There are competitions where people complete jigsaw puzzles as quickly as they can,…
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Speed puzzling times and strategies
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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,…
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Commonness of Races in Different Occupations
Some occupations are more race-dominant than others. This is the percentage of employed persons 16 years and older who are a given race or ethnicity for each.
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World railway map
Usually you see a railway map from a local perspective, because it’s meant…
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Cost of a Big Mac at every McDonald’s in the United States
A map, by Pantry & Larder, shows the cost of a Big Mac…
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Shifting bird populations
Using data from the crowdsourced database eBird, Harry Stevens mapped the shifts in…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, January 2024 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for January.
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Mathematical feature in all Sudoku puzzles
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Catalog of AI data tools
Meant to be comprehensive more than a curated collection, the Journalist’s Toolbox AI…
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Where else to find FlowingData
You can always count on the site for updates on visualization, data, and…
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DNA face to facial recognition in attempt to find suspect
In an effort to find a suspect in a 1990 murder, there was…
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Oceans that all the rivers drain
Rivers drain into oceans. Grasshopper Geography color-coded the rivers in the world by…
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Collection of NBA basketball data sources and apps
If you’re into basketball data, Sravan Pannala is keeping a running list of…
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Learning animal languages with AI
Financial Times highlights how researchers are using AI to try to learn what…