Every month I collect tools and resources that help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for February.
Nathan Yau
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, February 2024 Roundup
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Algorithmic road trip to visit a street named after each day of the year
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McDonald’s Locations vs. Golf Courses
There are thousands of McDonald’s locations, but there are still more golf courses in the United States. This seems surprising, but some maps make it clear.
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Interactive LED basketball court
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Map of most common domesticated animals
Based on data from the USDA Census of Agriculture, this map by John…
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Feeling Rested with Age
How much you sleep each night matters, but more importantly, it’s about the quality and if you feel rested when you wake up.
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Looking for a Denominator
To decide if values are high or low, sometimes you have to divide the numbers for a relative comparison instead of an absolute one.
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Love: math or magic?
This American Life tells the tales as old as time:
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Data-driven running journal
K.K. Rebecca Lai ran her first marathon. She recounts her training and the…
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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
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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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