Category: Analytics

Analytics

Taylor Swift earnings visualized with bracelet beads

Bloomberg estimates that Taylor Swift reached billionaire status with her recent touring and music releases. Swift achieved the milestone mostly with music. Bloomberg provides the visual splits with bracelet beads….

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Falling insect species

Insects are dying at a high rate every year, but it is difficult to estimate an accurate number, because it is a challenge to gather data for millions of species…

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✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, October 2023 Roundup

Welcome to issue #262 of The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members where we look closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau. Every month I collect useful…

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Rising to Top Net Worth, by Age

The Survey of Consumer Finances from the Federal Reserve asks people about their assets and debt, which are used to estimate net worth. With the most recent release for 2022…

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Food shortage in a height chart

There are food shortages in Guatemala. For Reuters, Cassandra Garrison, Clare Trainor and Sarah Slobin used a height chart to show stunted growth as an indicator. A few tortillas and…

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Announcing a new admin API to get insights into tenant setting overrides at capacity level.

The “GetCapacityTenantSettingOverrides” API is a response to the concerns raised by tenant administrators. It offers transparency and insight that administrators need to govern Fabric. Source: PowerBI

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Model Collapse: An Experiment

Ever since the current craze for AI-generated everything took hold, I’ve wondered: what will happen when the world is so full of AI-generated stuff (text, software, pictures, music) that our…

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Analysis of romance novel covers

When I was a kid, I remember uncomfortably walking past the book section at a grocery store where I would see a bunch of books with a muscular man, probably…

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Google Maps and 3D experiments

The Google Maps API lets you access high-resolution 3D map tiles now. Robert Hodgin has been experimenting with the new data source using Houdini, which is 3D graphics software that…

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Evolution of race categories in U.S. Census forms

For The New York Times, K.K. Rebecca Lai and Jennifer Medina show the changing checkboxes over the past couple centuries: Over the centuries, the census has evolved from one that…