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World map of tides
From Dave Taylor, this world map shows tidal ranges, from microtidal to macrotidal: Created using FES2014 data from Aviso+, this map displays maximum tidal ranges (the difference between the lowest low...
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Early voting turnout
Early voting isn’t coming in as hot as in 2020, but there are still a lot. For the Washington Post, Alyssa Fowers and Hannah Recht are using estimates from Associated Press to keep a running tally...
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Presidential Election Chances, Practice Run
By now you’ve seen or chosen to ignore forecasts that provide probabilities for a presidential candidate winning the election. Run enough elections with a given probability and the results converge. On...
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Election ad views for Democrats and Republicans
For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek compared ad views per household: To figure out which party won this election’s ad war, Times Opinion dug into data on 3.7 million political ad airings on broadcast TV from...
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Uniform flair on the rise in NBA basketball games
In NBA basketball, the home team used to almost always wear a white uniform and the away team would wear a non-white uniform that matched one of their team colors. Now it’s kind of all over the place....
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People moving towards political affiliation
For NYT Upshot, Ronda Kaysen and Ethan Singer compared current voter registration data against 2020 data to estimate how people moved away from politically balanced neighborhoods. Those who voted for a...
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✚ Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, October 2024 Roundup
Hey, it’s Nathan. This is the Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members where we talk about the finer details of analyzing data and chart-making. Every month, I collect tools and resources to...
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Halloween Candy Ratings by Cost and Love
This is very important. How did your favorite candy rate? The old FiveThirtyEight ran a head-to-head between Halloween candies years ago. I used the data for the above, which should be taken very...
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Drying of the Aral Sea and its source rivers
NPR reports on the drying Central Asia water sources. The Aral Sea has been drying for the past 60 years, and if its source rivers dry up too, much of the region will become uninhabitable. A...
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Winning the Electoral College, a mini-game
For The New York Times, Lily Boyce, Jon Huang, and Blacki Migliozzi made a game-like interactive that lets you explore the possibilities of winning the Electoral College. Simply drag a state towards...
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