What do fishermen in Maine, aerospace engineers in Kansas and casino owners in Nevada all have in common? We are humbled by the continued growth of our audience. ... As an interactive journalist at The Times newspaper, my job is to make interesting and engaging data visualization for our readers to help further explain a news story. However the trend across thousands of companies makes for an effective point of view. It was a delightful surprise. 3. The American Time Use Survey recently released results for 2018. Dance, Richard Harris, and Mark Hansen. But make no mistake – it isn’t easy to effectively combine emotion with cutting-edge technology. Make great charts. Of course, there’s no reason we can’t have it all. It’s a common visual device to show the scale of things. Tourism increased in 2018 around the world, bringing with it billions of dollars of economic activity.

We reflect on some of the best examples of Data Visualization throughout 2018, before focussing on some of the not-so-good and how these can be improved. We love making complex issues immediately understandable. Thanks for your interest in purchasing a high-quality poster of this visualization. And yet the numbers we're comparing can be head-spinning.

And which industries have the most valuable brands? [See the Project / On FlowingData], While not quite an explainer, the Olympic medal piece by Josh Katz for The New York Times did a fine job showing how weights change the ranking the of countries. The iPhone X Index: This Chart Shows How Ridiculously Long You Have to Work to Get One, 7. We are humbled by the continued growth of our audience. Here are seven examples of data visualization : 1 – Cinema: Explaining a movie plot through data visualization Visualizing How Vulnerable is Each State to a Trade War, 2. The winners and losers in the competition for visitors might surprise you, with several countries posting multi-billion-dollar inflows. Comparing Cryptocurrency Against the Entire World’s Wealth in One Graph, 16. [See the Project / On FlowingData], Lauren Tierney for The Washington Post compared the size of California wildfires against the location of your choosing. This Map Shows Every State's Biggest Export, 10. We don’t all start our work days at the same time, despite what morning rush hour might have you think.

President Trump continues to shake the business world with his trade war rhetoric, causing "yuge" amounts of unease in the financial markets. How Much Longer Until the U.S. Debt Bubble Bursts? [See the Project / On FlowingData], Joel Simon used genetic algorithms to “optimize” floor plans, and the results were weird and amusing. We wanted to understand which states are most vulnerable in the changing trade landscape. 18. From airplanes to medicine, diamonds and oil, the U.S. sends huge quantities of goods into the global economy.

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