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Paying attention to the visualization minutiae adds up. This week: axis positions.

Joan Westenberg had been writing notes and storing bits for seven years in an effort towards personal knowledge management, to remember everything. She deleted it. PKM systems promise coherence, bu ...

The Seabed 2030 Project aims to create a complete map of the world's ocean floor. They recently announced that they are a quarter of the way there: On World Hydrography Day, The Nippon Founda ...

Life expectancy and priorities changed. People stay single longer, marry later, divorce less, and widow older.

Quanta Magazine interviewed physicist Sidney Nagel, who is known for his research in everyday occurrences and capturing the processes in images. Some pushback came because a few people did not cons ...

We are seeing in real-time why the National Weather Service, a part of NOAA, grows in importance as extreme weather grows more common. Currently, shown in the map of alerts above: A Moderate Risk o ...

Alex Tomlinson illustrated backyard sounds of a cardinal, goldfinch, blue jay, mourning dove, and red-bellied woodpecker. "Various, very subjective interpretations of bird calls." For m ...

You might be surprised that the combination of beer and fireworks doesn't always work out.

Last week marked 18 years of FlowingData. That seems like a long time, especially on the internet. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. There have been books. There have been many an ...

One of the best and most direct ways to visualize data with clarity is to ask questions and answer with data.