I’m not sure there’s any way to really understand the scale of the…
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Scale of black holes
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Drop rain anywhere in the world and see where it ends up
One of my favorites of the year, Sam Learner’s River Runner shows you…
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Analysis of Facebook groups before January 6
The Washington Post and ProPublica analyzed Facebook group posts that disputed election results:…
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What the omicron numbers tell us and do not tell us
May Louise Kelly for NPR spoke briefly with biostatistics professor Natalie Dean on…
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False positives with prenatal tests for rare conditions
Sarah Kliff and Aatish Bhatia for NYT’s The Upshot look at the uncertainty…
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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2021
I looked back and picked my favorite projects for 2021. It was a long year.
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Visualization Tools and Resources, December 2021 Roundup
In the last roundup of 2021, here’s the good stuff for December.
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Church of the 95% Confidence Interval
This is Hallgrímskirkja, a church in Reykjavík, Iceland. It will now also be…
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David Rumsey Map Center, cataloging historical works
The David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford houses hundreds of thousands of maps…
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Anonymized data is rarely anonymous
Justin Sherman for Wired points out the farce that is anonymized data:
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Covid-19 mortality before and after vaccine eligibility
Denise Lu and Albert Sun for The New York Times show the shifts…
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xkcd: Unknowable truth
xkcd makes Statistics so fulfilling. George E. P. Box comes to mind.…
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World Chess Championship in charts
Magnus Carlsen continued to assert his dominance at the World Chess Championship. FiveThirtyEight…
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Virtual proctoring simulation
Many colleges use virtual proctoring software in an effort to reduce cheating on…
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Shifting currents and melting ice in the Antarctic
Based on data from autonomous sensors floating in the oceans, researchers are able…
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A catalog of all the Covid visualizations
The COVID-19 Online Visualization Collection is a project to catalog Covid-related graphics across…
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Launching a telescope to explore the Big Bang
NASA is launching the James Webb Space Telescope on December 22, 2021 with…
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Mapping the weather disasters of 2021
Zach Levitt and Bonnie Berkowitz for The Washington Post mapped and animated the…
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What works in visualization, scientifically speaking
Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah, Jeffrey M. Zacks, and Jessica…
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Why we listen to the same Christmas songs
You know it’s the holiday season when Mariah Carey starts singing about wanting…
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