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Map of donut federations
In a fun one by Alyssa Fowers, for The Washington Post’s Department of…
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Changes to Blackjack payouts so that gamblers lose more to casinos
Katherine Sayre, for The Wall Street Journal, on Las Vegas casinos squeezing out…
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Rights at risk at the U.S. Supreme Court level
For ProPublica, Ian MacDougall and Sergio Hernandez evaluated records of sitting justices to…
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An open-access journal for visualization research
In an effort to provide a more transparent process in visualization and interaction…
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Chart Practice: Feature Focus
Focus on the small visualization things you can improve while still getting your work done.
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Scale model of the universe’s timeline
To better understand the scale of time and feed your existential dread, Wylie…
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More hiring, because more quitting
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A guessing game for place and time
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Shortening baseball games
Baseball games grew longer over the decades, with the average length well over…
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How teenagers’ job ambitions have changed
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), run by the OECD since 2000,…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, May 2023 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for May.
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A geolocation game in the format of Wordle
With a cross between the games Wordle and GeoGuessr, Russell Samora for The…
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All the Household Types in the U.S.
No need to restrict ourselves to the most common types. There are thousands. Let’s look at all of them.
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A portrait of your stolen identity in data breaches
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Spreadsheet esports
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Swipe left or right to cut the national debt
Cutting the national debt is a complex process that involves a lot more…
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Chart Practice: Switching the Datasets
Same data brings out the same visual forms. So switch up the data that you look at.
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How much AI will affect your job
Research by Edward W. Felten, Manav Raj, and Robert Seamans provides estimates for…
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How to Make Unit-Based, Variable Width Bar Charts
In a cross between unit charts and variable width bar charts, we can show total counts and relative proportions at the same time.
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