The United States Geological Survey published composite maps and data for the country’s…
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Geologic map of the United States’ surface
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Personal dashboard for Costco spending
Reddit user ViKoToMo scraped Costco receipts from his account and made a dashboard…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, November 2025 Roundup
Every month I collect visualization tools, datasets, and learning resources. This is the good stuff for November.
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Towards zero traffic fatalities
Speaking of traffic fatalities, Helsinki is doing things differently. Amanda Shendruk for Not-Ship…
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Mapping the most dangerous intersections for pedestrians
For the Washington Post, Ian Duncan, Emmanuel Martinez, and Dylan Moriarty analyzed traffic…
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Who earns a higher salary than you and the jobs they work
Is your salary high, low, or somewhere in the middle? What do people with higher salaries than you do for a living?
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Growing political contributions from billionaires
The Washington Post examined political contributions from the 100 wealthiest Americans, which have…
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xkcd: Fifteen Years
Randall Munroe, of xkcd, illustrated fifteen years with his wife. It is very…
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Making 10M government PDF documents searchable
Government organizations love to distribute documents as PDF files. They are easy to…
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Timeline for news coverage of trans communities
The Trans News Initiative is a collaborative effort to track news coverage of…
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Epstein emails presented as a Gmail inbox
Congress released a collection of emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox. However, as one…
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Visual reconstruction of flooding at Camp Mystic
The New York Times used a mix of media and data sources to…
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Scale of one trillion dollars
If Elon Musk achieves certain benchmarks for Tesla over the next decade, he…
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Claude, a year later
Last year, I documented my experience with Claude, the AI chatbot, for working with and visualizing data. It seemed like a good time to revisit.
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Scientists can track individual butterflies with tiny sensors
Monarch butterflies somehow fly from Ontario, Canada to Mexico City, but the migration…
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Name mentions in Epstein email cache
Congress released a cache of Jeffrey Epstein’s email threads. For the Wall Street…
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Troubling AI-powered toys
From the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a safety report on AI-powered…
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Shifts back to the left for Hispanic voters
In 2024, Hispanic voters in New Jersey took a hard shift to the…
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Threats to democracy in the Congressional Record
As you might imagine, the word “democracy” has been mentioned in Congressional speeches…
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Database of mound charging in baseball
Jon Bois of Secret Base is working on a documentary that covers the…

















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