James Holzhauer is on a record-breaking Jeopardy! win streak. It’s not so much…
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Jeopardy! winners making chart jokes
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Visualization Tools and Resources, May 2019 Roundup (The Process #42)
Every month I collect links to visualization tools and resources. Here’s the good stuff for May 2019.
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Charts as a medium for expression
Christine Sun Kim, a deaf artist known for her work visualizing and creating…
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Why some Asian accents swap Ls and Rs
Vox delves into why Ls and Rs often get replaced by Asian speakers…
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Getting to zero coal in Britain
For The Guardian, Niko Kommenda shows the decrease in coal usage for power…
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Rise of the summer sequel
For The New York Times, Keith Collins shows the growing popularity of summer…
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Setting Visualization Expectations to Avoid Audience Confusion (The Process #41)
People misinterpret charts all of the time, because they go in with the wrong expectations before they even fully interpret what a chart is about.
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Counting and illustrating Game of Thrones deaths
Shelly Tan, for The Washington Post, has been counting on-screen deaths in Game…
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Cost of College
We know that more education usually equals more income, but as the cost of education continues to rise, the challenge to earn a college degree also increases.
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Using statistics for basketball efficiency
Ivana Seric is a data scientist for the Philadelphia 76ers who tries to…
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New abortion restrictions by state, since 2011
For FiveThirtyEight, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Gus Wezerek categorized and mapped new abortion restrictions…
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Giorgia Lupi joins Pentagram
Giorgia Lupi, whose work exemplifies the use of data and visualization outside of…
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Mapping politically polarized cities
Rachael Dottle, for FiveThirtyEight, looked for political differences in cities and ranked them,…
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Game of Thrones viewer ratings by season
The last episode is coming. Some people don’t like how it’s ending, and…
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Inverted world map
Frans Block wondered what the world would look like if water and land…
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Making Comparisons Easier When Presenting Data (The Process #40)
Visualization is all about making comparisons. If you have nothing to compare to, then the chart fails. In this issue I describe some of the ways you can make your charts more comparable.
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More candidates and earlier
For Bloomberg, Lauren Leatherby and Paul Murray describe the heightened eagerness to enter…
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Interactive explainer for how disease and ideas spread through a network
Kevin Simler uses interactive simulations to explain how things — ideas, disease, memes…
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Sprawlball, an in-depth look into the evolution of modern basketball
If you’ve seen a basketball shot chart in the past few years, it…
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Pitch speed distribution, a decrease with age
Pitch speed starts to decrease with a baseball player’s age at some point.…