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mayerowitz.io

Mario meets Pareto

Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method.

pudding.cool

This is a teenager

Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out

atlasobscura.com

Why Jesus Never Ate a Banana

About 69 percent of the global diet is “foreign,” says a study that pinpoints the origin of 151 food crops.

splinter.com

The Climate Charts Are Not Okay

The chart looks wrong. It looks like a malign mistake, or like two separate charts have been combined in some nefarious way.

knowingmachines.org

Models All The Way Down

If you want to make a really big AI model you start by finding a really big training set.

aweebitofmapping.com

A long read about NBA shot data

I used to play basketball and I do a lot of data analysis and mapping.

evilmartians.com

Beyond bars and lines: 7 cool ways to visualize data in your dev tool

We examine 7 methods of displaying data, the pros and cons of each, real life use cases, and we share even more scenarios where you might use each.

janwillemtulp.github.io

Parallel Lives

See the age of notable figures for every year in history.

pudding.cool

What Makes an Album the Greatest of All Time?

Examining 30 years of Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” Rankings

stamen.com

Designing for all audiences: Mapping the future of food

What happens when weather events become the norm?

edition.cnn.com

What would happen if we didn’t have leap years?

CNN answers the question on many people’s minds this February 29.

webaxe.org

WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey 10

The results of the 10th WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey are now published.

pudding.cool

Quantifying the Diva-ness of 138 National Anthem Performances

We compared each performer’s pitch to the standard to see who is the ultimate diva.

flowingdata.com

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2023

Data continues on its upwards trajectory and with it comes the importance of visualization.

ethanzuckerman.com

How Big is YouTube?

I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”.

reuters.com

The Hottest Year

How record temperatures fueled extreme weather across the world in 2023.

pentagram.com

1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covid

A data storytelling experience for The New York Times about a life-altering disease.

bbycroft.net

LLM Visualization

A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.

githubunwrapped.com

#GitHubUnwrapped 2023 - Your coding year in review

Get your personalized video of your GitHub activity in 2023.

pudding.cool

The Pudding Cup

The Pudding’s annual picks for the best visual and data-driven stories