjoying the work coming from graphic designer Scott Reinhard as of…
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Connections and patterns in the Mueller investigation
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High school basketball players who make it to the NBA
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