Oct 22, 2021
Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano for NYT’s The Upshot broke down a Democrat spending proposal. I like the lead-in treemap that shows the proposed components and the box that it needs to squeeze into: I’ve seen treemaps that transition into...
Oct 21, 2021
Welcome to issue #162 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 less interested in the data and more interested in aspects of it. Become a member for access to...
Oct 21, 2021
The New York Times used radar data to create a 3-D model of the Dixie fire smoke clouds: The raw data was collected every 10 minutes in radial sweeps around the radar stations, each at a higher altitude. The Times combined and reformatted the data using Py-ART, a...
Oct 20, 2021
I’m not sure how long this has been around, but the USPS has a tool where you can see the mail route in any geographic area. Just search for an address and you can see where they go. It’s meant for businesses interested in direct mail, so it also shows...
Oct 19, 2021
NASA Goddard visualized the point of view from the south pole of the Moon, based on years of data collection to map the Moon’s surface. The result is a data-based time-lapse that shows Earth moving up and down and long shadows because the run shines at a low...
Oct 19, 2021
When the internet started taking off I knew it would change the way we all lived. I see the same thing happening with the metaverse. I don’t say I think it’s the best way to move forward but they didn’t ask me. Now is the time to start paying...
Oct 18, 2021
The Digital Story Innovation Team for ABC News in Australia looked at political donations from the gambling industry. The piece goes all-in with treemaps in a scrollytelling format to show categories and individual donations. It starts with an individual point and...
Oct 15, 2021
Most television shows don’t get past the first season, but there are some that manage to stick around. These are the 175 longest running shows on IMDb that have ratings.Read More
Oct 14, 2021
Welcome to issue #161 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members on how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week, I’m thinking about visualization that tries to do too much in a single view — when it’d be better to...
Oct 14, 2021
Yuhao Du, Jessica Nordell, and Kenneth Joseph used simulations to study the effects of small gender biases at entry level up to executive level. It doesn’t take much to skew the distribution. For NYT Opinion, Yaryna Serkez shows the simulation in action with...
