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How we lie to ourselves with charts about LGBTQ issues

In the past few years I've become increasingly alarmed about how journalists cover the transgender community, particularly transgender youth. Being in...

Greatest unexpected NBA performance

This is a fun one from Russell Samora and Reshad Malekzai for The… Tags: basketball, Pudding

✚ Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, February 2023 Roundup

Here's the good stuff for February. Tags: roundup

A primer on Foreign Direct Investment

I’m Marten, one of the developers at Datawrapper. As a total noob in macroeconomics, I...

Trying to isolate Russia

The New York Times shows how the west tried to isolate Russia and… Tags: New York Times, Russia, sanctions, Ukraine

First impressions

Three considerations that make or break the first encounter with a dataviz

Countries with the longest healthy retirements

Bloomberg compared retirement years in the context of life expectancy and healthy life… Tags: Bloomberg, health, retirement

The Greatest Unexpected NBA Performances

Using Gamescore and statistics to find the biggest single-game outliers.

Visualization “thought leaders” don't know much

I'm working on the chapter of The Art of Insight about ProPublica's Lena Groeger. Here's the first rough draft of the opening paragraphs: In the Fa...

Wealthy Percentiles Rising

The rich continue to get richer, and everyone else either only kind of earns more or stays where they're at. Tags: income, wealth, work

Data Vis Dispatch, February 21

The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations

Map of homes bought with all cash

For The Washington Post, Emmanuel Martinez, Kevin Schaul and Hamza Shaban mapped the… Tags: real estate, Washington Post

Sociopathic journalism

A week ago a large number of New York Times contributors and tens of thousands of their readers signed an open letter criticizing the newspaper's cove...

Spy balloons and UFOs

For The New York Times, Eleanor Lutz illustrated things in the sky, because… Tags: balloon, Eleanor Lutz, illustration, New York Times, UFO

Cyanotype to represent grief

Marking the third anniversary of the first Covid deaths in the United States,… Tags: coronavirus, Reuters

✚ Real Bits

Tie in the real bits among the abstract shapes, colors, and geometries of charts to make the latter easier to understand. Tags: abstract, illustration...

Data warehouse at the supermarket

Grocery stores with loyalty programs collect data on what and when you buy… Tags: Albertsons, grocery, Kroger, privacy, The Markup

Brazil’s unique views on race

Hi there, I’m Doce! 👋 I’m your favorite Brazilian person working in Datawrapper’s app team...

Familiar concepts

How to use well-known notions and metaphors for more effective designs