For ProPublica, Ian MacDougall and Sergio Hernandez evaluated records of sitting justices to gauge the rights at risk of being taken away. Each right gets a section with background, bills and court cases challenging the right, and the justices that have questioned the right through judicial opinions and public remarks. Tags: ProPublica, rights, Supreme Court ..read more

In an effort to provide a more transparent process in visualization and interaction research, The Journal of Visualization and Interaction begins: The Journal of Visualization and Interaction (JoVI) is a venue for publishing scholarly work related to the fields of visualization and human-computer interaction. Contributions to the journal include research in: how people understand and interact with information and technology, innovations in interaction techniques, interactive systems, or tools, systematic literature reviews, replication studies or reinterpretations of existing work, research ..read more

Welcome to The Process, where we look closer at how the charts get made. This is issue #241. I’m Nathan Yau, and this week we continue with chart practice, this time focusing on the small things you can improve while still getting your work done. Become a member for access to this — plus tutorials, courses, and guides ..read more

To better understand the scale of time and feed your existential dread, Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh used LED lights spread miles across a desert, proportional to milestones in the history of the universe. The model stretched 4.3 miles to represent 13.8 trillion years. See also the seven-mile scale model of the Solar System, which is another video in their To Scale series. [via kottke] Tags: Alex Gorosh, scale, time, Wylie Overstreet ..read more

This is a good example of things are not quite what they seem until you look at more data. Andrew Van Dam, for Washington Post’s Department of Data, looks into why it appears red states hire more than blue states. Tags: hiring, Washington Post, work ..read more

Add another geolocation guessing game that I am terrible at. TimeGuessr shows you a photograph, and you guess when and where it was taken. Tags: game, guess ..read more

Baseball games grew longer over the decades, with the average length well over three hours in recent years. Ben Blatt and Francesca Paris, for NYT’s The Upshot, show how a few rule changes this season keep the ball moving for shorter games. Tags: baseball, time, Upshot ..read more

Welcome to The Process, where we look closer at how the charts get made. Throughout the month, I look for tools and guides that might help you make charts faster and better and then round them up at the end. Here’s what bubbled up for May 2023. Become a member for access to this — plus tutorials, courses, and guides ..read more

With a cross between the games Wordle and GeoGuessr, Russell Samora for The Pudding made a daily game that challenges you to geolocate a place based on images of the place from Wikimedia Commons. You get five guesses to click on a map, and after each guess you get a new image and the number of miles you were off. Tags: game, geolocation, Pudding, Russell Samora, Wordle ..read more

When you think of household types in the United States, the most common ones probably come to mind: single, married couple, married couple with a kid, or married couple with two kids. But there are thousands of others. Let’s look at all of them. Read More ..read more