Nov 3, 2021
Based on five years of data from EPA models, ProPublica mapped areas in the United States where cancer risk is higher due to air pollution: In all, ProPublica identified more than a thousand hot spots of cancer-causing air. They are not equally distributed across the...
Nov 2, 2021
If you’ve taken classes that cover image processing, you’ve likely come across the Lenna image. It’s a headshot of Lena Forsén taken from Playboy Magazine in 1972. For The Pudding, Jennifer Ding, with Jan Diehm and Michelle McGhee, looked at use of...
Nov 1, 2021
The USDA recommends that you cook your chicken to at least 165°F to kill salmonella bacteria (time is also a factor), which appears to be more common than I would hope. ProPublica has a Chicken Checker so that you can find out. Look up the poultry product number on...
Oct 29, 2021
The IEEE VIS 2021 conference is running virtually this week, and there’s a lot of work that’s caught my eye but I haven’t had the chance to look through it all yet. One of those things is the alt.VIS workshop that lead into the conference. The papers...
Oct 28, 2021
Welcome to issue #163 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau and every month I collect tools and resources to help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for October....
Oct 28, 2021
There has been progress since the Paris climate agreement in 2014, but there’s still more to do. Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich for The New York Times look at the possible paths we could take. Tags: climate change, emissions, New York Times
Oct 28, 2021
Stacked area charts are a standard chart type that shows how a categorical distribution changes over time. There are packages that can do most of the work for you, but for a recent chart I found myself wanting more control over how the chart was drawn, which led me to...
Oct 27, 2021
For Scientific American, Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis charted drought extent by region using a grid of stacked bar charts. Each cell represents a year for a corresponding region, and color represents drought intensity. Compare this view to more map-centric...
Oct 26, 2021
Here’s how the distribution of genres has changed since 1945 up to present.Read More
Oct 25, 2021
Mona Chalabi has a new podcast Am I Normal? and it’s very good: We all want to know if we’re normal—do I have enough friends? Should it take me this long to get over my ex? Should I move or stay where I am? Endlessly curious data journalist Mona Chalabi NEEDS to...
