Poyang Lake is China’s largest freshwater lake, but sand mining has changed its…
Infographics
Telling stories with data and graphics.
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Sand mining viewed from above
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Humorous charts to organize thoughts
When I’m feeling confused about what’s going on around me, I gravitate towards…
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Beautiful News, a book charting the good things in the world
From David McCandless and team, who you might know from such books as…
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Black mortality gap
Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area…
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Bitcoin power usage
You might have heard that Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity. More than…
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How vaccines can make a difference with the Delta variant
We see percentages for the vaccinated and unvaccinated, and people can easily misinterpret…
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Olympic champions versus past Olympians
With the 2020 Olympics wrapped up, The New York Times raced this year’s…
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Science behind running fast vs. running far
From The New York Times, the combination of video, motion graphics, and charts,…
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Visual guide to redistricting
Gerrymandering continues to be an important thread that I think many people still…
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New Olympic sports explained
The 2020 Summer Olympics are here, so ’tis the season for experimental visual…
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Olympic event visual explainers
With the Olympics starting on Friday, The New York Times started their coverage…
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Rise of K-pop
K-pop seems to be inescapable these days, which really confuses me. Marian Liu,…
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How long it takes a ball to drop on various Solar System bodies
James O’Donoghue made this straightforward animation that shows how long it takes for…
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How big tech grew by acquiring small tech
Big tech — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook — got big and then…
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Joy Generator
NPR put together a set of stories, videos, and interactives about bringing more…
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How the ultrarich use a Roth IRA to get more rich
ProPublica continues their analysis of an anonymous IRS tax records dump. In their…
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Passing restrictive voting bills
Bloomberg used a Sankey diagram to show the path of over a thousand…
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Welcome to heat dome
It’s hot here in the western United States, and it’s only mid-June. From…