Focus on the small visualization things you can improve while still getting your work done.
Nathan Yau
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Chart Practice: Feature Focus
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Scale model of the universe’s timeline
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More hiring, because more quitting
This is a good example of things are not quite what they seem…
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A guessing game for place and time
Add another geolocation guessing game that I am terrible at. TimeGuessr shows you…
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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
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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
You’ve probably heard about big data breaches over the years. They’re in the…
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Spreadsheet esports
You’ve probably heard of esports, where people compete against each other in multiplayer…
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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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Eurovision winners past and present
The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest finished up this past weekend with the winning…
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A visual story about kimchi and family
Alvin Chang, for The Pudding, illustrated the search for his kimchi, which is…
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Scale of billions of dollars in Australia’s budget
To show the scale of tax cuts and Australia’s budget, ABC News takes…
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Population surrounded by interstate highways
Filed under random but fun calculations, Alasdair Rae estimated the number of people…
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Chart Practice: Mimicking Others
One of the most straightforward ways to “do the thing” — and stay on the right track towards work you want to do — is to mimic projects that you like.