While there are laws in the U.S. to protect some of your privacy…
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Airlines sell passenger flight data to Customs and Border Protection
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Nazi propaganda charts
RJ Andrews and Attila Bátorfy highlight information graphics from Signal, the Nazi propaganda…
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Flower blooms to visualize climate change
Annelie Berner used blooming flowers as a visual metaphor to show climate change.…
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John Snow probably didn’t use that Broad Street map to reach his conclusions about cholera
Many visualization folks recognize the cholera map as a vital tool that John…
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Reduced sampling for Consumer Price Index estimates
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a reduction in data collection to put…
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Magnus Carlsen chess match against the wisdom of crowds ends in a draw
Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen played against 143,000 people in a single game. The…
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Professor who studied honesty loses tenure over faked data
A couple years ago, Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data,…
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Caring Data
Hi folks. It’s Nathan. Welcome to the Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members…
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Progressive tax rates in Western Europe
There is always ample discussion about progressive tax rates in the United States.…
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Unknowable energy footprint
For MIT Technology Review, James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart ran numbers and interviewed…
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AI energy usage, rough estimates for the hardware
Hardware for AI uses a whole lot of energy while training on data…
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Survey microdata for free
Downloading survey microdata from public resources can be tricky. Sometimes the documentation is…
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Last episode of Not So Standard Deviations podcast
Roger Peng and Hilary Parker started the statistics and data science podcast Not…
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Data-driven story on the first vaccine
As we enter a time when people question the usefulness of vaccines, even…
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Pay more taxes and receive less
The Congressional Budget Office published a report estimating effects on household income if…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, May 2025 Roundup
The good stuff from May: tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from.
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Schools with the most international students
As the administration tries to block international students from attending Harvard University, NYT’s…
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Education as an export
The administration is making it more difficult if not impossible for foreign students…
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Marketplace for government agencies to buy all the personal data about Americans
For the Intercept, Sam Biddle reports on government plans for a one-stop shop…
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Undisclosed surveillance with facial recognition in New Orleans
For The Washington Post, Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer report on a system…