Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
Southwest flight cancellations
There were a lot of flight cancellations this week, but Southwest Airlines is…
VIS 2022 talks are online
With the holidays just about here, I’m sure there’s nothing you’d rather do…
xkcd on optimal bowling metrics
xkcd charted optimal bowling in terms of aim, speed, spin, and weight. This…
Gifts my true love gave to me over the 12 days of Christmas
From Reddit user neilrkaye. This is very important.…
Perfect seasons needed to get over .500 overall
Here’s a fun one from Philip Bump for The Washington Post. Bump simply…
Who pays for Twitter
Twitter Blue is a subscription service from Twitter that primarily provided premium features…
Retrofitting old British homes to improve energy efficiency
Speaking of old homes and energy efficiency in the UK, The Economist describes…
Upward mobility through a personal lens
Aaron Williams, for The Pudding, shows upward mobility through his own experiences, moving…
Republican and Democrat follower counts on Twitter
You might have heard that Elon Musk bought Twitter, and among the many…
Experimental Noisycharts sonifies data for improved accessibility
Nick Evershed, for The Guardian, describes Noisycharts, an experimental component for their in-house…
Shifts in European energy sources
Mira Rojanasakul, for The New York Times, dug into current and historical energy…
Role of luck in football wins
NFL Football Operations calculated how much luck has contributed to team wins and…
Exports through the Mississippi River
Drought has caused water levels to drop in the Mississippi River, which is…
Word cloud + Streamgraph = WordStream
I hear it all the time from chart purists. “I love the streamgraph!”…
Linear regression visual explainer
MLU-Explain continues with their visual explainers for machine learning and statistical concepts. Most…