Many data things were made this year. These are my favorites.
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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025
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Trouble with AI chatbots that mimic people
Kashmir Hill reports for the New York Times:
Schneiderman, the computer science professor,… -
Prediction market for all the things is mostly sports, but they don’t talk about that
Kalshi is a prediction market that aims to let users bet on everything.…
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Infinite New Year’s ball drop
On New Year’s Eve in New York, a ball drops 139 feet for…
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College football happiness rankings
For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Artur Galocha, ranked college…
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Network of deportation
The current administration is bent on deporting people from the United States. For…
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Falling out of love with a chatbot
Earlier this year, Kashmir Hill, for the New York Times, reported on a…
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DOGE claims against reality
The farce that was DOGE made claims of heavy savings and government efficiency.…
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Best and worst decades of life are in the present
YouGov asked people when they think will be the best years of their…
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Marrying a ChatGPT-driven virtual partner
A woman in Japan “married” her virtual partner in a real-world ceremony. Such…
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AI vending machine gets tested
Anthropic let the Wall Street Journal kick the tires on an AI-driven vending…
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Trump business network spreads
For the Wall Street Journal, David Uberti, Juanje Gómez, and Kara Dapena mapped…
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R climbs back up into the top ten programming languages
There were murmurs that R was on the way down, but this year…
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Times New Roman vs. Calibri typefaces
The State Department decided that they will use Times New Roman instead of…
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Ridgeline chart for fun and clarity
This week, we round off 2025 with a chart breakdown for one of my favorite types, the ridgeline chart. It has layers.
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Who we choose to spend our days with
Given the season, I wondered about the time we spend with others and who we spend our limited hours with.
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Getting stuck in the mental health section of the TikTok algorithm
The Washington Post analyzed TikTok usage, finding what topics the algorithm nudges users…
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AI-generated recaps pulled by Amazon Prime Video
For the show Fallout, Amazon Prime Video was testing AI-generated episode recaps, but…
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McDonald’s pulls AI-generated commercial, because terrible
McDonald’s Netherlands put up a commercial that was generated with AI and it…
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More homeowners turning to insurance last resort
Wildfires and hurricanes continue to grow more common, so insurance companies have more…
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