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Darkness mapped in Puerto Rico
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Frequency trails chart explainer
Frequency trails, or currently better known as joyplots, is a visualization method to…
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Math to fix gerrymandering, explained in comic
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Visualizing nonlinear stories
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Days Without a Mass Shooting
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Logos drawn from memory
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Machine learning demo with your webcam and GIFs
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LaVar Ball trolling to the top, through a tweet count lens
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Triangulate a picture
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How fake data goes viral
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How I Made That: Interactive Beeswarm Chart to Compare Distributions
The histogram is my favorite chart type, but it’s unintuitive for many. So I’ve been using the less accurate but less abstract beeswarm.
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Nine rounds a second sonified
The New York Times used sonification along with a dot plot to demonstrate…
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Mass exodus at human scale
Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…
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Grid map variations
Grid maps are a useful way to show state-level data, as they give…
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Falling is Learning
I’ve been teaching my three-year-old son how to ride his bike on two…
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Hand-drawn short trip
Have you seen this yet? Illustrator Alexander Perrin experimented with bringing a hand-drawn…
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Given your income, most beneficial tax breaks
With the release of the Republican proposed tax plan, Reuben Fischer-Baum and Kevin…
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LEGO world map
Check out this five-foot long LEGO world map.
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Who Earns More Income in American Households?
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