One of the best and most direct ways to visualize data with clarity is to ask questions and answer with data.
Nathan Yau
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Questions to visual answers
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Types of deadlines illustrated from beginning to end
Some deadlines come unexpected, some come staggered, and some come on a fixed…
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Rating all the U.S. airports
There are great airports and there are really bad ones. Which one you…
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Table for science-backed vaccine recommendations
Jen Christiansen and Meghan Bartels provide a quick reference for Scientific American:
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AI slop on Last Week Tonight
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver digs into AI slop. It’s the fake…
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When a woman’s cycle stops
Many women lose their period while still of reproductive age. For Reuters, Daisy…
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Overview of the GOP bill, a bar chart
The Washington Post starts with a bar chart to show the major changes…
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Cost and savings for each item in the GOP bill
NYT’s the Upshot has a running list of the items in the bill…
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Effects of the Republican bill on your taxes
The tax bill, that seems to be on its way to passing, will…
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Illustrated fears about AI-generated art
Artist Christoph Niemann chimed in for the New York Times about his complicated…
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Harvard’s $2.6b of grants canceled by the government
For NYT’s the Upshot, Emily Badger, Aatish Bhatia, and Ethan Singer accounted for…
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Matching potential partners based on browser history
Ideally, your romantic partner for life has similar interests, hopes, dreams, and browsing…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, June 2025 Roundup
This is the good stuff for June: tools to use, datasets to analyze, and resources to learn from.
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Weather displayed as vintage 1990s forecast on the Weather Channel
There was a time when you tuned in to the Weather Channel on…
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Rubin Observatory releases first imagery of the night sky at enormous scale
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and…
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Depth of bunker-buster bombs
To show how deep bunker-buster bombs penetrate the ground, the New York…
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Autism definition changed, which led to rise in diagnoses
Allen Frances, a psychiatrist who chaired the group to update the Diagnostic and…
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Satellite imagery shows avoided nuclear reactors in Iran
Jonathan Tirone, reporting for Bloomberg:
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Smart glasses that track activity, emotion, and what you eat
For Tom’s Guide, Jason England reviews smart glasses by Emteq, which are equipped…
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Feelings when strangers talk for 30 minutes
For the Pudding, Alvin Chang uses the CANDOR corpus to explore our feelings…