This week is about highlighting changes in data visually to make them glaringly obvious.
Nathan Yau
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Visualizing Differences Between Two Points in Time
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Instead of lying with data, just delete it altogether
Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell, for Washington Post Opinion, highlight the current strategies…
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Clocking out of work earlier
According to data from ActivTrak, people are shortening their work days with higher…
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Fewer honking complaints after congestion pricing
This might come as a surprise to some, but since congestion pricing in…
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Everyday life changes after Covid
In almost every dataset about life and people that stretches back past March…
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Political typology quiz
From Pew Research, this political typology quiz is from four years ago but…
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Less sense of belonging, in middle school
Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, highlights education research on the awkwardness of middle…
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Access FiveThirtyEight resources while they’re still around
Last week, Disney laid off FiveThirtyEight employees and announced the site would cease…
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Charted history of the baby boom
For Our World in Data, Saloni Dattani and Lucas Rodés-Guirao analyzed the various…
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Smell Test for Data
The first part of visualizing data usefully is making sure the data you’re working with is not terrible.
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$38b of government money that funded Musk companies
Elon Musk has been critical of government spending, as he and DOGE fire…
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Frozen government money pipe
Planet Money explains the Daily Treasury Statement from the U.S. Treasury. The data…
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Nate Silver on Disney’s 538
Nate Silver writes a few thoughts on the closing of FiveThirtyEight:
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FiveThirtyEight is shutting down completely
Disney is cutting news jobs, and FiveThirtyEight, which was absorbed by ABC News…
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Creativity and optimization
For The New York Times, Siobhan Roberts talked to mathematician and Fields Medal…
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Optimizing basketball, too much
For Bloomberg, Ira Boudway reports on NBA basketball going too far with the…
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Ambiguity in what counts as American-made vehicles
Speaking of imported vehicle parts, June Kim and Neal Boudette, for The New…
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Imported parts on a Chevrolet Silverado
To demonstrate how tariffs can impact American products, Financial Times focuses on the…
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Survey answers and framing the question
When you see surveys that supposedly ask the same question, you might wonder…
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Products affected by tariffs in the U.S.
Luis Melgar and Rachel Lerman, for the Washington Post, highlight the value of…