Sep 13, 2021
The CDC released a chart that shows case, hospitalization, and death rates for fully vaccinated (blue) against not fully vaccinated (black). As you might expect, the rates for the fully vaccinated are much lower, especially for hospitalizations and deaths. Tags: CDC,...
Sep 13, 2021
The San Francisco Chronicle compares demographics in your neighborhood in 2020 against 2010. It’s a straightforward app that lets you enter an address (not just in California) and it shows you the changes at several geographic levels. I like how snappy it is...
Sep 10, 2021
Kim Moran-Jones quilted temperature minima and maxima in the UK, along with Covid-19 deaths on the perimeter in grayscale. Data and the physical fit well together. Tags: coronavirus, Kim Moran-Jones, physical, quilt
Sep 9, 2021
Welcome to issue #156 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members about how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I’m wondering if I were to start to learn visualization from the beginning, would I focus more on chart types or...
Sep 9, 2021
James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti teamed up for another book of maps, Atlas of the Invisible: Sometimes we miss what we can’t step back to see. Sometimes the invisible only appears with the creep of time. And sometimes, in the case of historical events, the visible...
Sep 8, 2021
Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area chart to show the difference between two mortality rates. Each dot represents 10 people, and they start as a random cloud. A transition to show rate by age lends focus to both an absolute and...
Sep 7, 2021
You might have heard that Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity. More than some countries. You might have wondered how that could be possible. The New York Times explains with a set of graphics and illustrations. Tags: Bitcoin, electricity, New York Times
Sep 3, 2021
We had to do a lot more from home in 2020. Based on the American Time Use Survey, we spent about 62% of our waking time at home. In contrast, we only spent about 50% in 2019. Here is the breakdown by activity on a weekday. For each year, I counted the total minutes...
Sep 2, 2021
Welcome to issue #155 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members about how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I’m thinking about all the times someone declared a bar chart would be better and wondering what proportion of those comments were...
Sep 2, 2021
After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans experienced power outages. The NASA Earth Observatory show the outages by comparing night lights on August 31, 2021 against night lights on August 9, 2021: VIIRS has a low-light sensor—the day/night band—that measures light emissions...
