As the 2024 Summer Olympics wrap up, medal trackers will fade from homepages…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Olympic medal tracker variations
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Two kinds of bar charts
Michael Correll describes two kinds of bar charts in the world. The first…
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Cryptocurrency-funded politics
Those who run cryptocurrency companies have much to gain from policies that favor…
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Where immigrants in the U.S. came from
A lot of immigration talk in the U.S. focuses on Mexico, but immigrants…
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Famine prevalence in different countries
Reuters explores famine around the world through the lens of starving children in…
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Conservatives lose UK election by a lot
For the New York Times, Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby show how the…
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Age differences between world leaders and the populations they serve
The ages of American presidential candidates are old when compared to the ages…
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Trendy baby name sounds
For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura…
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Heat tracker for the U.S.
It’s abnormally hot in a large portion of the United States, and it’s…
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Dr Pepper ties with Pepsi-Cola for number two soda
Dr Pepper steadily rose and Pepsi steadily declined over the past couple of…
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When feelings of nostalgia peak
YouGov surveyed 2,000 adults asking them when was the best and worst decades…
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Dashboard for L.A. Dodgers baseball
To keep track of performance, Matt Stiles made the Dodgers Data Bot, which…
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Shifting to batteries for electricity
To capture solar energy for use in the evening, batteries have grown in…
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Communal Plot, a shared coordinate space to see how your taste compares
PerThirtySix made a communal plot that asks for your opinion via scatterplot and…
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Genetic algorithm car race thingy
From the oldie-but-goodie department, this fun program uses a genetic algorithm to drive…
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Rise in prison death rates during the pandemic
The Marshall Project highlights research on excess mortality in U.S. prisons:
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Existing mortgages with lower rates than new ones
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing…
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Access to nature where you live
NatureQuant processes and analyzes satellite imagery to quantify people’s access to nature. They…