Where journeys end

There's a bit of a theme this week: migration and movement. It's not a perfect fit with everything that follows, but I don't know what you expect from a weekly newsletter about data visualization. If ...

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A review of 2,871 Opening Days — and the seasons that followed

A look at what Opening Day means for the other 161 games of the season.

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Visualizations of our conversations

This week I bestow upon you, through an abundance of my well-established generosity, a series of maps offering different perspectives on the American experience. As you would therefore expect, we will...

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The answers to five questions

I've been at this a while, gang, this business of looking at the world around me and wondering what patterns hold it together. It's the seventh-grade-biology-class version of The Matrix; I see a thing...

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The answers to five questions

I've been at this a while, gang, this business of looking at the world around me and wondering what patterns hold it together. It's the seventh-grade-biology-class version of The Matrix; I see a thing...

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Where Trump's money comes from (and other mysteries)

This week's newsletter covers a range of topics: The president's complex network of companies, how weather has gotten worse, a new tool to visualize the whole world at once. But I did reserve some tim...

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Where Trump's money comes from (and other mysteries)

This week's newsletter covers a range of topics: The president's complex network of companies, how weather has gotten worse, a new tool to visualize the whole world at once. But I did reserve some tim...

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Where Trump's money comes from (and other mysteries)

This week's newsletter covers a range of topics: The president's complex network of companies, how weather has gotten worse, a new tool to visualize the whole world at once. But I did reserve some tim...

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This way madness lies, but you knew that

It's the most relatable thing in the world: You've just put your weekly data-visualization newsletter to bed when the president of the United States unilaterally decides that the country is going to l...

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This way madness lies, but you knew that

It's the most relatable thing in the world: You've just put your weekly data-visualization newsletter to bed when the president of the United States unilaterally decides that the country is going to l...

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May your love be plotted logarithmically

Today, Feb. 14, commemorates the day St. Valentine drove the incels from Italy or something. It is to love what Oct. 31 is to fear, which makes it a bit nicer in theory but – in practice? Turns out ea...

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May your love be plotted logarithmically

Today, Feb. 14, commemorates the day St. Valentine drove the incels from Italy or something. It is to love what Oct. 31 is to fear, which makes it a bit nicer in theory but – in practice? Turns out ea...

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Let's consider some disasters.

It has been quite a week in quite a month in quite a year in quite a decade, has it not? A lot of things have gone sideways, often driven into ditches by distracted drivers. Happily for us, some inter...

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Whaddaya mean, 'home'?

"You can't go home again," Thomas Wolfe wrote, but he didn't have geopositioning tools on his cell phone. Chapter 1 Sorry about your luck, kids. So the president of these United States, one Donald ...

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Whaddaya mean, 'home'?

"You can't go home again," Thomas Wolfe wrote, but he didn't have geopositioning tools on his cell phone. Chapter 1 Sorry about your luck, kids. So the president of these United States, one Donald ...

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The robots have arrived.

Introduction So today we are going to talk about A.I. The chances are very good that you experienced a medium-to-strong emotion at reading that sentence and the chances are also good that the emotio...

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