Nearly all maps are an attempt to represent our environment (generally Earth) in a two-dimensional format. The act of systematically transposing a 3D to a 2D object is called projection, and it’s a ...

“Are we there yet?” It’s a classic question. You’re a kid. And you’re in the back seat of the car. And it’s an endless drive. And you just want to know “When, when, when will the wait be over?” And ...

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With the launching of 538, Vox and the New York Times’ Upshot, it seems like the age of data journalism is finally here, greeted with both acclaim and concern by media critics. But data journalism is ...

We see a moment coming when the collection of endless streams of data is commonplace. As this transition accelerates it is becoming increasingly apparent that our existing toolset for dealing with ...

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Picture this: you’re sitting in a car, and the car next to you starts to pull forward. For a moment you feel like you’re moving backwards. That brief feeling of disorientation, where the world is ...

In this piece, I’ll codify some of the lessons I’ve learned. If you’re already a remote developer, you may pick up some new tricks and a more rigorous way of thinking about how you work. If you are ...

This past summer, while researching awesome space photos for use in our “Field Guide to the Solar System,” I was struck by what an outsized contributor NASA’s Cassini probe was to the photographic ...

The job of a data journalist is to turn data into a story. If you start with a spreadsheet of cancer rates, the story might be “people living near oil refineries had three times the rate of lung ...

Data journalism draws on a remarkable array of skills—everything from statistics to graphic design to FOIA requests. It seems impossible to fit everything that aspiring data journalists might need ...

Earlier this week, ProPublica released their second font, Wee People, a free collection of human silhouettes. We love fonts and (tiny people and small multiples and wanted to know more, including the ...