Gordon Hart put together a fun interactive atlas of space. Click on objects,…
Nathan Yau
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Atlas of Space
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Checking TSA PreCheck time savings
TSA PreCheck allows U.S. travelers to skip the part of airport security where…
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Counting the reduction of federal health workforce
The U.S. federal government does not release official numbers for the cuts to…
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Most American and British words
For WaPo’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam goes looking for American and…
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Visualization Tools and Resources – August 2025
Here are tools to use, datasets to poke at, and resources to learn from.
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Vibe coding from a non-programmer’s perspective
For Wired, Lauren Goode spent a day vibe-coding at Notion:
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Scraping the Spotify playlists of public figures
New to me, someone anonymously scraped and published the Spotify playlists of a…
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Will Smith’s AI usage troubles and the fake-ish crowds
Will Smith posted a video showing highlights from his tour, but parts of…
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Summer getting longer
For the Washington Post, Kasha Patel and Naema Ahmed mapped the change in…
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There is no correct map
Speaking of the Correct the Map campaign, Miguel García Álvarez reminds that there…
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Moving away from Mercator for maps of the world
For Reuters, Catarina Demony and Ayendeng Bior report on the African Union’s push…
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Breaking competitive yo-yo
Soloham is a yo-yo style where there are two yo-yos off the string.…
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Deceiving seniors for political fundraising, like a Nigerian prince
Adam Bonica analyzed the age of donors across different groups and politicians. For…
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Visualization editing
This week we make a solid, straightforward chart more readable and focused. It’s about the small things.
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Evaluating the fairness and gerrymandering of district boundaries
PlanScore uses four measures to define partisan gerrymandering, and they’ve made the data…
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Business of making AI slop videos
For the Washington Post, Drew Harwell reports on the budding industry of AI-generated…
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Tracking changes to Census data
Hannah Recht is tracking data through the U.S. Census Bureau APIs:
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By news source, education levels of the audience
You probably have a rough idea of education levels for each audience, but…
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Optimized onion cutting for the most uniform dice
For the Pudding, Andrew Aquino, with Russell Samora and Jan Diehm, supplies interactive…
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Alcohol is amazing and also terrible
We know that alcohol is not the healthiest beverage to consume. When abused,…