Muir Way updates vintage relief maps with a third dimension. Pretty. The above…
Nathan Yau
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Vintage relief maps
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The Process 112 – Statistics Without Awareness, Virtual Reality, and a Bar Chart Race
Look around. Take it in.
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How to Make Symbol-based Glyph Charts, with R Examples
Using geometric shapes as an encoding can provide another dimension to your charts.
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Fires in the west and climate change
This is some advanced mapping and scrollytelling from the Washington Post. The piece…
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Decision tree for the presidential election result
While we’re on the topic of election scenarios, Kerry Rodden provides a radial…
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Using the FiveThirtyEight model, see how the election odds shift with different scenarios
With each model update, FiveThirtyEight runs 40,000 simulations, or what-ifs, to calculate the…
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Making map art in R
If you can make maps in your software and customize the aesthetics, you…
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Tips for not letting polls and forecasts occupy your mind for two weeks
For FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver provides tips to stay less stressed staring into the…
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Interactive data essays on climate change
In their second issue, Parametric Press focuses on climate change with a set…
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Data visualization in virtual reality
Virtual reality puts you in a digital world that can feel like a…
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More fire weather days coming
It’s been smoky this season. Based on research from Michael Goss et al.,…
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Lifelines
Using estimates from a report by the Well Being Trust and the Robert…
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The Process 111 – Excel Limit
A row limit in Microsoft Excel led to an undercount of Covid-19 cases in the thousands. The root of the problem goes past the software though.
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Covid-19 cases and state partisanship
From Dan Goodspeed, the bar chart race is back. The length of the…
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Visual tour through the technology hype cycle
The Gartner hype cycle is a graphical representation of where certain technologies are…
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Who Makes More Money
Someone mentioned that $400,000+ per year was commonplace in American households. That seemed like an odd comment.
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Exploration of 12 timelines along Sunset Boulevard
In 1966, artist Ed Ruscha published Every Building on the Sunset Strip, which…
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Making a convincing deepfake
For MIT Technology Review, Karen Hao looks into the process of artists Francesca…
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Reconstructing protests in Minneapolis using hundreds of livestreams
From a distance, it’s difficult to build an understanding of the scale and…
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NBA playoff win probabilities, animated over time
FiveThirtyEight publishes win probabilities for NBA games throughout the season. During the playoffs,…