K.K. Rebecca Lai ran her first marathon. She recounts her training and the…
Nathan Yau
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Data-driven running journal
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Rise of Caitlin Clark, scoring machine
Caitlin Clark, a basketball guard for the University of Iowa, has been steadily…
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Race and Occupation
Asian workers are more than three times more likely to be physicians. What other jobs jump out? What’s it like for other races and ethnicity?
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Better or Less Bad
People like to judge charts by pointing out all the things that are wrong, which is limiting in practice.
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BrailleR, a R package to improve access for blind users
From CRAN:
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Diva-ness of national anthem renditions
You’ve probably heard various renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner, and sometimes singers put…
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Consumer confidence in current economic conditions
For NYT Opinion, Nate Silver compares consumer confidence between two surveys. The University…
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When and How Many Super Bowl Wins, by Team
How does the modern Kansas City Chiefs compare to teams who won previous Super Bowls over the past 58 years?
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Your body as a processing plant, digesting a hot wing
Your body goes through a special process to digest spicy food. The sting,…
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Investor expectations for interest rates compared to reality
This chart by Eric Wallerstein for the Wall Street Journal shows expectations against…
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Organizing Data
This week’s topic comes through a FD reader who asks how I manage and organize data from analysis through visualization.
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Highest Education Level and Age Distributions
Education paths start to diverge towards the end of high school and after.
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Speed puzzling times and strategies
There are competitions where people complete jigsaw puzzles as quickly as they can,…
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Evolution of the scrollbar
Sébastien Matos used a straightforward view to show the evolution of the scrollbar,…
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Researchers might have found Amelia Earhart’s crashed plane
For NPR, Juliana Kim reports:
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Decline of the school bus
For WP’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam notes the decline of the…
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Infinite Craft with large language model
Start with water, fire, wind, and earth and see what you can craft…
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Long Information
There was a time when big infographics ruled, and then their popularity faded as quickly as it came. It wasn’t because of their size though, which might have been the only thing right about them.
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A New FlowingData Book, Second Edition
I wrote a book! It’s the second edition of Visualize This. It focuses…
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Local wanderlust
Alastair Humphreys, using a 20 by 20 kilometer map of where he lives,…