Nathan Yau

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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – July 2020 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for July.
What schools might look like if students go back

Infographics / coronavirus, New York Times, school

Dana Goldstein, with illustrations by Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, imagines what school might look like…
What YouTube recommendations look like for others

Statistics / recommendations, YouTube

Watch enough YouTube, and you end up in a bubble of videos catered…
Tracking what happens to police after use of force on protestors

Statistics / force, police, ProPublica, protest

You’ve probably seen the videos. ProPublica is tracking to see what happens after:…
Tic-Tac-Toe the Hard Way is a podcast about the human decisions in building a machine learning system

Statistics / Google, machine learning, podcast, Tic-Tac-Toe

From Google’s People + AI Research team, David Weinberger and Yannick Assogba build…
Spacecraft orbits

Infographics / Jonathan Corum, New York Times, orbit, space

For The New York Times, Jonathan Corum illustrated the dozens of spacecraft orbiting…
If the unemployed lose $600 per week

Statistical Visualization / benefit, coronavirus, Ella Koeze, New York Times, scrollytelling, unemployment

A $600 per week benefit expires for the unemployed at the end of…
Defining ’90s music, based on song recognition

Statistical Visualization / music, Pudding

In search of songs that define music in the 1990s, Matt Daniels and…
Wearing masks and infection rate

Infographics / Connie Jin, coronavirus, mask, NPR

Studies suggest that wide adoption of masks can reduce the spread of the…
Comparing U.S. coronavirus case rates to other hot spots

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, Lauren Letherby, New York Times, scale, scrollytelling

The numbers are high here in the United States, and at this point,…
Visualizing periodicity with animations

Design / animation, d3js, periodicity, Pierre Ripoll

Pierre Ripoll provides several ways to visualize periodicity using animation. Moving dots, rotating…
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Maybe They’re Just Not Good at Charts Yet (The Process 099)

The Process / Georgia, learning, misleading

This week, people were taking a closer look at the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Covid-19 status page (again), which led to an unnecessary pile-on.
Park sounds before and during the pandemic

Maps / coronavirus, machine learning, MIT Senseable City Lab, park, sound

With lockdown orders arounds the world, places that we’re allowed to go sound…
Remote work and industry

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, remote, Reuters, Sarah Slobin, work

Some industries are more compatible with remote work than others. Jonathan I. Dingel…
Understanding Covid-19 statistics

Statistics / coronavirus, ProPublica, teaching, uncertainty

For ProPublica, Caroline Chen, with graphics by Ash Ngu, provides a guide on…
This Age is the New Age

Data Underload / age, Google, search

30 is the new 20. Wait. 40 is the new 20. No, scratch…
Unemployment for different groups

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, Lena Groeger, ProPublica, unemployment

Unemployment has hit the United States hard over the past several months, for…
Words used to describe men and women’s bodies in literature

Infographics / body, Erin Davis, gender, Liana Sposto, literature, Pudding, words

Authors tend to focus on different body parts for men and women, and…
Where people are wearing masks

Maps / coronavirus, mask, Upshot

NYT’s The Upshot ran a survey through the data firm Dynata asking people…
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Automatic Visualization is Still Not Useful (The Process 098)

The Process / automation

There were rumblings this week about visualizing data automatically. Got a dataset? Plug it in to some software, and you’ve got that amazing visualization you’ve been looking for. Just like magic. That’s always the promise at least.

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