Aug 20, 2021
With professional basketball, we often hear about carry jobs. There’s one star player who carries everyone else to a championship. Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding looked for the biggest carry jobs in NBA Finals history. Tags: basketball, Pudding, Russell...
Aug 19, 2021
Welcome to issue #153 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members on how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I was observing different points of view from the same data. It still amazes me that you can give multiple people the same...
Aug 19, 2021
After looking at how much time we spent on daily activities in 2020, let’s look at when we spent our time.Read More
Aug 18, 2021
Generative art seems to be having a moment right now, so it’s only appropriate that there’s an R package to help you make some. The aRtsy package by Koen Derks makes algorithms more straightforward to use. Set parameters and you’re off. Tags:...
Aug 17, 2021
We see percentages for the vaccinated and unvaccinated, and people can easily misinterpret or miscommunicate the results. It’s especially problematic when people are actively trying to confirm misconceptions. For The New York Times, Lauren Leatherby tries to...
Aug 16, 2021
Using unit charts, NPR shows the number of people who identify with each race or ethnicity: [A] different kind of breakdown can show how racial groups are becoming more heterogeneous. This graphic shows the number of people who said they identified with each race,...
Aug 16, 2021
CNN goes with the dot density map for their first pass on the 2020 decennial. Each dot represents a certain number of people depending on your zoom level. Color represents race or ethnicity. Does CNN have a limited color palette that they’re allowed to use? I...
Aug 13, 2021
The New York Times go with the angled arrows to show the shifts in racial population. The red-orange arrows show an increase in the share of white population, and the teal arrows show an increase in the share of people of color. Longer arrows mean a greater percentage...
Aug 13, 2021
Using their peaks and valleys metaphor, The Washington Post shows the shift in racial population between 2010 and 2020. The open triangles, one for each county, show population with width, population growth with height, and fastest-growing race or ethnicity with...
Aug 13, 2021
After a lot of angst over the past few years around undercount, representation, and anonymization, the Census Bureau released detailed data from the 2020 decennial census: The U.S. Census Bureau today released additional 2020 Census results showing an increase in the...
