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Shift in white population vs. people of color
The New York Times go with the angled arrows to show the shifts in racial population. The red-orange arrows show an increase in the share of white population, and the teal arrows show an increase in...
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Race and ethnicity map of dots
CNN goes with the dot density map for their first pass on the 2020 decennial. Each dot represents a certain number of people depending on your zoom level. Color represents race or ethnicity. Does CNN...
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Black mortality gap
Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area chart to show the difference between two mortality rates. Each dot represents 10 people, and they start as a random cloud. A...
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Black neighborhoods split by highways
Rachael Dottle, Laura Bliss and Pablo Robles for Bloomberg on how urban highways often split communities: By the 1960s, the neighborhood’s business core was gone, replaced by newly constructed...
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Census Mapper, a tool to visualize population and racial shifts
Pitch Interactive and the Census 2020 Data Co-op, supported by the Google News Initiative, made a tool that lets you easily map population shifts since 2010. It’s called Census Mapper. Built with...
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F1 Racing results plotted as lightning
Joey Cherdarchuk used a lightning metaphor to visualize the outcomes of races from the 2021 season. The x-axis represents how far ahead or behind the each racer is compared to the average. The y-axis...
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Evolution of race categories in U.S. Census forms
For The New York Times, K.K. Rebecca Lai and Jennifer Medina show the changing checkboxes over the past couple centuries: Over the centuries, the census has evolved from one that specified broad...
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Commonness of Races in Different Occupations
Some jobs are worked commonly by people of a certain race or ethnicity more than others. Farm managers are almost all white, postal service processors are half black, manicurists are 65% Asian, and...
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Race and Occupation
About 22 percent of physicians in the United States are Asian, but Asian people only make up about 6 percent of the full working population. Compare the former to the latter, and you could say that...
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Racial bias in OpenAI GPT resume rankings
AI is finding its way into the HR workflow to sift through resumes. This seems like a decent idea on the surface, until you realize that the models that the AI is built on lean more towards certain...
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