The first part of visualizing data usefully is making sure the data you’re working with is not terrible.
Nathan Yau
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Smell Test for Data
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$38b of government money that funded Musk companies
Elon Musk has been critical of government spending, as he and DOGE fire…
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Frozen government money pipe
Planet Money explains the Daily Treasury Statement from the U.S. Treasury. The data…
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Nate Silver on Disney’s 538
Nate Silver writes a few thoughts on the closing of FiveThirtyEight:
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FiveThirtyEight is shutting down completely
Disney is cutting news jobs, and FiveThirtyEight, which was absorbed by ABC News…
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Creativity and optimization
For The New York Times, Siobhan Roberts talked to mathematician and Fields Medal…
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Optimizing basketball, too much
For Bloomberg, Ira Boudway reports on NBA basketball going too far with the…
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Ambiguity in what counts as American-made vehicles
Speaking of imported vehicle parts, June Kim and Neal Boudette, for The New…
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Imported parts on a Chevrolet Silverado
To demonstrate how tariffs can impact American products, Financial Times focuses on the…
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Survey answers and framing the question
When you see surveys that supposedly ask the same question, you might wonder…
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Products affected by tariffs in the U.S.
Luis Melgar and Rachel Lerman, for the Washington Post, highlight the value of…
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Imports that could be taxed
We’ve mostly heard about tariffs as they apply further down the supply chain…
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House colors as an indicator for gentrification
It appears that gray and neutral tones on houses are a sign of…
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Reality of organ transplant waiting lists
One might hope that people on a waiting list for an organ transplant…
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Network of statistical distributions
The network of 76 probability distributions show how they are connected:
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USDA sued for removing climate data
Farming and environmental groups are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture for removing…
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources — February 2025 Roundup
Here are tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from that bubbled up in February.
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Wikipedia as a walkable, virtual museum
Imagine everything on Wikipedia in an infinite museum of galleries. That’s what Maya…
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Disconnect between generated and real beauty expectations
Generative AI is readily accessible these days, which has led to an influx…
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Visualizing all the books in the world
To show a catalog of almost 100 million books in one view, phiresky…