Oct 14, 2021
Vox shows how the 3-point line is “breaking” the game. The basic math says a 3-point shot is more efficient for scoring points than a 2-point shot if the team can make a high enough percentage of attempts. It’s why the mid-range shot has fallen out...
Oct 13, 2021
When plotting Russian election results, a structured grid patterns appear. From The Economist: When Dmitry Kobak and Sergey Shpilkin, two researchers, analysed the results, they found that an unusually high number of turnout and vote-share results were multiples of...
Oct 12, 2021
Nightingale is a publication from Data Visualization Society that offers more depth for many topics in the field of visualization. They’re working on a print magazine of the same name. Subscribed. Tags: magazine
Oct 11, 2021
We often hear about increased CO2 in the context of global warming. Hayley Warren and Akshat Rathi for Bloomberg show why we should talk more about methane: In the fight against global warming, methane has flown under the radar for too long. But there’s increasing...
Oct 8, 2021
Spike maps use the height of spikes to encode data geographically. The format provides a similar effect to frequency trails where the layering looks 3-D-ish, except spikes are typically centered on an area instead of running parallel. Anyways, like most visualization...
Oct 7, 2021
Welcome to issue #160 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members on how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I imagine how one might start a freelance career in visualization these days — and probably provide terrible advice along...
Oct 7, 2021
The Washington Post, in an effort that I’m sure took more energy and time than it looks, compared U.S. abortion laws against those in other countries: In the last three decades, countries around the world have made it easier to legally get an abortion. In some...
Oct 6, 2021
Zan Armstrong, Ian Johnson, and Mike Freeman for Observable wrote a guide on analyzing time series data. Using an energy dataset, they show how asking different questions can lead to different findings and visualizations: These are stories about analyzing data that...
Oct 5, 2021
Inspired by a graphic on Reddit, Jim Vallandingham expanded the format for all the shows. Search for a show and get a heatmap for average ratings by season and episode. See how your favorite show went into the dumpster at the end or withstood the test of time. Nice....
Oct 4, 2021
Cloudflare describes how things looked from their point of view the day that Facebook, along with its other properties, went down. From the Border Gateway Protocol, which defines routing information: A BGP UPDATE message informs a router of any changes you’ve made to...
