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Using estimates from the Database of Road Transportation Emissions, Nadja Popovich and Denise…

When the web was relatively new, things were more of a free-for-all. Everything…

Roger Peng discusses the importance of managing the relationships between people — analyst,…

Musician Kaki King’s daughter suffers from a condition (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) where her…

Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…

Data is a great vehicle for arguments, but the (not just visual) perception…

My son used to watch Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (a modern take on Mister…

This is what happens when there is a disconnect between data and what…

Ask yourself what the numbers represent.

We usually see Census data in aggregate. It comes in choropleth maps or…

Claire Cain Miller for the Upshot on when algorithms discriminate:
There is a…

Visualization tends to rest in the realm of efficiency and accuracy. From a…

The simple analysis is to approach data blind, as machine output. But this…

When it comes to storytelling, copious amounts of data often means lots of…

If you logged into Facebook the past couple of weeks, you saw your…

We read and hear numbers in the news all the time, but it…

Leave it to Robert Krulwich to bring us back to life in the…

Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows…