As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The…
Infographics
Telling stories with data and graphics.
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Government shutdown, other industries provided for scale
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Border wall progress chart
Denise Lu for The New York Times provides a quick overview of the…
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Kernel density estimation explainer
Matthew Conlen provides a short explainer of how kernel density estimation works. Nifty.…
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Top NBA player by zone
Kirk Goldsberry is back at ESPN. I put this here mainly because it’s…
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Modern reproduction of 1847 geometry books
Euclid’s Elements is a series of 13 books produced in 300 BC that…
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Falling ticket prices for longer flights
Based on data from Expedia, this is an interesting one from The Economist.…
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Same facts but different stories, an illustration
Multiple people can look at the same dataset and come out the other…
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Years of life lost due to breathing bad air
Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute estimated the number of…
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Color distribution in campaign logos
In news graphics, blue typically represents Democrat and red represents Republican. However, the…
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Inflated counts for cleared rape cases
Newsy, Reveal and ProPublica look into rape cases in the U.S. and law…
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How a meme grew into a campaign slogan
A meme that cried “jobs not mobs” began modestly, but a couple of…
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Faces of diverse midterms
As one might expect, many women, people of color, and L.G.B.T. candidates are…
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Bugs that live on you, in AR
I really like what The New York Times has been doing with augmented…
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Interactive comic to remember things better
In a time we commit less to memory and rely more on technology…
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Visualizing science
Jen Christiansen spoke about her extensive experience as a graphics editor for Scientific…
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News homepage design overview
As you click through the news, you can probably almost always figure out…
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Timeline of Earth
Here’s a fun piece by Andy Bergmann that shows the timeline of Earth.…
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xkcd: Curve-fitting messages
xkcd tells it like it is.…