Nov 23, 2021
We all have our routines, but from person-to-person, the daily schedule changes a lot depending on your responsibilities.Read More
Nov 22, 2021
Some people point out that vaccinated people are still hospitalized as a defense against getting vaccinated. But they ignore the inverse which compares the number of those who are not hospitalized. Someone (source?) made this Euler diagram to illustrate the inverse....
Nov 22, 2021
Statisticians David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters for The Guardian on reframing risk estimates: An earlier UKHSA study estimated two Pfizer/BioNTech doses gave around 99.7% (97.6% to near-100%) protection against Delta-infected hospitalisation, but after 20 weeks...
Nov 19, 2021
What is the best french fry shape? Curly of course. But Chris Williams took it a step further and used 3-D models of various fried potato forms to find out. It’s all about the ratio between crispy exterior and fluffy interior. Tags: 3-d, Chris Williams, french...
Nov 18, 2021
Welcome to issue #166 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week my attention span is hanging on to dear life as we head towards Thanksgiving here in the U.S. I’m also...
Nov 18, 2021
While still relatively rare, maternal mortality in the United States increased over the years. In most other developed countries, rates decreased over the same time period. From NYT Opinion: Over the past two decades, maternal mortality has increased almost 60...
Nov 18, 2021
Andrew Van Dam for The Washington Post used a bar chart with corrections to show new monthly estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for job growth: After the revisions, disappointing months like August looked a lot more like October, a month that was hailed as...
Nov 17, 2021
Pitch Interactive and the Census 2020 Data Co-op, supported by the Google News Initiative, made a tool that lets you easily map population shifts since 2010. It’s called Census Mapper. Built with journalists in mind, you can zoom in to the tract level and select...
Nov 16, 2021
David Leonhardt for The New York Times looked at the partisan gap for Covid deaths and cases. It keeps getting wider: The brief version: The gap in Covid’s death toll between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point. In...
Nov 15, 2021
This is a fun map by Matt Dzugan. Search for a city, and see the segments of highway in the United States that are headed that way: I set up thousands of queries to Google Maps, asking for directions from Point A to Point B and parsed its responses, looking for the...
