The farce that was DOGE made claims of heavy savings and government efficiency.…
Nathan Yau
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DOGE claims against reality
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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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Scale of living things
Neal Agarwal published another gift to the internet with Size of Life. It…
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Online gambling brings in billions through state taxes
There are seven states that legalized gambling on your phone. So you can…
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Looking for the right angles into the data
This week, we look at the making of a treemap on income, following a decade of other charts. All paths lead somewhere.
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Highlighting historical visualization
Michael Friendly, known for piecing together the history of visualization, chatted with Cabinet…
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Zillow removed climate risk scores, because property-level modeling is not foolproof
When Zillow removed climate risk scores from property listings, many assumed the company…
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Climate change driving home insurance higher
As hurricanes and wildfires grow more common in some areas, home values go…
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Rising cost of streaming
The cost of streaming services keeps going up. There are plans with and…
















Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
