Nov 12, 2021
We know the oceans are deep, but it’s difficult to grasp the scale of just how deep, because, well, it’s underwater. MetaBallStudios, a YouTube channel that focuses on perspective and 3-D animation, guides you through the depths of major bodies of water....
Nov 12, 2021
Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of tracking customer movement in stores: Complicating efforts to address privacy concerns is a lack of regulatory clarity. Without an overarching federal privacy law or even a shared definition of...
Nov 11, 2021
Welcome to issue #164 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I’m thinking we’re ready to come together as one and stop using “chartjunk” to...
Nov 11, 2021
Palm oil is in our food, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, and biofuels, but it has no flavor or color, so we’re not really aware of how much we use — on average 8 kilograms per year. Bloomberg explains why this is problematic, starting with the farmers, to...
Nov 10, 2021
Sergio Peçanha and Yan Wu for The Washington Post made a calculator that shows how much time you spend commuting in a year and what you could do with that time instead. The input, interaction, and calculations are straightforward. Just use the slider to specify your...
Nov 9, 2021
This chart shows the shifts since 1960.Read More
Nov 8, 2021
xkcd poked fun at the sometimes questionable color choices of researchers. Tags: color, humor, xkcd
Nov 5, 2021
Using Consumer Price Index, Alyssa Fowers and Rachel Siegel for The Washington Post show how the prices of everyday things rose since 2019. A set of baseline charts show lines moving up much more than one would hope, due to coronavirus and supply chain issues. Tags:...
Nov 4, 2021
Welcome to issue #164 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I’m thinking about how the many uses of visualization spawned about a million and one tools to view...
Nov 4, 2021
Valentina D’Efilippo, Arpad Ray, and Duncan Geere visualized and sonified Covid-19 rates and vaccinations in London Under the Microscope. Best viewed with headphones on. Geere on the sound: Here’s how it works. There are two melodic saw wave drones...
