Emissions and energy usage from Ethereum network
It seems clear that Ethereum (and other cryptocurrencies) in its current state is bad for the environment, but it’s hard to say how bad it really is. Kyle McDonald estimated…
FlowingData Shop is Open, Temporarily
I’m opening the print shop for a few days. Get your order in, and I’ll try my best to get it to you before Christmas. Source: Data
✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, November 2021 Roundup
Welcome to issue #167 The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and we’re back from Thanksgiving. I hope…
Power BI Streaming Dataflows November Update
We are excited to announce new capabilities for Streaming Dataflows in Power BI. Source: PowerBI
Rapidly growing African cities
In a multi-faceted piece, The Washington Post described the rapidly growing cities in Africa that are projected to be the most populated cities in the world: In three projections by…
Announcing Power BI APIs .NET SDK v4
We are thrilled to announce the release of Power BI APIs .NET SDK v4. The new SDK version provides clarity on the properties of Power BI artifacts returned by various…
A thinking and recording tool: Decision Records
The Advice Process works when supported by four elements. Andrew describes the first of these, Decision Records, which act as a tool for thinking about and recording the decision process….
Put most of your energy into building clean interfaces
While we have historically drawn up our project plans and costs around the boxes—the digital products we are introducing—the lines are the hidden and often primary driver of organizational tech…
Radar trends to watch: December 2021
The last month had a few surprises. Three items about quantum computing—all of which appeared on the same day. You’d think they were coordinating with each other. And of course,…