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New Orleans power outage seen via satellite imagery

Maps / Hurricane Ida, lights, NASA, outage

After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans experienced power outages. The NASA Earth Observatory show…
How Humans Judge Machines

Statistics / book, interaction, machines

How Humans Judge Machines is an academic publication covering the results of experiments…
Tracking wildfires in the west

Maps / New York Times, tracker, wildfire

Wildfires continue to burn in the western United States. The New York Times…
AI-generated movie posters

Data Art / AI, movies, neural network, Noah Veltman

Noah Veltman fed an AI movie descriptions and made it generate images. The…
Repulsive curves

Visualization / curves, optimization, research

Chris Yu, Henrik Schumacher, and Keenan Crane from Carnegie Mellon University are working…
Lightning algorithm

Statistical Visualization / algorithm, Matt Henderson, Numberphile

Matt Henderson on Numberphile shows off a “lightning algorithm” which is actually a…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, August 2021

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for August.
Cycle of Many, a 24-hour snapshot for a day in the life of Americans

Data Underload / time use

This is a 24-hour snapshot for a day in the life of Americans.
Machine learning explained at five difficulty levels

Statistics / Hilary Mason, machine learning, Wired

For their 5 Levels series, Wired brought in Hilary Mason to explain machine…
Diversity within the Asian population

Maps / Asian, diversity, New York Times

Robert Gebeloff, Denise Lu and Miriam Jordan for The New York Times looked…
Inflation isn’t that exciting

Statistical Visualization / inflation, New York Times

For NYT Opinion, Josh Bivens and Stuart A. Thompson argue that you don’t…
NBA carry jobs

Statistical Visualization / basketball, Pudding, Russell Goldenberg

With professional basketball, we often hear about carry jobs. There’s one star player…
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Different Points of View from the Same Data – The Process 153

The Process / purpose, questions, tradeoffs

It still amazes me that you can give multiple people the same dataset and the results can vary depending on questions, goals, and audience.
Daily Routine, 2020

Data Underload / routine, time use

After looking at how much time we spent on daily activities in 2020, let’s look at when we spent our time.
Generative art with R

Software / generative art, R

Generative art seems to be having a moment right now, so it’s only…
How vaccines can make a difference with the Delta variant

Infographics / coronavirus, Delta variant, Lauren Letherby, New York Times, vaccination

We see percentages for the vaccinated and unvaccinated, and people can easily misinterpret…
Multiracial people counted in the census

Statistical Visualization / census, multiracial, NPR

Using unit charts, NPR shows the number of people who identify with each…
Race and ethnicity map of dots

Maps / census, CNN, population, race

CNN goes with the dot density map for their first pass on the…
Shift in white population vs. people of color

Maps / census, New York Times, race

The New York Times go with the angled arrows to show the shifts…
Maps of racial population change

Maps / census, race, Washington Post

Using their peaks and valleys metaphor, The Washington Post shows the shift in…

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