The last episode is coming. Some people don’t like how it’s ending, and…
Nathan Yau
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Game of Thrones viewer ratings by season
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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.…
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Growing similarity in global diet
Diet around the world is growing more similar. National Geographic charted estimates of…
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Line Chart Baselines Do Not Have to Start at Zero (The Process #39)
There was renewed interest in — gasp — truncated axes this week, a never-ending debate about whether starting axes at non-zero is misleading.
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How the 2020 Census will be different
Ted Mellnik and Reuben Fischer-Baum for The Washington Post describe the changes to…
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Amount of fish to raise a big fish
Raising living things requires resources. In the case of fish, it requires more…
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Remixing the grocery receipt with data visualization
In prototyping mode, Susie Lu incorporated visualization into the common receipt from the…
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Game of Thrones books versus television series
I think I started watching Game of Thrones around the fourth season (my…
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Chart chooser based on data format
There are many chart types to choose from, which is great, because there’s…
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Axis Labels, Better Than Defaults (The Process #38)
In this guide, I look maybe a little too closely at how to adjust axis labels for more readable charts.
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How many Skittles packs before finding identical ones?
A note on a pack of Skittles reads, “No two rainbows are the…
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When People Find a New Job
Looking at the 100 most common jobs people switched to, a timeline comes into view when we adjust the relative switch rates by age.
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Game of Thrones death predictor
Monica Ramirez tried her hand with modeling deaths on Game of Thrones and…
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GitHub is meant to track code
Jen Luker noted, “As amazing as @github is, it is a tool designed…
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Maps of natural disasters and extreme weather
For The Washington Post, Tim Meko mapped floods, tornados, hurricanes, extreme temperatures, wildfires,…