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Subbed data source, lower inflation estimate

What if you floated upwards one foot every second

Naval mine mechanics illustrated

Africa by Toto with the lyrics switched out for the countries

Shades of a lunar eclipse

✚ Faking real charts

Class action lawsuit for Grammarly

Grammarly pretends to provide expert reviews

Outdated data used in U.S. strike on elementary school in Iran

Choose the real music vs. generated

AI or human: writing passages

Pokemon tree of life

Satellite images that are AI fakes

Bird search patterns

Maps and charts for what is happening in Iran

Mapping what makes us happy

Database to explore conflicts of interest through financial disclosures

Unemployment reasons, by age and education

✚ Animating data for fun and interest

Oil supply chain slowdown

Marine traffic through the Strait of Hormus

Drones and modern warfare in Ukraine

Release your lantern

Unusual luck for streamers in the crypto casino Stake

Famous chess matches visualized as 3-D wireframes

Visual catalog of Isotype examples

Weather forecast app, with uncertainty as a core feature

✚ Visualization tools and resources, February 2026 roundup

Illustrated engineering in everyday objects

Mysteries of women’s clothing sizes

Regional biases and stereotypes in ChatGPT models

Dialed, a color memory game

Map of countries aligning with China

Geopolitical axis between the United States and China

Invalidated tariffs

Maps show not enough electricity in Cuba

Immigrants challenging their detention in historic number of cases

Coding on the train

Most common fields of study ranked by bachelor’s degrees conferred, since 1970

✚ Rank and order

Rise of Bad Bunny

Jeffrey Epstein’s network via 1.4m emails

Meta planning facial recognition with glasses

Ring cancels partnership with law enforcement supplier Flock

Dinosaurs, not dinosaurs

Ring cameras as large-scale surveillance system

✚ Tracing historical data for visual echoes

Searchable database of unregulated political contributions

Composite ski race to show 0.04-second win

10k fewer STEM PhDs employed by the federal government

Network map of Bluesky users

Mechanics of the Quad God’s quadruple axel

Less focused work with AI

Access to Winter Olympic sports near you

US population might decline for the first time

Why the best skiers don’t always win in the Olympics

Map of data center infrastructure

Disinformation swarms

ASCII art, visually explained

✚ Conversational data graphics

Tariff revenue is nowhere close to enough

Impact of tariffs on cost of goods

Jobs reports delayed, because government shutdown

Firefox will provide option to turn off AI features

Trying to make US postal workers count people for decennial census

Financial cliff of health subsidies

Isometric New York pixel art

Cumulative measles rising with South Carolina outbreak

Voter U-turns

Population drops and gains in every state

✚ Visualization tools and resources, January 2026 roundup

IsoCity, an open source city building game

Age verification on Roblox using AI is not good

Cuts to science and research in the U.S. over the past year

Gridded snowfall data

Trump family crypto accumulation

Big pile of money

Awful and better, Venn diagram

Pentagon Pizza dashboard to track activities

Mapping 200-mile formation of Chinese fishing boats

✚ Visualization audience types

Word mentions in quarterly earnings calls

How much temperatures increased where you live

Yeah, still getting hotter

Cast removed

Justice Department says DOGE might have used Social Security data for political purposes

American are paying for tariffs

Timelines for those still alive from “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

Falling vaccination rates in schools

Bandcamp bans generative AI music

Federal agents in Minnesota could outnumber total Twin Cities police

Names most likely to appear in the middle

✚ Remake the chart, from reference to interesting bits

Flight patterns when an exploding SpaceX Starship fills the sky with garbage

Losing American data

Your interpretation of uncertainty language compared

Infinite collaborative word search

DOGE hiring and non-hiring data

Job cuts for every federal agency

A word with a videoclip every day

Where generic medication comes from

Pizza declines in the U.S.

