Aug 12, 2021
Welcome to issue #152 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members about how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I was thinking about visualizing ranges instead of just summary statistics like mean and median. Become a member for access...
Aug 11, 2021
Circle packing in visualization is a way to arrange circles in a fixed space so that none of the circles overlap, and if you were to increase the radius of any circle, it’d overlap with a neighbor. This can be a useful method to have in your toolbox to make...
Aug 10, 2021
Most people are familiar with the file-and-folder view. Sort alphabetically, date, or file type, and scroll up and down. This works well when you know what you’re looking for, but sometimes you could use a quick overview of what a codebase looks like. Amelia...
Aug 10, 2021
As A.J. Oconnell said in 2016, “Educators still use “adaptive” and “personalized” learning interchangeably. Does it matter?” In June of 2015, leaders in adaptive learning hashed out the definitions of personalized and adaptive...
Aug 9, 2021
With the 2020 Olympics wrapped up, The New York Times raced this year’s medal winners against previous medalists to provide context for the new records set in Tokyo. The simplified style of the animations gave me Sega Game Gear flashbacks. NYT made similar...
Aug 6, 2021
The Wall Street Journal tested out the TikTok algorithm with bots to see how quickly the app converged towards a user’s pre-specified interests. As viewing time of videos as the main signal, and to nobody’s surprise (I think), it only took a couple of hours for TikTok...
Aug 5, 2021
From The New York Times, the combination of video, motion graphics, and charts, packaged tightly in a scrollytelling format, clearly shows the differences. Tags: New York Times, Olympics, running
Aug 4, 2021
Gerrymandering continues to be an important thread that I think many people still don’t understand, mostly because it’s called gerrymandering. The Guardian provides a visual guide to explain how creative redistricting can lead to favorable votes. If you’re still not...
Aug 3, 2021
Our everyday routines changed over the past year, and with the 2020 American Time Use Survey, we can see by how much.Read More
Aug 2, 2021
Elian Peltier and Josh Holder for The New York Times highlight the vaccination rates increasing in Europe while the United States rate stalls: Europe has plenty of people who distrust the shots and their governments, but vaccine resistance in the United States is more...
