What Makes a Data Visualization Confusing?
Why are some visualizations so easy to understand at first sight while others seem to be some sort of graphical puzzle? Why do some visualizations need to be relearned every...
04/15/2024
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How Pew Research Center uses git and GitHub for version control
The research we do on Pew Research Center’s Data Labs team typically involves multiple members of our team working collaboratively on code that covers all aspects of a research...
03/25/2024
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Data Horror Stories - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Working for data teams unavoidably creates horror stories that crystalize themselves in the brains of those who have experienced them. Terrible bosses who don’t understand...
03/24/2024
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What's the plot of your data story?
It rains cats and dogs once a day. Iguanas sunbathe next to the road. You try to speak Spanish but sound French. The scattered sentences above are small beats of my holiday...
03/04/2024
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Alternative Map Projections in Tableau
If you've already read the blog post and you are just looking for the files, you can download them from my Google Drive here. Otherwise, please check out the full blog post...
02/24/2024
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Persistent Systems Navigates New ‘Digital Engineering’ Zones
Technology evolves, constantly. But like all fluid entities, the inherent dynamism that we know exists in software development, always naturally coalesces and crystallizes into...
02/21/2024
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Night Light Maps Open Up New Applications
NASA scientists have released new global maps of Earth at night, providing the clearest-yet views of the patterns of human settlements across our planet. Satellite images of...
02/17/2024
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what is a treemap? — storytelling with data
by Simon Rowe This article is part of our back-to-basics blog series called what is…?, where we’ll break down some common topics and questions posed to us. We’ve covered much of...
02/17/2024
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Submit Your Entry
Submissions will open on August 25, 2022 and close on September 18, 2022. The Awards ceremony will take place on November 30, 2022 in Washington, D.C. in the United...
02/17/2024
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SPOTLIGHT: W.E.B. Du Bois Portrait Gallery, Nightingale
Chimdi Nwosu’s interactive visualization, the W.E.B. Du Bois Portrait Gallery, is a beautifully designed exploration of 20 re-created Du Bois charts. The gallery won Favorite...
02/16/2024
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Data Memos. 12 reflections on data (and its…
12 reflections on data (and its representation) that we don’t want to forget in the “next-normal” Data is everywhere: in every headline, and at the center of every conversation....
02/14/2024
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Easing Range Anxiety to Tap New Electric Vehicle (EV) Markets
In 2022, electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers might flounder as their primary audience fears a limited drivable range of EV products. This fear has one name: Range Anxiety. A...
02/09/2024
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