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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, March 2022 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for March.
Climate spiral to show temperature change

Statistical Visualization / Ed Hawkins, NASA, temperature

Say what you will about circular visualization, but the spiral plays. This one…
Defining color palettes for all your charts

Design / color, Datawrapper, Lisa Charlotte Muth, style guide

Selecting a color palette for a single chart can be tricky, which is…
Most people think their employers don’t care about their well-being

Statistical Visualization / Gallup, pandemic, well-being, work

Based on polls by Gallup, almost half of U.S. employees thought their employers…
Potential coronavirus mutations

Infographics / amino acids, coronavirus, mutation, New York Times

For NYT Opinion, researchers Sarah Cobey, Jesse Bloom, and Tyler Starr, along with…
Charting all the vehicles of James Bond

Infographics / Baryon Design, James Bond, vehicles

Baryon Design collated data for all the vehicles James Bond used across all…
Intercepted Russian radio communications

Infographics / New York Times, radio, Russia, war

The New York Times analyzed Russian radio communications near Kyiv. The unencrypted transmissions,…
Partisan excess deaths

Statistical Visualization / Axios, coronavirus, partisanship

Excess deaths is the difference between expected deaths based on historical data and…
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Double Check Twice, Edit Once – The Process 182

The Process / editing, questions

Be skeptical of your data in the beginning to save time in the end.
Pollution by the rich versus poor

Maps / Bloomberg, climate, wealth

Based on estimates from the World Inequality Lab, Bloomberg shows how wealthier individuals’…
Days since record-high temperatures

Maps / climate, Pudding, temperature

Here’s a fun/alarming weather map from The Pudding. Using data from the Applied…
Total refugees from Ukraine, compared to other countries

Statistical Visualization / New York Times, refugees, scale, Ukraine, war

Millions of Ukrainians (over three million as of this writing) have left their…
Who Takes Care of the Kids, By Household Income

Data Underload / childcare

Higher income usually means more childcare, and lower income usually means less.
Imports to Russia from countries that imposed sanctions and not

Statistical Visualization / imports, Russia, sanctions, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam, Youjin Shin and Alyssa Fowers plotted…
US spending on Ukraine

Statistical Visualization / spending, Ukraine, Upshot, war

For NYT’s The Upshot, Bianca Pallaro and Alicia Parlapiano break down the United…
Sunrise times with permanent Day Light Saving

Maps / daylight saving, sunrise, Washington Post

Changing the clocks twice a year can be a hassle, so some people…
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For Your Own Approval – The Process 181

The Process / learning, rules

Eventually you gotta make the charts for yourself and not for some expert’s approval.
Abortion restrictions in the U.S. mapped

Maps / abortion, FiveThirtyEight

For FiveThirtyEight, Anna Wiederkehr and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, with illustrations by Nicole Rifkin, delve…
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How to Make Cartograms in R

Tutorials / R

While the reshaped geography doesn’t work all the time, the use of size to show data can be more intuitive in some cases.
Your place in the world population

Statistical Visualization / age, population, World Data Lab

Population.io by World Data Lab asks your birthday, country of residence, and gender.…

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