Evolution of Lego brick colors
Lego started with five brick colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and clear. The selection peaked in 2004 but then surprisingly decreased to cut costs. For The Washington Post, Kati Perry…
Oldest and Youngest, by State
In some states there are more kids, such as Utah, which has the youngest median age at 31 years and 4 months. In others states there are more older adults,…
✚ Why I Use R More than Python
Welcome to The Process, where we look closer at how the charts get made. This is issue #256. I’m Nathan Yau. The tool debate between whether to use R or…
Visualization to better see true values in data
For Scientific American, Jack Murtagh describes the importance of visualization in understanding the roughness of data: One maxim that should be etched into the walls of all scientific institutions is…
Power BI September 2023 Feature Summary
Welcome to the September 2023 update. We’ve got some updates to editing you data models, row -level security, and a reminder to update your .NET Framework version for Desktop! Source:…
Very Expensive Maps
In the Very Expensive Maps podcast, cartographer Evan Applegate interviews other cartographers about how they got into the field, the thoughts behind their design choices, and the more technical bits…
The Real Problem with Software Development
A few weeks ago, I saw a tweet that said “Writing code isn’t the problem. Controlling complexity is.” I wish I could remember who said that; I will be quoting…
Shifting causes of death over the decades
Saloni Dattani, for Our World in Data, used a set of heatmaps to show how causes of death changed by time (on the horizontal axis) and age (on the vertical…
Supporting Azure Active Directory shared device mode (preview) for Power BI Mobile apps
Shared devices are company-owned devices that are shared between employees, often frontline workers, across tasks, shifts, or locations. Most mobile apps, however, are designed for single users, and optimize their…