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Analytics

Earth was hotter than ever, again

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…

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Fighting fire from the sky

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…

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Visual guide to the wildfire damage

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…

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Phases of the Moon, visually explained

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…

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✚ Recreation, Remixing, and Adaptation — Giving Credit in Data Visualization

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…

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Embroidered daily journaling

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…

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Palisades fire, seen from above

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…

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Wind flow patterns over Los Angeles

Based on data from NOAA, the New York Times shows the direction and speed of wind over Los Angeles with an animated map, as of January 8, 2025 at noon….

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Radar Trends to Watch: January 2025

Despite its 31 days, December is a short month. It’s hard for announcements and happenings other than office parties to get attention. Fighting this trend, OpenAI made a series of…

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cold weather context: graphing lessons from the polar vortex

It’s cold in the United States right now. Really cold. The polar vortex has swept across the lower Midwest and eastern seaboard, leaving tens of millions of people shivering under…