2025-01-17 00:56:49
The 2024 US Presidential Election Eclipse infographic. A cool way to use a Dorling cartogram. You still have the general shape of the US, but sizing is representative of the number of total votes casts. Then the additional use of a “solar eclipse” look to visualize the votes for the winning party. Created by Kenneth Field with ArcGIS. Make sure to check out the hi-rez copy.
This map portrays the US states as a Dorling cartogram with each state shown as a circular symbol proportional to the total votes cast. It illustrates not only the winner in each state, but also a number of additional metrics using moonpie symbols that show the percentage obscuration caused by the winning party (akin to a solar eclipse). Whether they won or lost, Democrats are on the left of the symbols and Republicans on the right.
Professionally, I’m fascinated with election maps. As a designer and critic in the data visualization community, I don’t think anyone has really gotten this design challenge right…yet.
I really like this design because it shows the impact of both party’s votes in each state. Too many of the usual designs only show the winning party, but the Dorling design does a good job of showing both the winning and losing party votes in each state. I also appreciate the subtle left/right placement of the party votes in each state.
Found on Bluesky. Thanks to Steve Wexler for sharing!
2024-12-27 08:36:35
As the year comes to a close, you may be considering some last-minute charitable donations. You may not realize that a number of tools and organizations within the data visualization community are supported by donations and need your help. Here are four data visualization tools and organizations that are donation-funded.
Processing Foundation is the non-profit organization behind Processing, p5.js, and the p5.js Editor. Every year, they support over a million creative coders of all ages around the world through software development and public programs.
100% of your donation will support software development and maintenance.
RAWGraphs is an open source data visualization framework built with the goal of making the visual representation of complex data easy for everyone.
Primarily conceived as a tool for designers and vis geeks, RAWGraphs aims at providing a missing link between spreadsheet applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, OpenRefine) and vector graphics editors
The Data Visualization Society fosters a community where every member benefits from resources that support growth, refinement, and expansion of data visualization knowledge regardless of expertise level.
Their mission is to invest in communication platforms and events to connect members, education platforms for teaching and learning, and leveraging those resources to foster skills growth, knowledge exchange, and meaningful critique.
Non-profits around the world are driving positive social change, but many of them lack the in-house resources to effectively tell their story with the data they have.
Viz for Social Good helps non-profits thrive in the digital age by connecting them with talented data visualization enthusiasts in collaborative projects. The impactful visuals created by our volunteers have helped our partners raise awareness of their causes, advocate for their initiatives in front of important stakeholders, aid in fundraising efforts critical to their operations, and make data-driven decisions.
2024-10-12 02:26:23
How Long Can People Cover Their Needs Without Income? infographic by Visual Capitalist.
How Long Can People Cover Their Needs Without Income?
With nearly half of people under 34 worldwide unable to cover their needs for a month or less without income, it is no surprise that financial resiliency is a hot topic.
So, for this graphic, Visual Capitalist has partnered with Lloyd’s Register Foundation to explore economic resilience further and determine how long the average person can afford to cover their needs without income.
World Risk Poll 2024 Report: Economic Resilience
Lloyd’s Register Foundation produces the World Risk Poll every two years in partnership with Gallup, and the World Risk Poll 2024 report explores the everyday risks of 147,000 people from 142 nations.
They asked respondents how long they could afford to cover basic needs, such as food, transport, and shelter, if they lost all income.
The results reveal a distinct trend across all age groups, with respondents typically falling into two categories: those with one month or less of financial runway, and those with more than four months. Relatively fewer respondents reported being able to survive two to three months.
I think this is a really interesting adaptation of a Sankey/Alluvial diagram. I’d like to see summaries of each timeframe to support their discussion around trends.
Found on Visual Capitalist.
2024-08-23 00:26:31
The Generation Gap infographic by Steve Perry highlights the birth years of different generations. The stats from 2022 led him to develop a few fun facts of the differences between the generations.
Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest generation in the United States, with an estimated population of over 72 million. While Millennials and Gen Z face challenges in building wealth, with factors such as student loan debt and rising home prices, Baby Boomers tend to have the highest wealth accumulation, with only 20% of the population they have 52% of the wealth in the country, benefiting from longer periods of economic growth and home ownership. Older generations have traditionally had higher voter turnout rates compared to younger generations. Millennials and Generation X are becoming increasingly politically engaged. Older generations are also delaying retirement and staying in the workforce longer, leading to a “graying” of the labor force and potential competition for job opportunities with younger generations.
Found on Tableau Public’s Viz of the Day
2024-08-02 01:11:23
Pin Point: The Most Common 4-digit PIN numbers by Information is Beautiful was a redesign of Nick Berry’s original work. Having a pin that’s easy for you to remember, could also be an easy one to guess. Check out this infographic and see how safe your favorite PIN may be.
Chip and PIN card, phone passcode, hotel safe – how predictable is your chosen PIN number?
3.4 million data points visualized from several data breaches.
Created by the late great Nick Berry of Data Genetics (redesigned and used with permission). He wrote a great data story around this which is also worth a read.
I really like this heatmap. Visually, it reveals a number of insights from the data:
The diagonal line shows the PINs where two digits are repeated to create a 4-digit PIN. 1111, 3434, 5050, etc.
The lower left corner is brighter with PINs starting with low numbers, generally representing dates. The section goes to the right up to the number 31, representing the day. Birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
There is a bright horizontal line of PINs starting with “19” the wraps into a line starting with “20”, representing a year that someone has chosen for some significance. Birth year, wedding, graduation, etc.
The black squares are the least used PIN numbers, also listed at the bottom of the infographic.
Found on Information is Beautiful.
2024-05-01 22:45:15
The Mammoth Cost of Operating America’s Combat Aircraft shows the operating cost per aircraft in 2018. Statista created this infographic when the non-partisan U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released an overview of mission capable rates and the cost of operating U.S. military aircraft in 2020. Over 40 aircrafts were examined, Statista chose to highlight these 15 in their infographic.
The non-partisan U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released an overview of mission capable rates and the cost of operating U.S. military aircraft. It examined more than 40 different aircraft types, finding that only three of them reached their mission capable goals between fiscal years 2011 and 2019. In total, the report put the collective cost of operating all of the U.S. military's aircraft fleets at $49 billion in fiscal year 2018, taking operational & support (O&S) costs such as maintenance as well as supply support in account. O&S generally makes up 70 percent of a weapon system's total life cycle costs and it includes spare parts, depot and field maintenance, contract services, engineering support and personnel, amongst other factors.
It would be nice to see how many we have in service too. The stacked bars work well. As a reader you can tell the values between operating/support and maintenance, but the total is what matters.
Read more at Statista