Evie Liu and William Davis, reporting MarketWatch, looked at release strategies of Oscar…
Nathan Yau
-
Release strategies for Oscar-nominated films
-
Is there something wrong with democracy?
Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, for The New York Times, answer the question…
-
World population estimator and gridded data from NASA
Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…
-
The Demographics of Others
I think we can all benefit from knowing a little more about others these days. This is a glimpse of how different groups live.
-
Surprise, the world was warmer again in 2017
According to NASA estimates, 2017 was the second warmest year on record since…
-
Data to identify Wikipedia rabbit holes
New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is… -
Porn traffic before and after the missile alert in Hawaii
PornHub compared minute-to-minute traffic on their site before and after the missile alert…
-
Compare your fears against reality
From ABC News, this is a clever comparison between people’s worst fears and…
-
Musical hexagons
This is a fun ditty by Vasco Asturiano. I’m a little too far…
-
Back to the Future, Abridged Chart Edition
Back to more important topics, amirite?
-
Mapping global accessibility to cities
From The Malaria Atlas Project, a global map of estimated accessibility to cities:…
-
Statistical detection of potential child abuse cases
Dan Hurley, reporting for The New York Times, describes the use of statistical…
-
Scale comparison of wildfires
The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…
-
When data is not quite what it seems
FiveThirtyEight used a dataset on broadband as the basis for a couple of…
-
Members Only
How to Make Venn Diagrams in R
The usually abstract, qualitative and sometimes quantitative chart type shows relationships. You can make them in R, if you must.
-
When the interesting pattern ends up just being computer byproduct
Good lesson here. Christian Laesser was playing around with receipt data and initially…
-
Unconstitutional gerrymandering
Alan Blinder and Michael Wines reporting for The New York Times:
A panel… -
Spotting rip currents
Rip currents are like hidden rivers near the shore that head out to…
-
Visualizing the Uncertainty in Data
Data is an abstraction, and it’s impossible to encapsulate everything it represents in real life. So there is uncertainty. Here are ways to visualize the uncertainty.
-
Obliteration Room invited people to put dotted stickers everywhere
The Obliteration Room (2012) by artist Yayoi Kusama started as a blank white…
Recently for Members
Browse by Chart Type See All →
Browse By Topic
Get the Book
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
Available now.
