2026-03-07 02:03:59
Reuters Graphics has a feed of maps and charts for updates on Iran. They’ve covered evacuations, activities from neighboring countries, marine and air traffic, and views from above. Three clocks show the current time in Tehran, Tel Aviv, and Washington, D.C.
2026-03-06 19:49:32
In 2017, researchers asked study participants via MTurk to list three happy moments they had in the past 24 hours. The researchers released the data as HappyDB, which provides 100,000 happy moments along with demographics. For the Pudding, Alvin Chang made an abstract map that places the moments based on less agency to more agency on the x-axis and immediate to long-term on the y-axis.
A Gemini LLM was used to classify the data into continents, countries, and states, based on type of happiness. You can zoom in to the individuals to read the moments and you can filter by location, age, sex, parental status, and marital status.
Having worked with this data a bit, I wonder if this map looks different if the ultrarich answered. Or maybe a yacht with five people on it just travels through the waterways.
Tags: Alvin Chang, happiness, Pudding
2026-03-06 03:51:40
ProPublica has been collecting thousands of disclosure documents, and they made a searchable database with the processed information.
Most political appointees and senior officials in the executive branch are required by law to file public financial disclosure reports. These are documents that detail their financial holdings, positions they hold outside government, their spouse’s holdings, their liabilities and their recent financial transactions (such as buying or selling stock) during a defined reporting period.
You can currently see the assets for the president and his 1,573 appointees, along with their roles outside government and compensation.
Tags: conflict, finance, politics, ProPublica
2026-03-05 22:07:49
About eight million Americans reported being unemployed, based on the Current Population Survey from January 2026. Why they were unemployed varies across groups. Here are the reasons by age and highest education attained.
2026-03-05 22:06:51
This week is about animating data to better show insights and to keep citizens of the internets engaged.
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2026-03-05 02:31:38
The New York Times mapped the traffic difference at the Strait of Hormuz, before and after the attacks on Iran.
Every day, around 80 oil and gas tankers typically pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway off Iran’s southern coast that carries a fifth of the world’s oil and a significant amount of natural gas.
On Monday, just two oil and gas tankers appear to have crossed the strait, according to a New York Times analysis of shipping activity from Kpler, an industry data firm. On Tuesday, one tanker passed through.
This uses the same data as the Zeit map, except the NYT comparison with moving dots looks more like an ant farm.
Tags: New York Times, ships, traffic, war
