Internationalization of K-Pop
K-pop grew mainstream-popular in countries outside South Korea over the past few years. This growth partially comes from efforts to internationalize the music genre with changes in language and group...
View ArticleWeight of cars and fatalities
The Economist examines car weight and fatalities in car crashes. In two-vehicle collisions, while heavier cars tend to mean fewer deaths for those driving them, the opposite is true for the other car...
View ArticleMusic visualizer in the style of a Pong game
You know the classic game Pong with the paddles and ball that moves across the screen? Imagine the ball and paddles synchronized to music. Victor Tao approached the challenge as an optimization...
View ArticleFalling cost of lab-grown diamonds
Natural diamonds require a lot of pressure and time, and then someone has to mine for them. Lab-grown diamonds can be produced to be nearly indistinguishable from the natural ones, minus the time and...
View ArticleMaking unrefined vs. refined avocado oil, illustrated
For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor and Aaron Steckelberg show the contrast between making unrefined avocado oil, which is more natural, and refined avocado oil, which is more processed. The...
View ArticleFingers for scale
This is one small bit in a Reuters piece by Mariano Zafra and Sudev Kiyada about highly flammable materials in buildings constructed in the 1980s. The polyethylene cores usually come as a thin layer in...
View ArticleAtlas of Design, Volume 7
Every two years, since 2012, the North American Cartographic Information Society publishes Atlas of Design. It’s a collection of beautiful maps and the process behind each. From series editor Nat Case,...
View ArticleSpell your name with satellite imagery
Here’s a fun interactive from NASA Landsat that lets you enter your name to see it spelled with satellite imagery. There are multiple images for each letter, so you get a new combination when you...
View ArticleSatellite imagery of all the outdoor basketball courts
For The Pudding, Matthew Daniels extracted all the outdoor basketball courts in the United States via OpenStreetMap satellite imagery. With 59,705 locations along with commenting and liking, it’s a fun...
View ArticlePolitical leanings of first and last names
For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam and Lenny Bronner analyzed names and political leanings, using a voter file with 212 million registered voters. They break it down by age and geography. You can...
View ArticleImmigration in Democrat counties
For Bloomberg, Elena Mejía and Shawn Donnan use a transitioning cartogram to show how immigration might play a role in the upcoming election: In the battleground states that will decide this November’s...
View ArticleGrocery owner territories
Any day is a good day for a map of predominant commercial chains. For The Washington Post, Kevin Schaul and Jaclyn Peiser show the most common grocery owners, creating territories within the United...
View ArticleEnvironmental cost of food
The New York Times highlights the work of True Price Foundation, a group that estimates the environmental and social costs tied to food production that aren’t included in the price you see at the...
View ArticleEnergy used to generate an email with AI
For The Washington Post, Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan illustrate the scale of energy and water used to generate email with ChatGPT. One email from a GPT-4 language model requires about one bottle of...
View ArticleElection game to win the White House against other readers
For Financial Times, Sam Learner, Oliver Roeder, and Irene de la Torre Arenas made a game to help you better understand the competition for electoral votes. You get spending units that you can allot to...
View ArticleHurricane categories, visually explained
As Hurricane Helene approached Florida, it grew from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane. What does that mean? Amudalat Ajasa, Aaron Steckelberg, and Julie Hoban, reporting for The Washington...
View ArticleTrash balloons released by North Korea landing in South Korea
North Korea has been releasing thousands of trash bags into the air with balloons to land in South Korea. The bags in the air disrupt flight traffic and land in random places and on people. Reuters...
View ArticleCounting mullets in the AFL
The mullet has grown popular in the Australian Football League. ABC News counted all of the long hairs. If only I could go back in time to my eight-year-old self to tell him that the haircut his mom...
View ArticleRainfall in the path of Hurricane Helene
Western North Carolina got the brunt of Hurricane Helene with two feet of rain over three days and major flooding as a result. The Washington Post mapped the event. Tags: hurricane, rainfall,...
View ArticleReordered baseball lineup over decades
Baseball’s batting lineup has changed from what seemed to make sense to what the numbers show as optimal. Neil Paine and Michelle Pera-McGhee for The Pudding show the shifts. No place in the lineup...
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