Dec 27, 2021
Magnus Carlsen continued to assert his dominance at the World Chess Championship. FiveThirtyEight broke down Carlsen’s dominance in the final match with Ian Nepomniachtchi with a series of difference charts. In the quick view, you see it was either a draw or a...
Dec 24, 2021
Many colleges use virtual proctoring software in an effort to reduce cheating on tests that students take virtually at home. But the software relies on facial recognition and assumptions about the proper testing environment. YR Media breaks down the flaws and even...
Dec 23, 2021
Based on data from autonomous sensors floating in the oceans, researchers are able to model the flows and characteristics of ocean currents in more detail than ever before. For The New York Times, Henry Fountain and Jeremy White show how the shifts have unwelled...
Dec 22, 2021
When you have many categories, use ridgelines to create an extremely compact visualization where you can easily identify major patterns and outliers. They are especially useful to display surges in mostly flat data series. Become a member for access to this —...
Dec 22, 2021
The COVID-19 Online Visualization Collection is a project to catalog Covid-related graphics across countries, sources, and styles. They call it COVIC for short, which seems like a stretch for an acronym and a confusing way to introduce a project to people. But, it...
Dec 21, 2021
NASA is launching the James Webb Space Telescope on December 22, 2021 with an objective to collect data on light from 13.8 billion light-years away. Using 3-D models from NASA, Rahul Mukherjee and Lorena Iñiguez Elebee for The Los Angeles Times show how the $10...
Dec 20, 2021
Zach Levitt and Bonnie Berkowitz for The Washington Post mapped and animated the natural and weather disasters from 2021. Differing from the 2019 version by Tim Meko, they framed it by month, which let them start with floods in January, through the storms in March,...
Dec 17, 2021
Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah, Jeffrey M. Zacks, and Jessica Hullman published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest an expansive review of what researchers know so far about how visualization works: Effectively designed data...
Dec 17, 2021
You know it’s the holiday season when Mariah Carey starts singing about wanting you for Christmas. The Washington Post goes into why we listen to the same songs every year: Holiday music burrows into a sweet spot in our brains’ wiring, said Brian Rabinovitz, a...
Dec 16, 2021
Welcome to issue #169 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members about how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I’m walking through the small steps I take to make a relatively straightforward chart more informative. Become a...
