Connor Rothschild charted all the colors Bob Ross used in The Joy of Painting: Most commonly, paintings have 12 colors. Of the 403 pieces in The Joy of Painting, 100…
In 1921, hundreds were killed. The New York Times recreated the neighborhood, adding weight to what happened and showing the loss a hundred years ago: For decades, what happened in…
Based on estimates from Princeton University’s Net-Zero America Project, Veronica Penney for The New York Times mapped where wind and solar energy need to expand to to reach the United…
We’ve seen maps made out of LEGO bricks before, but LEGO is about to release an official world map set. And cartographers everywhere rejoiced. Tags: LEGO, world
Welcome to issue #141 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members where we look closer at charts. I’m Nathan Yau, and every month I collect useful tools and resources…
We know what you did during lockdown is a short fiction film by Financial Times that demonstrates the challenges of using data for good at the sacrifice of privacy and…
River Runner is a fun interactive map by Sam Learner. Click anywhere in the contiguous United States to drop some rain and, based on data from the U.S. Geological Survey,…
Overall, Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are down in the United States, but much of that is from vaccinations. When you look at only those who are not vaccinated, the rates…
The United States vaccination rate was rolling for a while there, but it has slowed down. Sema Sgaier for NYT Opinion talks about why that is, breaking it down to…