Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
An ongoing series about looking at the everyday through the eyes of data and charts.
Reviving the currently defunct Census-produced publication with current data.
Not everything has to be visualized. I do it anyway.
For various occupations, the difference between the person who makes the most and the one who makes the least can be significant.
These are my picks for the best of 2015. As usual, they could easily appear in a different order on a different day, and there are projects not on the list that were also excellent.
We almost always look at data through a screen. It’s quick and good for exploration. So is there value in making data physical? I played around with a 3-D printer to find out.
With wildfires burning in the western United States, smoke fills the air. This is an animation of the air quality during the past couple of months.
Here’s a chart to show you how long you have until you start to feel your age.
Data is an abstraction, and it’s impossible to encapsulate everything it represents in real life. So there is uncertainty. Here are ways to visualize the uncertainty.
Salaries vary by occupation. These charts show the spread.
The seven-year itch suggests that people grow dissatisfied with marriage …
See how common activities were for a given time of day, age, and sex.
People stay single longer, marry later, divorce less, and widow older.
A practical resource for beginners who want to visualize data for humans.
