More money on average means bigger houses, more expensive cars, and fancier restaurants. But what if you look at relative spending instead of total dollars?
Nathan Yau
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What People Spend Most of Their Money On, By Income Group, Relatively Speaking
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Clock shows percentage of life lived so far
Shortlife is a clock by artist Dries Depoorter that simply shows the percentage…
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TikTok algorithms work because of a lot of data
Ben Smith for The New York Times got an internal document that outlines…
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Family safety app sells location data to third parties
Life360 is a service that lets families keep track of where members are…
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AI-powered artwork app
Wombo Dream is a fun app that lets you enter some words to…
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Shrinking the Mercator projection to equal area
It’s been a while since we got our regular reminder that the Mercator…
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Bees use social distancing
Research by M. Pusceddu et al. shows that honeybees use social distancing when…
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Emissions and energy usage from Ethereum network
It seems clear that Ethereum (and other cryptocurrencies) in its current state is…
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FlowingData Shop is Open
I’m opening the print shop for a few days. Get your order in,…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, November 2021 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for November.
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Rapidly growing African cities
In a multi-faceted piece, The Washington Post described the rapidly growing cities in…
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Bird power rankings
Using data from Project FeederWatch, which is a community tracking project to count…
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Thanksgiving Ravine
I scraped my inbox when I got a bunch of emails on Cyber…
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Simpson’s Paradox in vaccination data
This chart, made by someone who is against vaccinations, shows a higher mortality…
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Inflation in the context of age generations
When you compare the price of things today against prices one year ago,…
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Map made of candy corn to show corn production
With candy corn as her medium, Jill Hubley mapped corn production in the…
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All the provisions in the Build Back Better bill
For NYT’s The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui outlined all of the…
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Calculating where you should live
Choosing a place to live is always full of trade-offs, but it’d be…
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Most Common Daily Routines
We all have our routines, but from person-to-person, the daily schedule changes a lot depending on your responsibilities.
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Euler diagram to illustrate base rate fallacy
Some people point out that vaccinated people are still hospitalized as a defense…
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