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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – March 2025 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here are tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from that flew across my desk in March.
Minard Day

Statistical Visualization / Charles-Joseph Minard

Charles-Joseph Minard was born on March 27, 1781. Most who know the name…
Tariff tracker and economic effects

Infographics / Bloomberg, tariff, tracker

I guess we’re going to learn a good bit about tariffs over the…
Four stages of tariff progressions

Infographics / tariff, Washington Post

Tariff announcements seem to waver in tone and finality depending on the day.…
Turn map locations to slide puzzles

Maps / Ahmad Barclay, OpenStreetMap, puzzle

Any Map Puzzle by Ahmad Barclay lets you search for a location and…
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Aggregating Time Use Microdata

Tutorials / IPUMS, R

Being able to work with microdata from the American Time Use Survey, via IPUMS, means you can subset, filter, and categorize how you want. This makes it easier to explore questions.
Improved Relative Time, a comparison to many more things in the timeline

Infographics / baseline, Jonny Thaw, time

You’re familiar with AD and BC, but you probably haven’t heard of AiP…
23andMe files for bankruptcy

Data Sharing / 23andMe, ethics, privacy

23andMe, the business predicated on people sending cheek swabs to have their DNA…
Map of daylight gained in spring

Maps / Axios, daylight, Jacque Schrag, spring

Spring officially started last week here in the Northern Hemisphere. For Axios, Jacque…
Classic arcade game powered by Wikipedia edits

Infographics / game, Kevin Payravi, Wikipedia

What if the game Asteroids used Wikipedia edits to drive the volume and…
Student basketball transfers are really common

Statistical Visualization / basketball, college, transfer, Washington Post

For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Jesse Dougherty analyze the…
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Making of: When You Will Die

The Process / behind the scenes, mortality, simulation

This is how the mortality simulation machine gets made.
When You Will Die

Data Underload / mortality, simulation

With absolute certainty, you will die. When will it happen? That is a trickier question. But we can run simulations to explore the possibilities.
National history archived through chopstick sleeve designs

Design / Angie Wang, chopsticks, history, Japan, Letterform Archive

For Letterform Archive, designer Angie Wang examines a collection of chopstick sleeves as…
Animal sounds in different languages

Infographics / animals, Pudding, sound, Vivian Li

The purpose of onomatopoeia is to imitate sounds with words, so you might…
Top car brands in China, by market share

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, BYD, China, market share, Tesla

I like this chart set from Bloomberg that shows the top brands, ranked…
New York Times fills poll tracking gap left by FiveThirtyEight shutdown

Data Sources / data journalism, FiveThirtyEight, New York Times, polling

FiveThirtyEight is gone, and along with its visualization-centric projects, so is their poll…
Projections for NCAA basketball tournament, winning chances for each team

Infographics / Athletic, basketball, NCAA, projections, tournament

Leading up to the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament, the Athletic has a bracket…
Testing citation skills and overconfidence of AI chatbots

Artificial Intelligence / accuracy, chatbot, citations, Columbia Journalism Review

When you enter a query in traditional search engines, you get a list…
Wall of receipts is wall of inconsistent records

Mistaken Data / DOGE, government, spending, Upshot

The “Department of Government Efficiency” keeps a “Wall of Receipts” to signal transparency…

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