Here are things you can use, poke at, and learn from that bubbled up this past month.
Nathan Yau
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Visualization Tools and Resources, January 2025 Roundup
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Stress of growing a human, charted
Maggie Appleton is growing a human, and as you might expect, pregnancy can…
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Quarter century of self-portraits
Noah Kalina has been taking a picture of himself every day for 25…
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Federal programs under review
A spreadsheet of 2,600 grant and loan programs circulated to federal agencies, alongside…
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Overrated NBA all-star votes
NBA all-star voting is mostly for the fans, which means some players can…
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Plain text box scores
New to me, Plain Text Sports shows box scores for the major sports…
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Cozy game about cozy games
Cozy games are casual games that give you a warm, fuzzy feeling when…
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Fastest-growing and most destructive fires
Using satellite data, researchers analyzed the growth rate of 60,000 fires in the…
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Work Cohorts
See how many people are in various work cohorts, given education, annual income, weekly hours, and commute time.
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Astoria, not the single-parent capital of America
In Kindergarten Cop, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s greatest works, a mother welcomes the…
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Private school demographics
Private schools cost extra. So as you might imagine, the demographics, often tied…
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Better or Worse, More or Less
Comparisons, also known as the thief of joy, are unavoidable, so we might as well make fair ones that consider context.
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With InflataCart, your grocery list plus inflation data
If you shop at the grocery store regularly, you’ve felt prices increasing, especially…
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Geolocating photos automatically
GeoSpy is an AI tool that geolocates outdoor photos. It’s currently pitched as…
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Tracker for freezing temperatures
The forecast for the contiguous United States this week is cold, and below…
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Falling in love with a chatbot
Possibly related, Kashmir Hill for The New York Times tells the story of…
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Young and alone
John Burn-Murdoch, for Financial Times (paywalled), breaks down data from the American Time…
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Where you would feel richer and poorer
New to me, Bloomberg has an interactive by Claire Ballentine and Charlie Wells…
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Extremely detailed 2024 election data, precinct level
As is tradition, The New York Times published a detailed map of presidential…
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Wildfire risk for buildings in Los Angeles
As we have learned in recent weeks, even when homes seem far away…