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2023

January 8   Escaping the Malthusian Trap ·

2022

July 22   Unhappy in its Own Way · June 29   Skyline Timeline · June 24   New York Building Ages · June 23   Manhattan Building Heights · May 20   Every Springer Math Text · May 11   Academia Explained · April 27   Map and Nested Lists · April 10   Indexing Iterations with set_names() · April 8   Iterating on the GSS · February 15   Clustering Pundits · February 14   Desktop Mac ·

2021

December 19   Comparing Distributions · October 30   The Polarization of Death · October 21   Excess Deaths in 2020 · October 9   Building a PDP-11/70 Kit · September 3   Covid Trajectories · May 4   Map, Walk, Pivot · May 2   Contributions to the Literature · February 24   Excess Deaths February Update · January 26   Income and Happiness · January 8   What Happened? ·

2020

December 18   Cross National Death Rates · October 10   Excess Deaths Overview · October 8   Excess Deaths by Jurisdiction · October 6   Excess Deaths by Cause · October 1   Walk the Walk · September 26   National Weekly Death Rates · September 24   US Excess Mortality · September 14   Dataviz Interview · August 25   Some Data Packages · June 3   The Politics of Disorder · May 23   Get Apple's Mobility Data · May 21   The Kitchen Counter Observatory · May 9   Covid Concept Generator · April 28   New Orleans and Normalization · April 23   Apple's COVID Mobility Data · April 16   Upset Plots · April 10   Covdata Package · March 28   This Is Just to Try to Say · March 27   A COVID Small Multiple · March 21   Covid 19 Tracking · March 15   U.S. Census Counts Data · March 14   Animating U.S. Population Distributions · March 7   This Be the Kirsch · March 5   Spanish Flu · February 26   A New Baby Boom Poster · February 18   Dataviz Workshop at RStudio::conf ·

2019

November 10   Cleaning the Table · November 9   Reading in Data · October 28   Dogs of New York · October 27   Reconstructing Images Using PCA · October 21   Widening Multiple Columns Redux · October 15   Parsing Sda Pages · August 3   Rituals of Childhood · June 23   Earned Doctorates · May 13   Baby Name Animation · March 22   A Quick and Tidy Look at the 2018 GSS · March 18   Frank Oz Muppets and the Big Five Personality Traits · March 12   Installing Socviz · March 12   The Persistence of the Old Regime, Again · February 25   Four Dataviz Posters · February 7   Statswars · January 2   Dataviz Course Packet Quickstart ·

2018

December 27   French Mortality Poster · December 12   Teaching and Learning Materials for Data Visualization · December 9   Canada Map · December 4   Heatmaps of Mortality Rates · November 19   Zero Counts in dplyr · November 17   Congress Over Time · November 6   Spreading Multiple Values · September 12   Asa Section Demographics · August 24   A Comprehensive Guide to Social Scientists · August 1   I Can't Believe It's Not Butter · May 31   Conversational Disciplines · April 10   Visualizing the Baby Boom · April 8   Animated Population Pyramids in R · April 7   Us Monthly Births · April 6   Filling Ordered Facets From the Bottom Row · March 24   Making Slides · January 6   Dataviz Signup ·

2017

October 26   Media Lab · October 2   Assault Deaths to 2015 · September 14   Radio Nuance · September 7   A Data Visualization Work in Progress · June 27   A Little More Nuance · April 6   Saying no to Pie · March 14   CBO Estimates for the AHCA · January 19   Rank Error in Your Favor ·

2016

November 28   Flipped Counties in the 2016 Election · September 29   Opiate-Related Deaths in the US, 1999-2014 · September 12   Vaccination Beeplot · July 23   Transformative Treatments · July 16   Facetiming the Coup · June 28   SASE Panel on The Moral Economy of Technology · April 28   How Rude · April 8   Tironian Notes · March 10   The Protracted Game · March 9   Plain Text and Pictures · February 18   Walled Garden ·