uncertainty

Connecting back to the real world is how we fill in the gaps.

For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia, Josh Katz and Margot Sanger-Katz show the…

Sarah Kliff and Aatish Bhatia for NYT’s The Upshot look at the uncertainty…

Andrew Van Dam for The Washington Post used a bar chart with corrections…

We see probabilities mentioned in the news, in weather forecasts, during sporting events,…

Visualization and perception researcher Lace Padilla was on the kid-centric show Mission Unstoppale…

In his new data-driven documentary, Neil Halloran digs into the uncertainty attached to…

People’s interpretation of a chart can change if you use differents words to describe it, even if the data stays the same.

The NYT election needles of uncertainty are back, and they’re about to go…

To visualize uncertainty in election forecasts, Matthew Kay from Northwestern University used a…

Look only at uncertainty and it can feel overwhelming. Look at just averages and it’s not enough information. So, smoosh them together.

The election is full of what-ifs, and the result changes depending on which…

The election is coming. FiveThirtyEight just launched their forecast with a look at…

For ProPublica, Caroline Chen, with graphics by Ash Ngu, provides a guide on…

Harry Stevens and John Muyskens for The Washington Post put you in the…

Medical tests do not always provide certain results. Quartz illustrated this with the…

Will Chase, who specialized in visualization for epidemiological studies in grad school, outlined…

Based on estimates from public health researcher James Lawler, The Upshot shows the…

Vicki Boykis riffing off the George Box quote, “All models are wrong, some…

These past few weeks, and especially this one, has been full of uncertainty. Probabilities, odds, and rates. In this issue of The Process we talk about ways to visualize this uncertainty.