Timeline of gambling addicts
Using anonymized credit card data, Bloomberg illustrated a three-year timeline of online gambling.… Tags: Bloomberg, gambling, prediction market, sports, timeline
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Nathan Yau exploring how statisticians, designers, and data scientists use data to understand the world.
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30 of 181✚ Annotating line charts for presentation
This is No. 414 of The Process. I'm Nathan Yau, and this week we get into specifics for annotation on line charts to draw attention and communicate patterns more clearly. Tags: annotation
BikeNetKit is a toolkit to improve the bicycle network in your city
When your city doesn’t support a proper infrastructure for bicycles, it can be… Tags: bicyle, cities, Python, toolkit
Word Tree to visualize structure in a body of text
Word Tree got a refresh by Jason Davies. It works more smoothly and… Tags: Jason Davies, text
Text time-lapse
Text Time-Lapse by Lev Manovich is a tool that shows the additions, deletions,… Tags: Lev Manovich, text, time-lapse
Geolocation determined with background airplane noise
Apparently inaudible background noise from airplanes in a blurry video clip is enough… Tags: airplane, Colsto, geolocation, OSINT
No Republican New England senators for the first time in a long time
For CT Insider, Philip Bump made a racetrack-like graphic to show the timeline… Tags: CT Insider, New England, Philip Bump, Senate, timeline
A brain from simple circuits
Aatish Bhatia and Arkarup Banerjee use a visual explainer for how a few… Tags: Aatish Bhatia, Arkarup Banerjee, brain, Myriad, neurons
Swings in Texas over the years
The New York Times produced a series of charts for the shift in… Tags: elections, New York Times, partisanship, Texas
Hairy election margins map
You’ve seen maps of the results and maps of the shifts. For the… Tags: elections, midterm, Wall Street Journal
Data exploration, manually and intentionally
Randy Au on the manual process of exploratory data analysis that is still… Tags: automation, Large Language Model, Randy Au
✚ Shifting chart options
In this week's The Process, we look at the ones that highlight the big shifts and see how changing focus can change the story. Tags: options, switch
Mountain peaks to show the shifts
Bloomberg used mountain peaks to show the shifts towards Democrats and Republicans. Taller… Tags: Bloomberg, elections, midterm
Shift in margins for Midterms 2026, by county
The New York Times brings back the angled arrows to map the shift… Tags: elections, midterm, New York Times
Benchmark chair
James Birdle described his experiment using AI to assist in chair design: What… Tags: chair, creativity, Emergence Magazine, James Birdle, process
Percentage of votes counted so far
For the Washington Post, Dylan Moriarty has a live tracker for the percentage… Tags: turnout, voting, Washington Post
Needle of uncertainty is live for Midterms 2026
If feeling uncertain is your thing, the Needle from the New York Times… Tags: election, midterm, needle, New York Times, uncertainty
Election night mirages
As midterm election results come in tonight, percentages can flip in favor of… Tags: election, forecast, New York Times, uncertainty
Google cherrypicks small data for Gemini ad
During the World Series, Google ran an ad for Gemini that noted several… Tags: baseball, cherrypicking, Google, Marcos Huerta, moon
Early voting jumps
Evan Reynolds and Christine Zhang, for the New York Times, have quick tabulations… Tags: election, midterm, New York Times, turnout
Where the Musk money flows
Elon Musk has donated $446 million for the midterm elections, because sure why… Tags: election, Elon Musk, Guardian, midterm, spending
Increasing Trump comments on body appearance
For the Washington Sun, Andrew Van Dam and Manuela Silva note the uptick… Tags: body, Washington Sun, words
Worst Halloween candies, according to the data
What candies usually land in the throwaway pile? Tags: candy, Halloween
Policing protests in India
With more demonstrations and protests in India, Reuters charts and illustrates current tactics… Tags: India, police, protest
Cost of greed, as unbearably tall chart
Last month, the Wealth Inequality in America video by Politizane got an update… Tags: billionaires, scale, scroll, wealth
✚ Visualization tools and learning resources, October 2026 roundup
Every month, I gather tools and resources to make better charts that communicate and reveal. Here is what happened in October. Tags: roundup
Cost of college versus the return on investement
For the New York Times, Arfa Momin and Ron Lieber charted median income… Tags: college, education, income, New York Times
Finding the real center actor of Hollywood
For the Pudding, Owen Lacey analyzed the network of Hollywood actors connected by… Tags: Kevin Bacon, Owen Lacey, Pudding, separation
Why agents take unexpected routes
For the New York Times, Raj Saha and Blacki Migliozzi used mazes to… Tags: New York Times, rogue, training
Localized Wikipedia to your geographic area
Local Wikipedia, by Ed Jefferson, subsets regular Wikipedia to people, places, and things… Tags: Ed Jefferson, local, Wikipedia