There are hundreds of occupations, and while the exact number varies by classification system, most U.S. government organizations list about 500 of them. These are the standouts.
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Jobs of a Certain Age
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Jimmy Carter’s longevity compared to other U.S. presidents
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, turned 100 years old.…
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Reordered baseball lineup over decades
Baseball’s batting lineup has changed from what seemed to make sense to what…
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Rainfall in the path of Hurricane Helene
Western North Carolina got the brunt of Hurricane Helene with two feet of…
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Counting mullets in the AFL
The mullet has grown popular in the Australian Football League. ABC News counted…
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Trash balloons released by North Korea landing in South Korea
North Korea has been releasing thousands of trash bags into the air with…
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Hurricane categories, visually explained
As Hurricane Helene approached Florida, it grew from a tropical storm to a…
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – September 2024 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for September 2024.
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Statistical challenges of measuring immigration
Jed Kolko, the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs of the…
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Q&A with Amstat News
Fourteen years ago, I did a short Q&A with Amstat News, where apparently…
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Election game to win the White House against other readers
For Financial Times, Sam Learner, Oliver Roeder, and Irene de la Torre Arenas…
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Energy used to generate an email with AI
For The Washington Post, Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan illustrate the scale of…
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Environmental cost of food
The New York Times highlights the work of True Price Foundation, a group…
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How to Map with Contour Lines and GeoTIFF in R
GeoTIFF data can provide high granularity but make it hard to see patterns when data is sparse. Contour lines provide an aggregated view that makes patterns easier to see.
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Grocery owner territories
Any day is a good day for a map of predominant commercial chains.…
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Immigration in Democrat counties
For Bloomberg, Elena Mejía and Shawn Donnan use a transitioning cartogram to show…
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Rowboat for fast CSV exploration
Fathom Information Design, known for client visualization-centric projects, introduced Rowboat. It’s a tool…
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Political leanings of first and last names
For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam and Lenny Bronner analyzed names and…
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Satellite imagery of all the outdoor basketball courts
For The Pudding, Matthew Daniels extracted all the outdoor basketball courts in the…
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Refreshing Map Tutorials; Design Trade-Offs and Making the Wrong Choice
Visualization always involves trade-offs between audience, insights, and resources. Sometimes you make the wrong choice.