Nathan Yau

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Visualization Tools and Resources, October 2021 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for October.
Bend the emissions curve

Statistical Visualization / climate change, emissions, New York Times

There has been progress since the Paris climate agreement in 2014, but there’s…
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How to Make a Custom Stacked Area Chart in R

Tutorials / R

You could use a package, but then you couldn’t customize every single element, and where’s the fun in that?
Mapping the probable heat around the world

Maps / climate, global warming, Probable Futures, temperature

Earth is getting warmer, and the previously abstract concept seems to grow more…
Drought extent by region

Statistical Visualization / drought, Scientific American

For Scientific American, Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis charted drought extent by region…
Television Genres Over Time

Data Underload / genre, imdb, television

Here’s how the distribution of genres has changed since 1945 up to present.
Are you statistically normal?

Statistics / Mona Chalabi, normal, podcast

Mona Chalabi has a new podcast Am I Normal? and it’s very good:…
Spending bill in a treemap box

Statistical Visualization / government, spending, Upshot

Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano for NYT’s The Upshot broke down a Democrat…
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I Want to Visualize Aspects of the Data – The Process 162

The Process / audience, purpose, questions

When you visualize aspects of the data instead of just the data itself, what you show grows more obvious.
3-D rendering of Dixie fire smoke clouds

Maps / Dixie Fire, New York Times, radar, smoke

The New York Times used radar data to create a 3-D model of…
Search every USPS mail route

Maps / mail, routes, USPS

I’m not sure how long this has been around, but the USPS has…
A view from the Moon’s south pole

Infographics / moon, NASA, space, time-lapse

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NASA Goddard visualized the point of view from…
Treemap tour of political donations

Statistical Visualization / ABC News, contributions, politics, scrollytelling

The Digital Story Innovation Team for ABC News in Australia looked at political…
How the Longest Running Shows Rated Over Episodes

Data Underload / imdb, ratings, television

Most television shows don’t get past the first season, but there are some that manage to stick around. These are the 175 longest running shows on IMDb that have ratings.
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Keep Them Separated – The Process 161

The Process / separation, small

Not everything has to be in the visualization at the same time.
Simulating how just a little gender bias in the workplace can lead to big effects up the chain

Statistical Visualization / bias, gender, New York Times, work

Yuhao Du, Jessica Nordell, and Kenneth Joseph used simulations to study the effects…
How the 3-point line changed basketball

Infographics / basketball, Vox

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Vox shows how the 3-point line is “breaking”…
Possible cheating seen in a scatterplot

Statistical Visualization / cheating, Economist, election

When plotting Russian election results, a structured grid patterns appear. From The Economist:…
A data visualization magazine

Visualization / magazine

Nightingale is a publication from Data Visualization Society that offers more depth for…
Scientists with bad data

Mistaken Data / fake data, science, Tim Harford

Tim Harford warns against bad data in science:
Some frauds seem comical. In…

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