Erika McEntarfer, the former chief for the Bureau of Labor Statistics made her…
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Fired BLS chief on how the day happened
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Helicopter paths show circling and hovering in Washington, D.C.
The Washington Post algorithmically identified circling flight paths for helicopters over Washington, D.C.,…
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Bird migrations in a map explorer
The Bird Migration Explorer shows bird migrations that you can explore. Each color…
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Sorting data, the quiz game
Speaking of data games, Dataguessr by David Bauer is a sorting game that…
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Real bits, part 2
This week, we highlight more literal representations of data, because in the end, it’s the only thing that separates us from the artificial.
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Chartle, a daily guessing game with charts
Chartle, by Erwan Rivault and Adnaan Jiwa, is a game to test and/or…
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Getting more difficult to find a job
For the Washington Post, Taylor Telford, Jaclyn Peiser, and Federica Cocco report on…
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Explaining the true size of Africa, a lesson in map projections
For Reuters, Mariano Zafra and Sudev Kiyada highlight the true size of Africa…
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What people use ChatGPT for
OpenAI released a study of how people are using their chatbot.
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Shrinking box office
This summer was supposed to be a return to pre-pandemic levels of movie-going,…
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Seeking dividends over long-term investment
There is a growing trend among investors to put money in places with…
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Epstein inbox and a spreadsheet of gifts
Bloomberg gained access to an email cache from Jeffrey Epstein’s Yahoo Mail inbox,…
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Aerial view of Charlie Kirk event
This sight is growing too common in the United States. The New York…
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Detailed map of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away
In case you’re trying to navigate from one star to another in the…
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Making of: Salary and Occupation beeswarm charts
I refreshed an old project with new data and interactions. This week we walk through the steps.
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Fourier transform history in mathematics
For Quanta Magazine, Shalma Wegsman provides a history of Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier’s transform.…
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Real polling asks real people, unlike synthetic sampling
Synthetic sampling uses models to “survey” fake respondents. G. Elliott Morris and Verasight…
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Bots account for almost a third of web traffic
Bots have crawled the web for a long time, but the past couple…
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Lack of promised coding productivity with AI tools
A big promise behind AI coding tools is that they will make you…
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Job growth revised by -911,000
The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised job counts down by almost a million:…


















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