Jul 8, 2021
Welcome to issue #147 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 finite years, the long game, and learning visualization at an older age. Become a member for access...
Jul 8, 2021
ProPublica continues their analysis of an anonymous dump of tax records, this time with a focus on billionaire sports owners: The law favors people who are rich because they own things over people who are rich because they make a high income from their work. Wages —...
Jul 8, 2021
Big tech — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook — got big and then got bigger with acquisitions of smaller companies. The Washington Post took a comprehensive look at all of the acquisitions over the years: They all followed a similar pattern. First, they...
Jul 7, 2021
Ian Leahy and Yaryna Serkez for NYT Opinion look at income and tree canopy in major cities. Higher median income neighborhoods correlate with cleaner and cooler air. Tags: income, New York Times, trees
Jul 6, 2021
PhotoChrome is a straightforward tool that lets you use search terms to find a color palette. Just enter a query, and it spits out a color scheme of hex values based on matching images. It’s like Picular from a few years ago but more focused with a copy-paste....
Jul 2, 2021
Aerial photographer Lior Patel followed a herd of sheep in Yokneam. The results are much more interesting than they sound. [via Colossal] See also the work of Tim Whittaker who produced a video of the same ilk. I don’t know what to call it, but I am very much...
Jul 1, 2021
Welcome to issue #146 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 one of my least favorite types of visualization: the chart meant for analysis standing in for a...
Jul 1, 2021
NPR put together a set of stories, videos, and interactives about bringing more joy into your life, which of course is always welcome. Tags: joy, NPR
Jun 30, 2021
FlowingData turned 14 years old last week. Is that old? It feels old. The site started as a sandbox to put class projects. Flat HTML files. JPEG files. Google Maps placemarkers. Flash. Vanilla JavaScript. As I studied from across the country, it turned into a place to...
Jun 30, 2021
Introduction to Modern Statistics by Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin is a free-to-download book: Introduction to Modern Statistics is a re-imagining of a previous title, Introduction to Statistics with Randomization and Simulation book. The new book puts a...
