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Map of flood in Nepal

Maps / flood, Nepal, New York Times

For the New York Times, Pablo Robles, Leanne Abraham, and Josh Holder mapped…
Darth Vader makes the case for Flock cameras

Data Sharing / Darth Vader, Flock, privacy

Flock Safety has been getting some hate lately, because as it turns out,…
A third of new webpages written with AI

Artificial Intelligence / Internet, Pew Research, writing

It is trivial to generate bodies of text on infinite topics, so of…
Amazon shutting down Mechanical Turk

Artificial Intelligence / Amazon, CNBC, Mechanical Turk, shutdown

Annie Palmer for CNBC:
“We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and services and…
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Visualization tools, datasets, and resources — August 2026 roundup

The Process / roundup

Here is what happened in August.
When politicians turned against data centers

Statistical Visualization / data center, politics, Washington Post

For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill analyzed newsletters and social media posts…
Mathematical rivers

Maps / drainage, Quanta, rivers

There is a simple law from John Hack that says the length of…
Why Americans are not working

Data Underload / labor force, work

Older people are working later in life and younger people are not entering the labor force as early.
Trustworthy data visualization

Statistical Visualization / Kieran Healy, trust

Kieran Healy, a professor of sociology at Duke University, gives an enjoyable lecture…
Steep rise in electric vehicle sales

Statistical Visualization / electric vehicle, New York Times

For the New York Times, Mira Rojanasakul and Brad Plumer report on the…
How the U.S. national debt got to $40 trillion

Infographics / debt, government, revenue, spending, Washington Post

When you spend more than you make, you get debt. For the Washington…
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Seeing data from different perspectives

The Process / perspective

This week is about changing perspectives so we can find and visualize new insights.
Google buys Spirit Airlines data in bankruptcy sale

Artificial Intelligence / Gizmodo, Google, Spirit Airlines, training

Spirit Airlines went bankrupt for real this time, and Google bought the data.…
Trillions of dollars in AI spending not in the balance sheet yet

Artificial Intelligence / spending, technology, Wall Street Journal

For the Wall Street Journal, Peter Rudegeair and Peter Santilli report on the…
Amazon buying rare books in bulk for training

Artificial Intelligence / 404 Media, Amazon, tracking, training

Suspecting that an anonymous order of 1,000 books was headed to an AI…
Tariff avoidance in solar manufacturing from China

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, China, solar, tariff

To avoid heavy solar tariffs, China allegedly moved manufacturing to other countries. When…
Emoji usage and age generations

Statistical Visualization / emoji, New York Times

For NYT’s the Upshot, Eve Washington, Larry Buchanan, and Claire Cain Miller examined…
OpenAI accidentally makes attack bots

Artificial Intelligence / attack, bot, OpenAI

Multiple bots exploited a vulnerability in OpenAI’s security system to gain internet access.…
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Set expectations and verify

The Process / Large Language Model, mistakes, trust

This week, we talk flimsy results and how to work on things that build trust over content.
Origins of American city names

Maps / cities, Henry Gannett, history, names, Wall Street Journal

In the early 1900s, Henry Gannett cataloged the origins of city names in…

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