Commonness of Divorce in America
I wondered how common it is for someone to get a divorce. While I’ve touched on the topic before, I’ve never calculated it directly, so I gave it a go….
Time splits from a visualization freelancer
Eli Holder shows how he split his freelance time across various projects and categories. With visualization work, a lot of your time is spent doing non-visualization things: As expected, at…
Cancer and statistics
{“@context”:”;} Hannah Fry works with statistics and risk, but her perspective changed when she was diagnosed with cancer. Fry documented the experience and it’s available on BBC: Hannah Fry, a…
Calculating the new cost of your summer road trip
With gas prices a lot higher than usual, Júlia Ledur, Leslie Shapiro, and N. Kirkpatrick, for The Washington Post, provide a calculator to see how much more your road trip…
✚ Three Questions to Visualize Data Effectively
Welcome to issue #191 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week I’m thinking about…
Examination of songs after virality on TikTok
{“@context”:”;} Vox, in collaboration with The Pudding, looked at what happens when a song goes viral on TikTok. It heads down the TikTok-to-Spotify pipeline, which signals money to be made…
Enhanced refresh with the Power BI REST API is now generally available
General availability announcement for Enhanced Refresh with the Power BI REST API. Perform fine-grain refresh operations for improved scalability. Source: PowerBI
Catching students cheating with R
Matthew Crump, a psychology professor who discovered high volume cheating in his class via WeChat, outlines the saga in five parts. Bonus points for use of R to analyze the…
Radar Trends to Watch: June 2022
The explosion of large models continues. Several developments are especially noteworthy. DeepMind’s Gato model is unique in that it’s a single model that’s trained for over 600 different tasks; whether or…