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Drying of the Aral Sea and its source rivers

NPR reports on the drying Central Asia water sources. The Aral Sea has been drying for the past 60 years, and if its source rivers dry up too, much of the region will become uninhabitable. A combination of satellite imagery, photographs, and maps help tell the story. Tags: Aral Sea, climate change, NPR, satellite imagery

Fri Nov 1, 2024 09:39
Halloween Candy Ratings by Cost and Love

This is very important. How did your favorite candy rate?   The old FiveThirtyEight ran a head-to-head between Halloween candies years ago. I used the data for the above, which should be taken very seriously. Tags: candy, Halloween

Thu Oct 31, 2024 23:41
✚ Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, October 2024 Roundup

Hey, it’s Nathan. This is the Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members where we talk about the finer details of analyzing data and chart-making. Every month, I collect tools and resources to make better charts and use data more effectively. This is the good stuff for October. Become a member for access to this — plus tutorials, courses, and...

Thu Oct 31, 2024 20:44
People moving towards political affiliation

For NYT Upshot, Ronda Kaysen and Ethan Singer compared current voter registration data against 2020 data to estimate how people moved away from politically balanced neighborhoods. Those who voted for a given party were much more likely to move to places that were similar politically. Particle-based flow charts are used to show the movements. They initially...

Thu Oct 31, 2024 20:44
Uniform flair on the rise in NBA basketball games

In NBA basketball, the home team used to almost always wear a white uniform and the away team would wear a non-white uniform that matched one of their team colors. Now it’s kind of all over the place. I assume it’s because Nike wanted to sell more jerseys. For The Pudding, Tyler Machado quantified the shift by manually counting uniform usage during...

Thu Oct 31, 2024 11:46
Election ad views for Democrats and Republicans

For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek compared ad views per household: To figure out which party won this election’s ad war, Times Opinion dug into data on 3.7 million political ad airings on broadcast TV from Aug. 1 to Oct. 25. We combined those records, provided by AdImpact, with TV viewership estimates from Comscore to calculate how many households saw each...

Wed Oct 30, 2024 19:53

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