Sep 23, 2021
Derek Thompson for The Atlantic highlights recent research comparing mortality in America against rates in Europe: According to a new working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Americans now die earlier than their European counterparts, no...
Sep 22, 2021
ggplot2 provides sensible default settings for analysis, but when you make charts for a publication, you often need to match an existing style and shift focus to readability over exploration. Design around a message or results instead of leaving interpretation...
Sep 22, 2021
In fall 2020, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg planted a flag for each American who died from Covid-19. There were over a quarter of a million flags at the time. The art installation is back at the National Mall, but this time there are over 660,000 flags. The scale is...
Sep 21, 2021
For the employed, unemployed, and those not in the labor force, these charts — using an oldie but goodie visualization layout — show the percentage of people doing an activity over a day in 2020. Read More
Sep 17, 2021
Nightingale has a kid’s section with printable visualization activities. Get the kids started early while they absorb information like a sponge. Tags: kids, Nightingale
Sep 16, 2021
Welcome to issue #157 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members about how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I’m admiring how dots can be used to show both high granularity and overall patterns. Become a member for access to...
Sep 16, 2021
When I’m feeling confused about what’s going on around me, I gravitate towards making charts, so Michelle Rial’s book of charts, Maybe This Will Help: How to Feel Better When Things Stay the Same, resonates. It’s available for pre-order. Tags:...
Sep 16, 2021
From David McCandless and team, who you might know from such books as Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful has a new book on Beautiful News: Inspired by our ongoing Beautiful News project, the book surfaces and visualises the amazing, beautiful,...
Sep 15, 2021
Rachael Dottle, Laura Bliss and Pablo Robles for Bloomberg on how urban highways often split communities: By the 1960s, the neighborhood’s business core was gone, replaced by newly constructed Interstate 94. Homes that had been a short walk to the shops now overlooked...
Sep 14, 2021
Everyone gets a dot. You get a dot. And you get a dot. And you.Read More
