The Pudding examines who gets shipped, which means a pairing of characters in a relationship. Relationship types, demographics, and fandoms. Completely uninitiated to the world of fan fiction, I did not know many words going into this, but now I do. Tags: fiction, Pudding, relationships, shipped

For WP’s Department of Data, Kati Perry and Adrián Blanco examine campaign spending through the lens of restaurant and cuisine preferences between political parties: [W]e wanted to wrap our arms around a bigger question: where the campaigns spend the most money. We limited our analysis to places that racked up at least $5,000 in campaign spending,...

Based on rideshare data collected by Bloomberg, it appears that Uber and Lyft are using a loophole to avoid paying drivers a minimum wage in New York. They lock out drivers throughout the day to reduce paying out of pocket. The rideshare companies said they only do this during busy times, but the Bloomberg analysis shows that lockouts happen almost...

For The Guardian, statistician David Spiegelhalter describes three kinds of luck: Circumstantial luck — Right place, right time or wrong place, wrong time Outcome luck — Randomness outside your control Constitutive luck — A series of events leading up to the present He emphasizes the third with a story about his existence that starts with his...

Hey, it’s Nathan Yau. This is The Process, the weekly newsletter for FlowingData members. We look at the many ways to visualize data and how design choices can change a message and interpretation. I’m a little early this week. Given the topic and situation in Florida, I’m making this issue public. Read More

NOAA has a viewer for their GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) system, which provides current imagery from space. The images update every five minutes, and you can see different bands at different times for different locations. This is the current view for the Gulf of Mexico where you can see Hurricane Milton approaching Florida:...