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A portrait of your stolen identity in data breaches ift.tt/0XWFk3D

A portrait of your stolen identity in data breaches

You’ve probably heard about big data breaches over the years. They’re in the news or you get an email from a company that kindly reminds you to reset your password, because a few millio…

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Spreadsheet esports ift.tt/bocV2AD

Spreadsheet esports

You’ve probably heard of esports, where people compete against each other in multiplayer video games. Financial Modeling World Cup runs esports for Microsoft Excel. Players get a fixed amount…

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Swipe left or right to cut the national debt ift.tt/T635Nae

Swipe left or right to cut the national debt

Cutting the national debt is a complex process that involves a lot more than personal preferences of an individual. But what if you simplified the task to a bunch of yes-no answers and made it into…

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✚ Chart Practice: Switching the Datasets ift.tt/OLWE9Al

Chart Practice: Switching the Datasets

Same data brings out the same visual forms. So switch up the data that you look at.

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How much AI will affect your job ift.tt/m58FbBD

How much AI will affect your job

Research by Edward W. Felten, Manav Raj, and Robert Seamans provides estimates for how occupations will be impacted by artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, based on AI exposure …

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✚ How to Make Unit-Based, Variable Width Bar Charts ift.tt/Ki9DSIm

How to Make Unit-Based, Variable Width Bar Charts

In a cross between unit charts and variable width bar charts, we can show total counts and relative proportions at the same time.

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Eurovision winners past and present ift.tt/z5U9mFy

Eurovision winners past and present

The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest finished up this past weekend with the winning song coming from Sweden. Hundreds of millions of people watch the contest worldwide, but I’m pretty sure most A…

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A visual story about kimchi and family ift.tt/QoZMJhd

A visual story about kimchi and family

Alvin Chang, for The Pudding, illustrated the search for his kimchi, which is a metaphor for other things. Interact with the items in the story and be sure to turn the sound on. There are charts tu…

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Scale of billions of dollars in Australia’s budget ift.tt/doDph6r

Scale of billions of dollars in Australia’s budget

To show the scale of tax cuts and Australia’s budget, ABC News takes the long, vertical unit chart approach, and the squares just keep coming. This is one of those scrollers that works best o…

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Population surrounded by interstate highways ift.tt/BzlAoh3

Population surrounded by interstate highways

Filed under random but fun calculations, Alasdair Rae estimated the number of people within interstate boundaries: I loaded up a MapTiler streets backdrop layer in QGIS, created polygons from the t…

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✚ Chart Practice: Mimicking Others ift.tt/bPltaYn

Chart Practice: Mimicking Others

One of the most straightforward ways to “do the thing” — and stay on the right track towards work you want to do — is to mimic projects that you like.

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Best Possible Life for You, with Age ift.tt/YjOtCFq

Best Possible Life More Common with Age

Maybe your best possible life is ahead of you.

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Improved color palettes in R ift.tt/OaQyhA1

Improved color palettes in R

Achim Zeileis and Paul Murrell provide a rundown of the more user-friendly color palettes available in R by default since version 4.0. The new palettes make it easier to see differences and less li…

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Mona Chalabi wins Pulitzer for data illustrations ift.tt/xPmeS2R
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Arguing in favor of dual axes to show correlation ift.tt/5TKRvNO

Arguing in favor of dual axes to show correlation

Charts that use two different scales on the same vertical often get the automatic “misleading” label, because if you stretch and shrink two data series enough, you’ll eventually f…

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Mapping where trees will grow ift.tt/qFGdJ82

Mapping where trees will grow

As the climate changes, the places that different types of trees will grow also shifts. Harry Stevens, for The Washington Post, provides the searchable maps to show the changes, based on data from …

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Demonstrating how large language models work ift.tt/RC6LlD9

Demonstrating how large language models work

You might’ve heard about large language models lately. They’re the “brains” behind recent chatbots that seem to know an awful lot. Aatish Bhatia, for NYT’s The Upshot,…

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✚ Chart Practice ift.tt/WdzGM6u

Chart Practice

Split it up into small pieces and then aim for depth.

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Quantum computing visual explainer ift.tt/JftnvIL

Quantum computing visual explainer

Quantum computing promises a higher level of processing power over current computers, but it comes with its own challenges with implementation. When it comes to fruition, it’ll also break cur…

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When you cross hyrdopower and a battery ift.tt/r0TKbCP
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