Oct 1, 2021
Companies collect and aggregate location data from millions of people’s phones. Then that data gets sold in a multibillion-dollar market. Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng for The Markup report on who’s doing the collecting and where your data goes: Once a person’s...
Sep 30, 2021
Welcome to issue #159 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. This week I’m remembering what day it is and thinking about a backwards visualization critique that gives us something to look forward to....
Sep 30, 2021
Whether it’s because of experience, physical ability, or education level, some jobs tend towards a certain age of worker more than others.Read More
Sep 29, 2021
UnstableGround is a project from the Woodwell Climate Research Center that focuses on climate change in the Arctic: Climate change is transforming the Arctic, impacting people and ecosystems across this vast region. But because our climate system is connected...
Sep 29, 2021
Before you get into analysis and visualizing data with R, you need to know the basics. Steve Haroz wrote a guide on getting started: This book is a short introduction to the R language. It covers the basics of R that are not covered by analysis and visualization...
Sep 28, 2021
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Sep 27, 2021
Researchers evaluated 158 Covid-19 dashboards, assessing design, implementation, and usefulness. Marie Patino for Bloomberg CityLab reports: “All of these dashboards were launched very early in the pandemic,” said Damir Ivankovic, a PhD student at the University of...
Sep 24, 2021
Poyang Lake is China’s largest freshwater lake, but sand mining has changed its depth and structure, which messes up the ecosystem. Simon Scarr and Manas Sharma for Reuters used satellite imagery to show the scale and disruption of the mining activities. The...
Sep 23, 2021
Every month I collect tools and resources to help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for September 2021. Become a member for access to this — plus tutorials, courses, and guides.
Sep 23, 2021
For when you want to fill SVG polygons with patterns instead of or in combination with color, Thomas Michael Semmler has a copy-and-paste collection. It’s just the basics, but it’s a convenient reference that could provide a starting point at the least....
