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Social media app preferences of young teenagers
Pew Research published their annual report on what social media U.S. 13- to 17-year-olds are using these days. It looks like WhatsApp took some attention from Snapchat and X continued its downward...
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Map of active wildfires in California
This California wildfires map from Los Angeles Times shows an up-to-date status in the Los Angeles area. It provides fire origin, perimeters, and evacuation areas. I hope everyone is keeping safe. The...
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Hot winds fueling the fires
The Washington Post illustrates how air flows from the Great Basin, over the mountains, through the gaps, and into Los Angeles as the wind moves faster, hotter, and dryer. Tags: Los Angeles, Washington...
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Wind flow patterns over Los Angeles
Based on data from NOAA, the New York Times shows the direction and speed of wind over Los Angeles with an animated map, as of January 8, 2025 at noon. Tags: New York Times, wildfire, wind
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Palisades fire, seen from above
Sentinel-2 satellite of the European Space Agency captured an image of the Palisades fire when it began: One of the wind-driven fires ignited during the morning of January 7, near the Pacific Palisades...
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Phases of the Moon, visually explained
Bartosz Ciechanowski used his style of interactive essay, with many sliders, graphics, and simulations, to explain the movement of the Moon, its relationship to Earth, and why we see the Moon’s...
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Visual guide to the wildfire damage
The Guardian provides a visual guide to the damage in Los Angeles with a combination of maps, photos, and video, categorized by location (Altadena, Pacific Palisades, and Malibu). The underlying image...
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Fighting fire from the sky
For Reuters, Simon Scarr, Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa, and Sudev Kiyada use flight data to show how firefighters are extinguishing the Los Angeles fires. They visualized and illustrated the planes, cargo...
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Earth was hotter than ever, again
This is some good step charting by Mira Rojanasakul for the New York Times. As most people know but fewer seem to care, the average temperature on this planet continues to rise. Last year, 2024, was...
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Distribution of days that were hotter than average
BBC went with the gradient-filled frequency trails to show the distribution of daily temperature differences compared to the pre-industrial global average. Note the overall shift of peaks towards...
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Imagining a multiparty system in the US
In the United States, a two-party system means that candidates, who are supposed to represent their constituents, are forced to run as Republican or Democrat. For NYT Opinion, Jesse Wegman and Lee...
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Expectations of adulthood as a child vs. actual adulthood
xkcd charted topics that seemed like they’d come up often with grown ups against what actually happened. Thinking back, it’s hard to believe how little quicksand seems to enter the everyday. Tags:...
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Wildfire risk for buildings in Los Angles
As we have learned in recent weeks, even when homes seem far away from burning vegetation, fire and smoke can carry far and quickly. For The New York Times, Mira Rojanasakul and Brad Plumer mapped risk...
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Where you would feel richer and poorer
New to me, Bloomberg has an interactive by Claire Ballentine and Charlie Wells that lets you compare how income in one metro area would feel like in another due to differences in cost of living. For...
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Young and alone
John Burn-Murdoch, for Financial Times (paywalled), breaks down data from the American Time Use Survey to show the increase in time spent alone, specifically among young people. The x-axis represents...
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Tracker for freezing temperatures
The forecast for the contiguous United States this week is cold, and below freezing for a lot of it. The New York Times is tracking the areas that drop below freezing, based on estimates from NOAA. The...
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Private school demographics
Private schools cost extra. So as you might imagine, the demographics, often tied to income, tend to differ between private and public schools. ProPublica, by Sergio Hernández, Nat Lash, and Brandon...
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Astoria, not the single-parent capital of America
In Kindergarten Cop, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s greatest works, a mother welcomes the title character: “Welcome to Astoria, the single-parent capital of America.” For the Washington Post’s...
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Fastest-growing and most destructive fires
Using satellite data, researchers analyzed the growth rate of 60,000 fires in the contiguous United States, between 2001 and 2020. Fires are growing faster and getting bigger. Reuters mapped the most...
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Cozy game about cozy games
Cozy games are casual games that give you a warm, fuzzy feeling when you play them. Design a character, walk around, and chat with others. To demonstrate the mechanics and provide background, Reuters...
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