From the outsider point of view, a path towards collision might seem obvious,…
Nathan Yau
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Possible field of vision from the helicopter seat
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Designs for Missing/Changing Data
How do we visualize the data that isn’t there or new estimates that arise when methodology changes?
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Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
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Golphe du Mexique, 1765
After a gulf rename, I got to browsing some historical maps. Jacques Nicolas…
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How time works
Cartoonist Becky Barnicoat illustrates the passing of time over a year. Seems right:…
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Value of government data
While government data remains in limbo, for Slate, Lizzie O’Leary highlights the sectors…
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Try to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget
The “Department of Government Efficiency” wants to cut $2 trillion from the federal…
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Access previous versions of government websites with GovWayback
You can use the Internet Archive to access historical versions, but GovWayback makes…
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Gulf of Mexico changes to Gulf of America
The Gulf of Mexico has been renamed to the Gulf of America in…
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Leaving out keywords in a halftime show
I missed this one last week, pre-Super Bowl, but for The Washington Post,…
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Hank Azaria on human voices and AI mimicry
Hank Azaria, who does the voices for many characters on The Simpsons, wrote…
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Hiding data in an emoji
Messing with how emojis are encoded, Paul Butler demonstrates how one might hide…
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Flight map shows firefighting efforts
To contain the fires in Los Angeles, aircraft flew back and forth to…
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Federal worker resignations
According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, about 65,000 federal workers have…
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Archiving effort to preserve Data.gov
The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab is archiving Data.gov and making the…
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Partial Data Reflections
This week, I have a new tutorial for you and then we get into using data with baggage.
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Common four-digit PINs of others
About 1 in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN, based on an…
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Tracking daily federal expenditures
The Hamilton Project is tracking federal expenditures and updating daily:
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Download CDC data through Internet Archive
The data portal for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was…
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Geographic boundary data and microdata from Census Bureau is offline
As of this evening on February 4, 2025, the TIGER/Line shapefiles, which provide…