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In case you're wondering about government spending and budgets, USAFacts has a Sankey diagram that shows the money that came in during 2024 and how the revenue was distributed. According to d ...

I published an interactive guide on reading charts, spotting the misleading ones, and visualizing data honestly. Here's the process I used to get there.

Marcin Wichary dives deep into the Gorton font, calling it the hardest working font in Manhattan. The history of this strange font spans over a century and I've seen it in so many countries by now,

Most of the major map providers changed the name. MapQuest had a different idea. Enter whatever you want and download. (Their standard map still reads the Gulf of Mexico.)

I think I've read about tariffs more in the past month than I have my entire life. They've been pitched as a cure-all to make countries give into U.S. demands. As you might expect, the ...

The DOGE site has a "wall of receipts" that claims $55 billion in federal government savings. However, as noted by NYT's the Upshot, a large line item, since removed, showed a con ...

With color as the visual encoding, choose the scales that allow you to see actual patterns.

The administration continues its takedown of data that it doesn't agree with. To get ahead of the wave, if by just a little, Andrew Van Dam for Washington Post's Department of Data char ...

The Department of Government Efficiency claims data in the Social Security Administration database shows 150-year-olds receiving benefits. Probably not. For Wired, David Gilbert reports: Because CO ...

Coming up on 50 years old, Gina Trapani mapped out her life so far in one-week segments. Colors indicate decades and significant moments in time get text. The timeline is at 49 years old and goes u ...