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Scrolling map on receipt paper
Aaron Koelker printed a six-foot long map on receipt printer earlier this year. He put it in a route sheet holder for more practical usage. Seems like a good end-of-world product, if you’re into that...
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Making illicit fentanyl
The process of making fentanyl might not be as complicated as one would hope. However, you might be surprised to know that illegal producers aren’t always consistent and can be sloppy, which is why...
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There’s a science to getting thousands of people to wait in line without things getting out of control. The Wall Street Journal spoke to crowd expert Brett Little to explain the different types of...
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Emotional overlap Venn diagrams
I’m hearing murmurs that the Venn diagram is making a comeback. Six Seconds made a pair-wise matrix to show the emotions that stem from combining the emotions from the Inside Out movie. Tags: emotion,...
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Two kinds of bar charts
Michael Correll describes two kinds of bar charts in the world. The first kind shows counts where you can apply a visual metaphor of stacking things. The more you stack, the higher the bar gets. The...
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Scale of dragons from House of the Dragon
Dragons are pretty big, I guess. (Please let me know if you know who made this.) Tags: fiction, House of the Dragon, scale
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Olympic medal tracker variations
As the 2024 Summer Olympics wrap up, medal trackers will fade from homepages for a couple years. You’ve probably seen a list or five by now where each row represents a country and four columns show the...
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Best NBA players in the Olympics, by country since the 1992 Dream Team
In 1992, when the Dream Team dominated basketball in the Olympics, the best players in the NBA were all from the United States. The league has grown more international since then. For Sportradar, Todd...
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Run speeds in the men’s 100-meter race
Noah Lyles won the men’s 100-meter, but he started as the slowest runner in the final. The New York Times superimposed shaded circles on the track, in combination with composite photos of the runners,...
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Uncertain risk behind climate change models
To demonstrate the level of uncertainty in using climate forecasting models, Bloomberg compared two models that estimate the same type of flood risk in the same geographic area. In the abstract, maybe...
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One million screenshots of the web’s homepages in a single layout
One Million Screenshots, by Urlbox, is a collection of 1,048,576 homepage screenshots in a browsable grid layout. Search for a website or browse to random ones. Sites are chosen based on rank in the...
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Sun vs. Moon, a game kind of
Neal Agarwal made a game of sorts where you either click for the sun or the moon. The points and the positions change based on how quickly you and others click in real-time. It’s so dumb. It’s so good....
View ArticleMeat industry olympic chart
Speaking of data projects in unexpected places, David Mora repurposed one of my alluvial diagrams on meat consumption over time in the video below. He uses a wooden ladle to commentate as if it were a...
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Superblocks, an urban planning compromise for cars and pedestrians
Living in city centers with little space to spend time outside and a lot of space for cars is not ideal. However, the elimination of roads for cars to drive on is also usually not ideal. Superblocks,...
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Maps of climate tipping points
The climate is changing, and researchers believe that after some point, there will be no going back. The balance will be too out of order to fix. For the New York Times, Raymond Zhong and Mira...
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Scammed out of life savings, a line chart
Annette Manes, a retired widow and single mother who saved by spending little, was scammed out of $1.4 million of her life savings. Bloomberg shows the large deposits and withdrawals through Manes’...
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Air Quality Stripes
In a riff on Climate Stripes, which shows global temperature change as a color-coded barcode chart, Air Quality Stripes uses a similar encoding to show pollution concentration from 1850 through 2021....
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Visualizing poverty levels with a plant metaphor
To show poverty in the Pacific Region between age groups, gender, and location, Kristin Baumann used a plant metaphor. Each element on the interactive represents an attribute. As a whole, the better...
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Map of job gains and losses
To show the counties with more or fewer jobs when comparing 2023 to 2019, Ben Casselman and Ella Koeze for the New York Times use a county map with up and down arrows. Green and up means a gain,...
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Basketball globe
Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, combined two joys — basketball and maps. The result is ATLAS, which is a basketball that is also a globe. Genius. The limited first run already sold out,...
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