Jul 21, 2021
Covid-19 cases in the United States were down, but they’re moving up again, mostly among the unvaccinated. Dan Keating and Leslie Shapiro for The Washington Post break down the comparisons by state. A difference chart for each state shows the overall rate...
Jul 20, 2021
NYT’s The Upshot analyzed spin rate on pitches before and after enforcing a ban on sticky substances that provide more grip on the ball. The rule has been in place for decades but wasn’t enforced. However, there’s been more strikeouts than usual,...
Jul 19, 2021
K-pop seems to be inescapable these days, which really confuses me. Marian Liu, Youjin Shin, and Shelly Tan for The Washington Post explored the rise in popularity and what makes the songs and artists so popular. Tags: K-pop, Washington Post
Jul 16, 2021
James O’Donoghue made this straightforward animation that shows how long it takes for a ball to drop one kilometer on different planets: It might be surprising to see large planets have a pull comparable to smaller ones at the surface, for example Uranus pulls...
Jul 15, 2021
Welcome to issue #148 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members about how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I’m remembering to start an analysis with the basics — to get over the initial hump — and then generate...
Jul 15, 2021
When countries gained access to vaccines, there was an initial burst of vaccinations, but the rate leveled off in most places. Then a variant arrives, and an incentive or another push for vaccinations increases the rate. Reuters looks at the rate shift in different...
Jul 14, 2021
Noah Kalina has been taking a picture of himself every day since January 11, 2000. He posted time-lapse videos in 2007, 2012, and 2020. Last year was the 20th of the project. Usually Kalina’s videos are a straight up time-lapse using every photo. But in this...
Jul 13, 2021
To show water levels in California’s drying reservoirs, The Washington Post used upside down triangles to represent each reservoir. I like the idea to use an encoding that kind of looks like a reservoir, but my brain can’t help but read the fill level through height...
Jul 12, 2021
Krisztina Szűcs used sets of animated triangles to show how each match played out. The triangles in the middle move up as each team scores, and the triangles on the side represent penalty kicks. Tags: Krisztina Szűcs, soccer
Jul 9, 2021
Paul Ford has been learning R to better understand the field of Statistics. The takeaway: Deep in its heart, R is a language for making charts, and it’s genuinely fun to go into its world: statistics, natural sciences, sociology — all right there. You will never pry...
