Natural diamonds require a lot of pressure and time, and then someone has…
Nathan Yau
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Falling cost of lab-grown diamonds
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Barren Land
In the conterminous United States, most of the barren land belongs to deserts and mountains in the west.
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Focusing Off Defaults
Default visualization settings are useful when it’s just you analyzing data. However, visual focus is better when it’s time to present.
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Music visualizer in the style of a Pong game
You know the classic game Pong with the paddles and ball that moves…
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Weight of cars and fatalities
The Economist examines car weight and fatalities in car crashes. In two-vehicle collisions,…
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Huetone for accessible color systems
There is no shortage of color-picking tools, but it seems there can never…
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Internationalization of K-Pop
K-pop grew mainstream-popular in countries outside South Korea over the past few years.…
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Basketball globe
Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, combined two joys — basketball and…
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Map of job gains and losses
To show the counties with more or fewer jobs when comparing 2023 to…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, August 2024 Roundup
Every month I collect tools and resources to help you make better charts. This is the good stuff for August 2024.
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Visualizing poverty levels with a plant metaphor
To show poverty in the Pacific Region between age groups, gender, and location,…
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Renting vs. Owning a Home as We Get Older
One-third of households are rented and the other two-thirds are owned or in the process. However, the difference between renting and owning changes with age.
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Air Quality Stripes
In a riff on Climate Stripes, which shows global temperature change as a…
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AI-based travel agent
In the latest of the genre I-followed-AI-advice-blindly-here-is-what-I-got, Ceylan Yeğinsu for the New York…
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Scammed out of life savings, a line chart
Annette Manes, a retired widow and single mother who saved by spending little,…
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Data GIF Maker lets you make animated GIFs with data
The Data GIF Maker is a fun tool from Google that lets you…
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Tracking time wasted scrolling
Ben Grosser made a personal mini-site that indicates whether or not he’s on…
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Unexpected Places
You spent time and effort on a data project and it ends up in unexpected places. Do you just shrug and let it pass or do you try to get a handle on the work so that it’s not misconstrued out of context?
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Maps of climate tipping points
The climate is changing, and researchers believe that after some point, there will…
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Superblocks, an urban planning compromise for cars and pedestrians
Living in city centers with little space to spend time outside and a…