Differing approaches between SpaceX and NASA of sending rockets to the moonFor The Washington Post, William Neff, Aaron Steckelberg, and Christian Davenport show the…
01/27/23
✚ Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, January 2023 RoundupHere's the good stuff for January.
01/26/23
Misuse of the rainbow color scheme to visualize scientific dataFabio Crameri, Grace Shephard, and Philip Heron in Nature discuss the drawbacks of…
01/26/23
Cinematic visualizationUsing the third dimension in visualization can be tricky because of rendering, perception,…
01/25/23
✚ How to Animate Packed Circles in RPack circles, figure out the transitions between time segments, and then generate frames to string together.
01/25/23
Mass shootings calendarA shooting in Monterey Park, California on Lunar New Year’s eve left 11…
01/24/23
Unreturned Native American remainsA law was passed in 1990 that allowed Native American tribes to request…
01/24/23
Mixed Feelings of Happiness and MeaningHappiness and meaningfulness in what we do do not always go together.
01/23/23
Meaning of the Chinese New Year mealIn celebration of Chinese New Year, Julia Janicki, Daisy Chung, and Joyce Chou…
01/20/23
Reservoir refills in CaliforniaThere’s been a lot of rain in California, which has been good to…
01/20/23
Manual removal of harmful text to train AI modelsAI training data comes from the internet, and as we know but maybe…
01/20/23
✚ More Noise, Better SignalSometimes the noise, something we often try to minimize in data, makes for a better signal.
01/19/23
Barely a map of the west coastBarely Maps is an ongoing project by Peter Gorman that shows geographic data…
01/19/23
Scrolly video JavaScript libraryScrollyVideo.js is a JavaScript library that makes it easier to incorporate videos in…
01/18/23
Snow cover mapped using snowflakesTo show snow cover across the United States, Althea Archer for the USGS…
01/17/23
Tracking hundreds of pizza slicesFor eight years, Liam Quigley tracked every slice of pizza he ate in…
01/13/23
✚ Alternative Ways to Represent DataWe've seen data in many forms, but we should dig deeper into using our other senses.
01/12/23
Happiness and MeaningThere there are things that make us happy. There are things where we find meaning in the everyday. What are the things that give us both?
01/12/23
Origins of the world mapMapping the entire planet is not exactly a straightforward thing to do, especially…
01/11/23
Tom Brady of other jobsTom Brady, the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is 45 years old,…