The Why Axis

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  • Plotly.js Powers the Tool that has Cracked Community

    Jul 9 2019

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  • Maps Need Context

    Jul 2 2019

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  • Eyeo 2019 Recap from Kemper Smith

    Jun 26 2019

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  • Variance Charts New Territory for Visualization Libraries

    May 6 2019

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  • A Cure for the Common Health Visualization

    Apr 28 2019

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  • Takeaways from Tapestry 2019

    May 7 2019

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  • Visage Automates The Boring Parts of Infographic Design

    Mar 31 2019

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  • What Yahoo's Latest Acquisition Means for Data Visualization

    Mar 7 2019

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  • Lyra Gets its First Visualization Tutorial

    Mar 4 2019

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  • The Landscape of Climate Finance

    Feb 25 2019

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  • Lessons From “Behind The Bloodshed”

    Feb 4 2019

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  • Google's Digital Attack Map

    Jan 21 2019

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  • DataViva, Built in Brazil, Available to All

    Dec 17 2013

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  • Bloomberg's Guided Tour of the October Jobs Report

    Dec 3 2013

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  • Human Progress Pushes Today's Big Issues Forward

    Nov 19 2013

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  • Add Raw to Your Roster of Visualization Tools

    Nov 5 2013

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  • Behind The Black Budget

    Sep 23 2013

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  • The Startup Universe: Design Process

    Sep 17 2013

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  • Designing Rasmussen's Career Scatter Plot

    Aug 27 2013

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  • Finding Potential in the Pitfalls of Google Databoard

    Aug 11 2013

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  • The Ups and Downs of Gravity from Disqus

    Jul 14 2013

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  • Twitter Analytics Platform Gives Data Back to Users

    Jun 18 2013

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  • Sitegeist App is Your Mobile Census Tour Guide

    May 29 2013

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  • Mind the Gap - An Economic Chart Remake

    Apr 9 2013

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  • The Washington Post Plots Quality and Quantity of Life

    Mar 21 2013

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  • WIDE Shows the Gaps in Education Equality Around the Globe.

    Mar 7 2013

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  • The New York Times and Tesla Motors Engage in Chart Warfare

    Feb 16 2013

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  • Breaking Excel Defaults – A Government Chart Remake

    Jan 29 2013

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  • Posts on Process – November 2012

    Nov 13 2012

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  • Oh The Political Possibilities: 512 Paths to the White House

    Nov 5 2012

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  • Google Consumer Barometer Promises Insight Through Visualization

    Oct 4 2012

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  • FF Chartwell Comes to the Web

    Sep 26 2012

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  • The Map of Life, A Field Guide For The Future

    Sep 12 2012

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  • Marimekko Chart Shows the Makeup of Healthcare in the US

    Aug 29 2012

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  • Sadly Static: Hurricanes Since 1851

    Aug 27 2012

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  • Healthy Apps Bring Visualization to Medical Care

    Aug 8 2012

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  • Moneyball or Hairball? The Political Donor Visualization from WSJ

    Jul 26 2012

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  • Every Single Person in one Cartogram

    Jul 24 2012

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  • U.S. Job Market Shrinkage Visualized in a Sprawling Interactive

    Jul 18 2012

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  • A Bird’s Eye View of the Political Landscape from the Pollster API

    Jul 5 2012

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  • The Endangered Languages Project and Emotional Data Visualization

    Jul 2 2012

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  • Dark Money Universe Uncovers Constellations of Political Spending

    Jun 28 2012

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  • Sigma.js Cleans up Hairball Network Visualizations

    Jun 25 2012

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  • The Reuters Macroscope Visualization You Need a Microscope to Read

    May 30 2012

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  • The Graph Lover’s Weather App

    May 24 2012

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  • Brightly Colored Bitly Map Gets Users Lost

    May 17 2012

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  • The Guardian’s Gay Rights Rainbow Graph

    May 9 2012

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  • The Role of Data Visualization in the 2012 French Presidential Race

    May 3 2012

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  • The Chronicle’s College Completion Site Gets Valedictorian

    May 3 2012

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  • Feltron Annual Reports Start to Feel Like Annual Reports

    Feb 28 2012

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  • LA Times’ Senti-meter Inches Towards Oscar Predictions via Twitter

    Feb 23 2012

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  • Infographics for America – Displaying Data in the State of the Union

    Jan 25 2012

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  • The 2012 Political Visualization Race – New Hampshire Primaries Edition

    Jan 11 2012

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  • Google Zeitgeist Misses the Mark for 2011

    Dec 19 2011

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  • Seeing The Spread of (Mis)information on Twitter

    Dec 8 2011

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  • Can Visualization Untangle the Eurozone?

    Nov 30 2011

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  • Making Music Visual: Interact with music history, taxonomy and anatomy.

    Nov 22 2011

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  • A Movement of Numbers: Occupy Wall Street

    Oct 27 2011

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  • Visualizing Yahoo Mail in Near Realtime

    Oct 18 2011

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  • Interactive Hurricane Trackers and Transforming Viewers into Users

    Oct 6 2011

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  • Visualize Hierarchical Data with a Bubble Tree

    Sep 29 2011

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  • Thoughts on the Launch of Visual.ly

    Jul 15 2011

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  • Make Your Own Better Life Index

    Jun 20 2011

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  • Mixing the Wall Street Journal and Foursquare Produces Mixed Results

    Jun 9 2011

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  • Better Census Maps with Dot-density

    Apr 3 2011

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  • Understanding Scale in Radiation Dosage Charts

    Apr 3 2011

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  • The Path of Protest – A Living Timeline from The Guardian

    Mar 30 2011

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  • CFO Outlook Survey; Visualizing Qualitative Information

    Mar 28 2011

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  • Infographic Record of 2011 Egyptian Revolution from Chartbeat

    Mar 25 2011

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