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, December 2025 Roundup

Printable calendar on a single page

Imagining a global lottery where you are born with less

New Year’s Resolutions for Men and Women

Network of presidential business deals

✚ A year of FlowingData, in 2025

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025

Trouble with AI chatbots that mimic people

Prediction market for all the things is mostly sports, but they don’t talk about that

Infinite New Year’s ball drop

College football happiness rankings

Network of deportation

Falling out of love with a chatbot

DOGE claims against reality

Best and worst decades of life are in the present

Marrying a ChatGPT-driven virtual partner

AI vending machine gets tested

Trump business network spreads

R climbs back up into the top ten programming languages

Times New Roman vs. Calibri typefaces

✚ Ridgeline chart for fun and clarity

Time With Others

Getting stuck in the mental health section of the TikTok algorithm

AI-generated recaps pulled by Amazon Prime Video

McDonald’s pulls AI-generated commercial, because terrible

More home owners turning to insurance last resort

Scale of living things

Online gambling brings in billions through state taxes

✚ Looking for the right angles into the data

Highlighting historical visualization

Zillow removed climate risk scores, because property-level modeling is not foolproof

Climate change driving home insurance higher

Rising cost of streaming

Geologic map of the United States’ surface

Personal dashboard for Costco spending

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, November 2025 Roundup

Towards zero traffic fatalities

Mapping the most dangerous intersections for pedestrians

Who Makes a Higher Salary – and the Jobs They Work

Growing political contributions from billionaires

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Making 10M government PDF documents searchable

Timeline for news coverage of trans communities

Epstein emails presented as a Gmail inbox

Visual reconstruction of flooding at Camp Mystic

Scale of one trillion dollars

✚ Claude, a year later

Scientists can track individual butterflies with tiny sensors

Name mentions in Epstein email cache

Troubling AI-powered toys

Shifts back to the left for Hispanic voters

Threats to democracy in the Congressional Record

Database of mound charging in baseball

Testing views of Earth through an LLM’s internals

✚ Disposable insights, quickly forgotten

Shifts left for every demographic group, 2025 elections

Imagining an extreeeeeme gerrymandered future

Damage by Hurricane Melissa, seen through satellite imagery

More OpenAI circular deals

China exports down in October

10k bird species visualized with feathers

Tariffs on U.S. imports, variable by country

Chinese exports grow, without the U.S.

✚ Spot the difference

With new rules for disability insurance, states that will be affected the most

Non-profit takes over a canceled NOAA database

How Men and Women Spend Their Days

Looking for an AI bubble in the markets

Big drop in Kennedy Center ticket sales

Camp Mystic map of spotty radio coverage, compared to a more complete proposal

Community 3-D-printed map

Increasing cost of healthcare if tax subsidies not extended

Decisions without data

Over-optimized children’s education for software metrics

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, October 2025 Roundup

Collecting all the croissants in Zürich

Statistics to find cheating sports gamblers

Math to map the world

xkcd shielding vs. forces matrix

Fashion color counting

Wikipedia losing human views to AI summaries

Bird migration flight paths, shifting with climate

What Qualifies as Middle-Income in Each State

✚ Silencing the noise by paying closer attention

Too soon to declare inflation victory

Historical (lack of) change in home prices in major cities

Lack of data during the shutdown, globally

Cartography of generative AI

Libraries dealing with generated books

Signs of AI writing on Wikipedia

50 Cent adjusted for inflation

iRobot founder with a practical view of AI and robotics

Cost of Living by State and Spending Category

✚ Sort the dots, like a table

Canceled $28B grants during government shutdown

Fraudulent disability claims through Veterans Affairs

Using mega batteries to power the evening

Cost of driving an electric vehicle vs. gas car

Circular deals among AI companies

Cash-poor millionaire households

Odds against you in sports parlays, advantage house

Unreliable library of human knowledge

✚ Overviewing and detailing

Mortality in the news vs. what we usually die from

The Oatmeal reviews AI art

Removing the process of creation

Analysis of TikTok usage, transforming new users to power users

ICE planning a surveillance system that integrates more data streams and 24/7 monitoring

LinkedIn sues company for fake bots

Millions of pounds of canceled food aid in the US

Passed peak social media, maybe

Getting more news from the TikTok

Undelivered USAID medical supplies and medicine

How Much Alcohol Americans Drink

✚ When a table is better than a graph

Merriam-Webster announces their new LLM

Census data down

Length of government funding gaps

Government shutdowns and disagreements in federal funding

Quantum mechanics of greenhouse gases