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Coping with the big numbers

Infographics / comic, Connie Jin, coronavirus, NPR, scale

Connie Jin, who works for NPR and updates a Covid-19 dashboard, talks about…
Compare the scale of any area in the world

Maps / scale, Stamen

Riffing on the Ever Given Ever Ywhere, which lets you place the Ever…
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Relative Comparison – The Process 136

The Process / comparison, scale

In analysis and visualization, you’re often tasked with the “compared to what” question. Your approach will change the perspective.
Make the Ever Given get stuck anywhere

Maps / Ever Given, Garrett Dash Nelson, scale, Suez Canal

The Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal. It was refloated. So…
What if a giant banana was orbiting Earth

Infographics / banana, humor, scale, space

yeti dynamics imagined if a giant banana were orbiting Earth from the same…
Seeing CO2 is a playable data visualization

Infographics / carbon, environment, Extraordinary Facility, game, scale

Seeing CO2, by design studio Extraordinary Facility, is a playable data visualization that…
500,000 lives lost, an individual scale

Infographics / coronavirus, deaths, Reuters, scale

The United States passed the half million mark for confirmed Covid-19 deaths. It’s…
Tracking world’s biggest iceberg

Maps / iceberg, Reuters, scale

The world’s biggest iceberg, A68a, is on track to crash into a remote…
Mapping 250,000 people

Maps / coronavirus, deaths, scale, Washington Post

As we’ve talked about before, it can be hard to really understand the…
Covid-19 in your neighborhood

Maps / coronavirus, neighborhood, personalization, scale, Washington Post

With recorded U.S. Covid-19 deaths passing the 200k mark, somehow the number still…
Scale of the explosion in Beirut

Infographics / Beirut, explosion, Reuters, scale

There was an explosion in Beirut. It was big. How big? Marco Hernandez…
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…

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