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Run speeds in the men’s 100-meter race
Noah Lyles won the men’s 100-meter, but he started as the slowest runner in the final. The New York Times superimposed shaded circles on the track, in combination with composite photos of the runners,...
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Sun vs. Moon, a game kind of
Neal Agarwal made a game of sorts where you either click for the sun or the moon. The points and the positions change based on how quickly you and others click in real-time. It’s so dumb. It’s so good....
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Speaking of data projects in unexpected places, David Mora repurposed one of my alluvial diagrams on meat consumption over time in the video below. He uses a wooden ladle to commentate as if it were a...
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Superblocks, an urban planning compromise for cars and pedestrians
Living in city centers with little space to spend time outside and a lot of space for cars is not ideal. However, the elimination of roads for cars to drive on is also usually not ideal. Superblocks,...
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Making unrefined vs. refined avocado oil, illustrated
For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor and Aaron Steckelberg show the contrast between making unrefined avocado oil, which is more natural, and refined avocado oil, which is more processed. The...
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Fingers for scale
This is one small bit in a Reuters piece by Mariano Zafra and Sudev Kiyada about highly flammable materials in buildings constructed in the 1980s. The polyethylene cores usually come as a thin layer in...
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Environmental cost of food
The New York Times highlights the work of True Price Foundation, a group that estimates the environmental and social costs tied to food production that aren’t included in the price you see at the...
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Energy used to generate an email with AI
For The Washington Post, Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan illustrate the scale of energy and water used to generate email with ChatGPT. One email from a GPT-4 language model requires about one bottle of...
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Election game to win the White House against other readers
For Financial Times, Sam Learner, Oliver Roeder, and Irene de la Torre Arenas made a game to help you better understand the competition for electoral votes. You get spending units that you can allot to...
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Hurricane categories, visually explained
As Hurricane Helene approached Florida, it grew from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane. What does that mean? Amudalat Ajasa, Aaron Steckelberg, and Julie Hoban, reporting for The Washington...
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Trash balloons released by North Korea landing in South Korea
North Korea has been releasing thousands of trash bags into the air with balloons to land in South Korea. The bags in the air disrupt flight traffic and land in random places and on people. Reuters...
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Counting mullets in the AFL
The mullet has grown popular in the Australian Football League. ABC News counted all of the long hairs. If only I could go back in time to my eight-year-old self to tell him that the haircut his mom...
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Reordered baseball lineup over decades
Baseball’s batting lineup has changed from what seemed to make sense to what the numbers show as optimal. Neil Paine and Michelle Pera-McGhee for The Pudding show the shifts. No place in the lineup...
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Smuggling fentanyl precursors, illustrated
In their ongoing series on fentanyl in the United States, Reuters illustrates the journey of fentanyl precursors hidden among billions of everyday shipments. The volume of boxes, despite various layers...
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Preparing for a hurricane, a visual guide
For The Washington Post, N. Kirkpatrick, Aaron Steckelberg, and Leslie Shapiro provide a visual guide for what to do before, during, and after a hurricane. The guide was originally published in 2023,...
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Uber and Lyft use lockout loophole to avoid paying drivers
Based on rideshare data collected by Bloomberg, it appears that Uber and Lyft are using a loophole to avoid paying drivers a minimum age in New York. They lock out drivers throughout the day to reduce...
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Who gets shipped in fan fiction
The Pudding examines who gets shipped, which means a pairing of characters in a relationship. Relationship types, demographics, and fandoms. Completely uninitiated to the world of fan fiction, I did...
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Scale of buildings destroyed in Gaza
Damage assessments from UNOSAT estimate that 66% of structures in Gaza are damaged as of September 6, 2024, of which 78% are moderately to severely damaged or destroyed. This is about 128,000...
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Visual explainer for the thrilling game of Crokinole
From Russell Samora for The Pudding, “Crokinole is like a mashup of shuffleboard and curling, played on a tabletop board.” There is even a playable simulation that you can practice on. I need to get...
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Abortion mazes to represent the complexity of abortion access
Speaking of grid maps and abortion access, Jan Diehm and Michelle Pera-McGhee, for The Pudding, estimated a complexity score (with variables from the Guttmacher Institute) for each state and made mazes...
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