Use color to reinforce or add another layer of meaning to a regular line chart.
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How to Make a Line Chart with a Color Gradient in R
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Figure skating animated jumps
Figure skater Nathan Chen set a world record with his performance in the…
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Improving electric vehicle adoption rates
Gas-powered vehicles contribute a big part of total carbon production, so to get…
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Bubble tea combinations, a visual breakdown
Walk into a boba shop and usually you’ll see a large menu that…
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Accuracy of groundhog weather prediction
For FiveThirtyEight, Simran Parwani and Kaleigh Rogers compared Groundhog Day predictions against actual…
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Editing Carefully and That White House Bar Chart with the Weird y-axis – The Process 175
The White House posted a chart with a messed up y-axis. Intentional or no?
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When There Were More Deaths Than Births in the U.S.
The two counts have been getting closer to each other. The past couple of years accelerated the process.
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Charts showing Tom Brady’s standout career
Tom Brady announced his retirement from the National Football League, which ends a…
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Crisis Text Line and data sharing
Crisis Text Line was sharing data with a for-profit business started by its…
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Crypto volatility charts
One of the attractions of crypto is that values can swing into the…
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Diversity of federal judge picks, compared by president
Adrian Blanco for The Washington Post used squares connected at the corners to…
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A game to gerrymander your party to power
Ella Koeze, Denise Lu, and Charlie Smart for The New York Times made…
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Questioning Novak Djokovic’s Covid tests, based on data
Tennis player Novak Djokovic is not vaccinated against the coronavirus, and as a…
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Chicken egg color spectrum
Eggs aren’t always white, which is oddly calming in this photo by way…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, January 2022 Roundup
Here’s the good stuff for January.
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Spotting spurious correlations in health news
When it comes to diet and health, you might see one day that…
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How Much Americans Make
Median income only tells you where the middle is. The distributions of income are a lot more interesting.
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Optimized Wordle solver
In case you’re not so good with the words, but feel the social…
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Scale of the Tonga eruption
Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr used satellite imagery to show the scale of…
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How N95 masks work
In efforts to reduce further spread of the virus, the US is set…