James Eagle used an animated donut chart to show browser share from 1996…
Nathan Yau
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Browser share over time
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Using Absolute vs. Relative Scales
The key is assigning an appropriate amount of weight, statistically and visually, for comparisons that make sense.
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History of heat records in major U.S. cities
Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding are tracking heat records in…
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Garbage in space
There are thousands of satellites that orbit Earth, with about half of them…
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Maps of noise
Karim Douïeb, in collaboration with Possible, mapped noise in Paris, New York, and…
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Commonness of Divorce in America
I wondered how common it is for someone to get a divorce. While I’ve touched on the topic before, I’ve never calculated it directly, so I gave it a go.
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Time splits from a visualization freelancer
Eli Holder shows how he split his freelance time across various projects and…
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Cancer and statistics
Hannah Fry works with statistics and risk, but her perspective changed when she…
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Calculating the new cost of your summer road trip
With gas prices a lot higher than usual, Júlia Ledur, Leslie Shapiro, and…
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Three Questions to Visualize Data Effectively
Answer the questions. Produce more focused and useful charts.
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Examination of songs after virality on TikTok
Vox, in collaboration with The Pudding, looked at what happens when a song…
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Catching students cheating with R
Matthew Crump, a psychology professor who discovered high volume cheating in his class…
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Cost of breastfeeding, seen in self-tracked data
There are baby formula shortages in the United States. A criticism from some…
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Interest levels for political issues mapped
To estimate public interest in the many political issues across the United States,…
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Election modeling explained
In election reporting, there’s a gap between real-time results and final results, so…
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Charting software that pre-dates Excel
RJ Andrews digs up the PC archives of charting software. Scrolling through the…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, May 2022 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for May.
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Deaths by Firearm, Compared Against Injury-Related Deaths
Among 1- to 19-year-olds, regulations decreased motor vehicle deaths, but deaths by firearms increased and became the leading mechanism in 2018.
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U.S. still the outlier for gun homicide rate
This chart from The New York Times, based on estimates from Our World…
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Children exposed to school shootings
The Washington Post maintains a database of school shootings (which is sad in…