Oct 14
Say hello to Todd. Todd, on the far left, is literally Mr Average: the most typical of American men based on averages from CDC anthropometric data. How do you compare?
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Oct 10
Sometimes a picture can help make sense of a situation. This viz shows the proportion of government employees who are currently furloughed. It’s as grim as the rest of the shutdown news.
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Oct 05
Here in the US, it’s easy to slip into the comfortable idea that the internet is unrestricted, a home for free speech and exploration, whether it’s meaningful and important, or dumb hashtags. It’s not that way everywhere though, and Freedom House has mapped out the current state of affairs across the globe.
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Oct 04
The most popular sites on the internet? Boring and predictable. The one site that each state reads more of than average? That’s a world where USA Today and Huffpo reign supreme, and New Yorkers don’t read the New York Times.
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Sep 23
The US Tylenol Problem, Visualized
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In the last 10 years, 1,500 Americans died after taking too much of one of—nominally—the world’s safest drugs: acetaminophen or, as you might know it, Tylenol. This viz goes a long way to explaining why that’s the case.
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Sep 21
Aside from just telling you where you are, or letting you point our where you want to be, maps can do a fantastic job of recontextualizing everything you think you know about the world. You probably know that already, but here’s a run-down of maps that do it well.
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Sep 19
OpenStreetMap has been diving deep into its historical data recently
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Sep 18
If you’ve ever wondered where the true home of sasquatch might be, then this visualization of sightings could help you track the mythical beast down.
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Sep 11
Back in the 1990s, Ben Shneiderman invented the treemap as a means of visualizing the hierarchical contents of his hard drive. Now, he’s taking inspiration from famous artists to make his data look pretty. Really, very pretty.
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Sep 06
Scientific research is published by the bucketload every single week—to the extent that it’s virtually impossible to keep up with. So this neat way of visualizing published papers as growing galaxies is particularly fun—and useful.
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