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Comparing U.S. coronavirus case rates to other hot spots

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, Lauren Letherby, New York Times, scale, scrollytelling

The numbers are high here in the United States, and at this point,…
A million dollars vs. a billion visualized with a road trip

Data Art / money, road trip, scale, Tom Scott

A million dollars. A billion dollars. The latter is 1,000 times more than…
Scale of Bloomberg net worth

Infographics / Bloomberg, Mother Jones, net worth, scale

While we’re on the topic of Mike Bloomberg’s money, here’s another view from…
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Big Money You Can Relate To (The Process #76)

The Process / money, scale

This week, a few projects went up on the internets about money and spending, each with different goals and approaches. In this issue of The Process, we look at each more closely.
Federal budget scaled to per person dollars

Statistics / Alicia Parlapiano, budget, Quoctrung Bui, scale, Upshot

For The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui scaled down the federal budget…
Billionaire’s spending scaled to your net worth

Statistics / money, scale, Washington Post, wealth

We hear about billionaires spending millions of dollars on ads, acquisitions, etc. It…
Scale of Australia bushfires shown with unit charts

Infographics / Australia, fire, Reuters, scale

Outside of Australia, it can be a challenge to get a grasp of…
Scale of space browser

Infographics / Neal Agarwal, perspective, scale, space

I always enjoy me some scale of space graphics. Neal Agarwal made an…
All of the plastic bottles purchased in a day, Eiffel Tower for scale

Infographics / plastic, Reuters, scale

Millions of plastic bottles are purchased every day around the world. What does…
Scale of Star Wars characters and ships

Infographics / scale, Star Wars

It’s the scale of significant Star Wars characters, objects, and ships from Episode…
Scale of tens

Infographics / scale

I’m always up for some scaled perspective. From David Packer:

Anyone need a…
Real-time speed of light from Earth to Mars

Infographics / light, NASA, scale, speed

Hurry up, light. We’re gonna be late:

By James O’Donoghue, the animation shows…
Government shutdown, other industries provided for scale

Infographics / government, New York Times, scale, shutdown

As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The…
Endangered species that could fit in a train car

Infographics / animals, endangered, Guardian, scale

There are endangered species where the remaining few in the world could fit…
Scale of the California wildfires

Maps / Axios, California, fire, Lazaro Gamio, scale

The Mendocino Complex Fire, now the largest in California ever, continues to burn.…
Scale comparison of wildfires

Maps / California, fires, scale, Washington Post

The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…
Mass exodus at human scale

Infographics / human, scale

Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…
Measuring things with ships

Infographics / scale

We might be in an age of big data, but people have been…
Solar System in a bottle

Data Art / scale, space

From Little Planet Factory, a Solar System in a bottle made to scale:…
Scale of Aleppo against Berlin and London

Maps / Aleppo, scale

A lot of people around the world including myself don’t quite understand the…

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