Generative AI is readily accessible these days, which has led to an influx…
Nathan Yau
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Disconnect between generated and real beauty expectations
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Visualizing all the books in the world
To show a catalog of almost 100 million books in one view, phiresky…
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Rail transit and population density
In some cities, a large percentage of the population has access to public…
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Perceptron algorithm from the 1950s and its ties to LLMs
Welch Labs explains how the perceptron, an algorithm developed by Frank Rosenblatt in…
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Estimating the ‘laziness’ of federal workers
Some might have you believe that federal employees don’t put in the work.…
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Growing gender gap in ideology
For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch shows the gap between men and women in…
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Shifts in German election
German voters shifted away from the left in their general election this past…
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Natural System of Colours, a recreation of 18th century color wheels
In 1766, Moses Harris published The Natural System of Colours to demonstrate that…
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Government revenue and spending diagram
In case you’re wondering about government spending and budgets, USAFacts has a Sankey…
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Making of Defense Against Dishonest Charts
I published an interactive guide on reading charts, spotting the misleading ones, and visualizing data honestly. Here’s the process I used to get there.
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Ubiquity of the Gorton font
Marcin Wichary dives deep into the Gorton font, calling it the hardest working…
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Gulf of wherever you want
Most of the major map providers changed the name. MapQuest had a different…
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How tariffs work
I think I’ve read about tariffs more in the past month than I…
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$8 billion was actually $8 million in DOGE mistake
The DOGE site has a “wall of receipts” that claims $55 billion in…
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Heatmaps and Defining Color Scales
With color as the visual encoding, choose the scales that allow you to see actual patterns.
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Charting data that might disappear soon
The administration continues its takedown of data that it doesn’t agree with. To…
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150-year-olds probably not receiving Social Security benefits
The Department of Government Efficiency claims data in the Social Security Administration database…
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A life documented in weeks
Coming up on 50 years old, Gina Trapani mapped out her life so…
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Open letter from former Census Bureau director
Robert Santos, who resigned last month, wrote a heartfelt open letter to Census…
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DOGE wants access to IRS taxpayer data
For the Washington Post, Jacob Bogage and Jeff Stein report:
Under pressure from…