Leland Wilkinson passed away on Friday, according to his daughter Amie. In visualization…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Leland Wilkinson, creator of The Grammar of Graphics, passed away
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Most used emoji for the year
I am told people use these things called emoji in their messages to…
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Stephen Curry career threes compared to other players
Stephen Curry is about to break the record for number of three-pointers made…
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Emissions and energy usage from Ethereum network
It seems clear that Ethereum (and other cryptocurrencies) in its current state is…
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Rapidly growing African cities
In a multi-faceted piece, The Washington Post described the rapidly growing cities in…
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Inflation in the context of age generations
When you compare the price of things today against prices one year ago,…
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All the provisions in the Build Back Better bill
For NYT’s The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui outlined all of the…
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Increased maternal death in the United States
While still relatively rare, maternal mortality in the United States increased over the…
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Job growth was underestimated
Andrew Van Dam for The Washington Post used a bar chart with corrections…
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Partisan gap in Covid death counts
David Leonhardt for The New York Times looked at the partisan gap for…
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Palm oils and rainforest destruction
Palm oil is in our food, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, and biofuels, but it…
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Painbow color scale
xkcd poked fun at the sometimes questionable color choices of researchers.…
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Rising prices of everything
Using Consumer Price Index, Alyssa Fowers and Rachel Siegel for The Washington Post…
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Check the frequency of salmonella in your chicken
The USDA recommends that you cook your chicken to at least 165°F to…
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Bend the emissions curve
There has been progress since the Paris climate agreement in 2014, but there’s…
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Drought extent by region
For Scientific American, Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis charted drought extent by region…
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Spending bill in a treemap box
Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano for NYT’s The Upshot broke down a Democrat…
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Treemap tour of political donations
The Digital Story Innovation Team for ABC News in Australia looked at political…