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There’s a science to getting thousands of people to wait…
Nathan Yau
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Queuing systems and crowd engineering
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Making illicit fentanyl
The process of making fentanyl might not be as complicated as one would…
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Evaluating Bad Visualization
Bad charts and maps are common, but there’s usually a better response than pointing and laughing. Not all the time, but usually.
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Decline in data for AI bots to scrape
The Data Provenance Initiative audited 14,000 web domains to see how sites currently…
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Scrolling map on receipt paper
Aaron Koelker printed a six-foot long map on receipt printer earlier this year.…
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American Height and Weight
Using body mass index (BMI), which is calculated with height and weight, most people fall into the categories of overweight or obese.
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Embroidered landscapes
Victoria Rose Richards uses embroidery to depict aerial views and landscapes. The above…
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Illustrated guides to Olympic sports
Reuters, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, has visual guides to all of the…
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Olympic data journalism
Speaking of the Olympics, Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers talked about the warm-blooded…
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How Olympic athletes combat the heat
A part of outdoor sports is that you must deal with the weather,…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, July 2024 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for July.
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Clean energy from fracking
We usually hear about fracking in a negative context, but for the Washington…
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Gunman and countersnipers’ points of view during shooting
The New York Times collected drone footage and built a 3-D model to…
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When Working Gets Harder With Age
Difficulties increase steadily over the years, but if we’re lucky enough to reach our 80s, there appears to be a steeper drop.
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Cryptocurrency-funded politics
Those who run cryptocurrency companies have much to gain from policies that favor…
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Nate Silver critiques the new 538 forecast model
Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…
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Overlap between area codes HTTP response headers
Like many, you’ve probably wondered what HTTP response headers are also area codes…
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Sliding for Data
The slider, a common UI element with a range and a handle that you can drag, has been around for a long time. It’s proven to be useful for visualization.
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Where immigrants in the U.S. came from
A lot of immigration talk in the U.S. focuses on Mexico, but immigrants…
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Federal data at risk
It continues to grow more difficult for federal statistical agencies to accurately measure…