Big tech — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook — got big and then…
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How big tech grew by acquiring small tech
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Tree canopy and income
Ian Leahy and Yaryna Serkez for NYT Opinion look at income and tree…
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Find a color palette based on words
PhotoChrome is a straightforward tool that lets you use search terms to find…
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Sheep herding movements from above
Aerial photographer Lior Patel followed a herd of sheep in Yokneam. The results…
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Analytical Stand-in – The Process 146
There’s visualization for analysis. There’s visualization for presentation. There’s overlap between the groups, but the differences require a varied approach.
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Joy Generator
NPR put together a set of stories, videos, and interactives about bringing more…
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Still Flowing at 14
FlowingData turned 14 years old last week. Is that old? It feels old.…
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Introduction to Modern Statistics
Introduction to Modern Statistics by Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin is a free-to-download…
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Historical context for the heat in the Pacific Northwest
It’s been hot in the Pacific Northwest the past few days. NYT’s The…
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Average color of geographic areas
Based on satellite imagery, Erin Davis found the average color of places around…
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Mail slowdown
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy proposed new standards for first-class mail, which would slow…
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All the matches from Euro 2020 in one chart
To see all the matches from the group stage of Euro 2020 in…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, June 2021 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for June 2021.
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How the ultrarich use a Roth IRA to get more rich
ProPublica continues their analysis of an anonymous IRS tax records dump. In their…
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Scoring hospitals by billing quality
Using data collected by Johns Hopkins University, Michelle McGhee and Will Chase for…
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Delaying motherhood
The New York Times mapped birth rates, which are down almost everywhere, especially…
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Passing restrictive voting bills
Bloomberg used a Sankey diagram to show the path of over a thousand…
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India vaccine procurement compared to other countries
Prasanta Kumar Dutta and Manas Mishra reporting for Reuters on the slow rollout…
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Welcome to heat dome
It’s hot here in the western United States, and it’s only mid-June. From…
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Measuring centuries-old droughts through tree rings
To measure drought in the present day, we use data from sensors that…