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Jan 16, 2025 | 
flowingdata.com | Nathan Yau
As we have learned over the years, there can never be enough color-picking tools. This one by Claus Wilke, powered by R in the backend, lets you poke around in the HCL space to put together your color palette. The app visualizes colors either along the hue-chroma plane for a given luminance value or along the luminance-chroma plane for a given hue.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
flowingdata.com | Nathan Yau
In the United States, a two-party system means that candidates, who are supposed to represent their constituents, are forced to run as Republican or Democrat. For NYT Opinion, Jesse Wegman and Lee Drutman, with graphics by Aileen Clarke, imagine if the country used proportional representation with multiple parties. People would more likely have representation who reflected their values more closely. The piece walks you through the steps to understand such a system.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
flowingdata.com | Nathan Yau
BBC went with the gradient-filled frequency trails to show the distribution of daily temperature differences compared to the pre-industrial global average. Note the overall shift of peaks towards warmer temperatures as you scan top to bottom and left to right.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
flowingdata.com | Nathan Yau
This is some good step charting by Mira Rojanasakul for the New York Times. As most people know but fewer seem to care, the average temperature on this planet continues to rise. Last year, 2024, was the hottest on record. The line represents the average annual temperature compared against the 19th century average, and the monthly dots are colored by the same difference.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
flowingdata.com | Nathan Yau
January 13, 2025 Infographics / firefight, flight, Reuters, wildfire For Reuters, Simon Scarr, Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa, and Sudev Kiyada use flight data to show how firefighters are extinguishing the Los Angeles fires. They visualized and illustrated the planes, cargo capacity, flight patterns, and timing between aircraft. It’s a very good breakdown.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
flowingdata.com | Nathan Yau
The Guardian provides a visual guide to the damage in Los Angeles with a combination of maps, photos, and video, categorized by location (Altadena, Pacific Palisades, and Malibu). The underlying image in the above is a composite of infrared satellite imagery by Maxar. It is a lot.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
flowingdata.com | Nathan Yau
Bartosz Ciechanowski used his style of interactive essay, with many sliders, graphics, and simulations, to explain the movement of the Moon, its relationship to Earth, and why we see the Moon’s lighting differently through its phases. The Moon may be just an unassuming neighbor in the sky, but its presence affects our lives in many subtle ways.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
flowingdata.com | Nathan Yau
Welcome to the first issue of the Process for 2025. This is the newsletter for FlowingData members where we talk shop about visualizing data in a way that doesn’t converge to mind-numbing defaults. I’m Nathan Yau. Like most things that people make, especially work published online, past and current charts influence future charts. Should you credit the past work? At what point does homage become plagiarism? If you’re the original creator, are you pleased or annoyed?
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
flowingdata.com | Nathan Yau
Those who keep a daily journal typically record with words, photos, and video. Since 2020, Sophie O’Neill has used embroidery as her medium. She embroiders an icon for each day to reflect an experience or memory. Each year gets a new journal. The above is the 2024 embroidery journal. I guess this is kind of a thing? O’Neill shares others’ journals, and there is an active Facebook group. I want to do this with data and charts, without falling into the personal annual report genre.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
flowingdata.com | Nathan Yau
Sentinel-2 satellite of the European Space Agency captured an image of the Palisades fire when it began:One of the wind-driven fires ignited during the morning of January 7, near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. The image below, acquired by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite, shows the Palisades fire at 10:45 a.m. Pacific Time on January 7, soon after it ignited. The Palisades is that area along the coast, right next to the narrow smoke plume in the middle.
