For The New York Times, K.K. Rebecca Lai and Jennifer Medina show the…
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Evolution of race categories in U.S. Census forms
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Making Dents
Every now and then, the work can feel like too much, but that usually means I’ve lost sight of the point.
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Gaza Strip size compared to U.S. cities
One of the most straightforward ways to help others better understand the scale…
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More pets than children in Taiwan
Julia Janicki, Daisy Chung, and Joyce Chou explore Taiwan’s aging population, where in…
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Most Common Causes of Death, by Age
This is how the most common causes have changed over time for people aged 0 to 85.
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Realistic rendering of Canada’s wildfires
Peter Atwood used NASA data to depict the wildfires in Canada this year.…
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Dip in solar generation during the solar eclipse
Solar power is clean and all, but what happens when the sun is…
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Map of the 2023 solar eclipse
The moon is going to get in the way of the sun this…
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Scale of Things
Whether a difference seems big or small, important or not, depends on the scale you choose.
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Where the clouds are the highest
Cloud formation depends on temperature and moisture levels, so in places of high…
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How to Make a Heatmap with Irregular Bins in R
There are existing functions and packages to make heatmaps in R, but when the data is irregular, it’s worth going custom.
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Real space location of Star Trek and other science fiction
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Nobel Prize for research in global labor markets, using historical data
Claudia Goldin, an economist at Harvard, has won the Nobel Prize in Economics.…
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Mapping Israel and Gaza attacks
The New York Times is mapping rocket strikes, attacks, and ongoing conflict in…
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News organizations blocking OpenAI
Ben Welsh has a running list of the news organizations blocking OpenAI crawlers:…
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Following the path of the 2024 solar eclipse
There is going to be a solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The…
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Anti-Aggregate
Look at individual data points separately and get more out of the small pictures.
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Tree rings to compare life expectancy in your state
The Washington Post goes with a tree ring metaphor to compare life expectancy…
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Scale of Sports Fields and Courts
Here are the major sports drawn at the same scale to help appreciate the differences between field and court sizes.
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Billion dollar natural disasters
For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Leslie Kaufman go with the combo stacked area…