Jan Willem Tulp visualized train travel times using distance and color as an…
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Distorting geography to show train travels
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Map of Best Breweries in America, 2018
RateBeer puts out a list every year for top 100 breweries in the world. Here are the states that cracked the list.
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Recursive painting in real life
It started with a mom holding her painting of a bird. Then someone…
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Average view of Earth from space
Using a year’s worth of daily images from NASA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer…
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How Many Kids We Have and When We Have Them
Many parents stop at two kids. Most are done by three. Still, everyone has their own timelines. Here are 1,000 of them.
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – January 2019 Roundup
Throughout the month I collect new tools for data and visualization and additional resources on designing data graphics. Here’s the new stuff for January.
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News story lifespan charts
A wideout view of the news cycle can look like a series of…
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Evolution of the alphabet
Matt Baker provides this nifty diagram on how the alphabet changed over the…
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Closeness in relationships over time, illustrated with a couple of lines
Cartoonist Olivia de Recat illustrated the closeness over time for various relationships. Charming.…
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How to Make a Mosaic Plot in R
Also known as a Marimekko diagram, the mosaic plot lets you compare multiple qualitative variables at once. They can be useful, sometimes.
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After Marriage, How Long People Wait to Have Kids
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage. Sometimes.
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See every member’s path to the House of Representatives
For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy and Jessia Ma visualized the path…
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xkcd: technical analysis
Seems about right.…
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Baby-Making Age
We looked at prime dating age and when people usually marry. Now it’s time for the next step in the circle of life.
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Where to Find Data to Drive Your Visualization
Unfortunately, you can’t just conjure data out of thin air. Well, I guess you can, but it’d probably be sort of unreliable. Kind of. Maybe. So where do you find data? Here’s where I’m at in 2019.
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Rail delay scarf goes for $8,500 on eBay
Sarah Weber posted a picture of a scarf that her mom knit to…
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Scale of tens
I’m always up for some scaled perspective. From David Packer:
Anyone need a…
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DataKind receives $20M grant to expand on data for social good
DataKind, the organization known for helping others use data for social good, received…
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Looking for common misspellings
Some words are harder to spell than others, and on the internet, sometimes…
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Real-time speed of light from Earth to Mars
Hurry up, light. We’re gonna be late:
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By James O’Donoghue,…
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