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Your name shaped under a trend line

Data Art / Karim Douïeb, names, text

Add another graphic to the baby name genre of visualization. Karim Douïeb put…
Macy’s lost track of $154m in expenses because of poor metrics

Mistaken Data / Bloomberg, Macy's, money

For Bloomberg, Jeannette Neumann describes the accounting error:
For years, Macy’s Inc. touted…
Higher margins with fewer hospital staff, not the best mix

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, hospital, medicine

Many hospitals in the United States are for-profit, which itself is not a…
China jumps to car exports leader in just a few years

Infographics / China, export, New York Times, vehicles

China exported next to zero vehicles in 2010, but from 2020 to 2024,…
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Is there a better gift than the gift of knowledge? No, there is…
Material requirements from EV batteries

Statistical Visualization / batteries, cost, electric vehicle, Washington Post

To make batteries for electric vehicles, manufacturers require materials from all over the…
Peak Thanksgiving Food

Data Underload / food, Google Trends, Thanksgiving

One of the highlights of Thanksgiving in the United States is the food, as seen through the lens of Google Trends.
3-D print of John Snow cholera map

Maps / 3-D printing, ‪Alex Selby-Boothroyd, John Snow, physical

You know the John Snow map that highlights a cholera outbreak in London,…
Daily post-it notes as stop motion diary

Self-surveillance / Daren Jannace, post-it

Daren Jannace animated 30 frames per day for one year and then put…
Movie runtimes framed by life expectancy

Infographics / humor, Michael Condouris, mortality

Memento Movi, a mini-app by Michael Condouris, is what you get when you…
Rainbow Sky, the colors mentioned on Bluesky

Infographics / Bluesky, color, firehose, Martin Wattenberg

Martin Wattenberg drew up a live visualization that shows colors mentioned in Bluesky…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, November 2024 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for the month: things to use, things to poke at, and things to learn from.
Our World in Data wants you to use their data with improved export and API

Data Sources / API, Our World in Data

Our World in Data is a hub for research and reliable data to…
LLM-driven robot made of garbage

Artificial Intelligence / Chris Fenton, Large Language Model, robot

We like to imagine a world of autonomous robots that take care of…
Foursquare open sources location data

Data Sources / foursquare, location

Foursquare, which I thought was still a location sharing app but is a…
Tree blanket color-coded by local temperature

Data Art / blanket, crochet, physical, temperature

Speaking of data blankets, the knitting club in the area I live has…
Bathymetry blanket crochet

Data Art / bathymetry, crochet, ocean, physical

Jesse Gwinn, from NOAA, was at sea on a mapping expedition and to…
Emoji rain and Bluesky Matrix

Infographics / Bluesky, emoji, firehose, Jared Short

Bluesky firehose fun continues. Jared Short shows emoji usage as rain drops that…
Stream of deleted Bluesky posts

Data Sources / Bluesky, deletion, firehose

To demonstrate how easy and cheap it is to access the Bluesky firehose,…
Tunnel through the live Bluesky firehose

Infographics / Bluesky, firehose, Theo Sanderson

Bluesky has a relatively easy-to-use firehose that lets you dip into the stream…

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