Nathan Yau

From Dave Taylor, this world map shows tidal ranges , from microtidal to macrotidal: It's soothing, almost like staring out at the ocean.

Early voting isn't coming in as hot as in 2020, but there are still a lot. For the Washington Post, Alyssa Fowers and Hannah Recht are using estimates from Associated Press

By now you've seen or chosen to ignore forecasts that provide probabilities for a presidential candidate winning the election.

The inner semicircles represent views for presidential ads, and the less prominent outer semicircles represent views for other ads from the respective party.

In NBA basketball, the home team used to almost always wear a white uniform and the away team would wear a non-white uniform that matched one of their team colors. Now it's kind of all over the place. I assume it's because Nike wanted to sell more jerseys. For The Pudding,

For NYT Upshot, Ronda Kaysen and Ethan Singer compared current voter registration data against 2020 data to estimate how people moved away from politically balanced neighborhoods . Those who voted for a given party were much more likely to move to places that were similar politically.

Hey, it's Nathan. This is the Process , the newsletter for FlowingData members where we talk about the finer details of analyzing data and chart-making.

This is very important. How did your favorite candy rate? The old FiveThirtyEight ran a head-to-head between Halloween candies years ago . I used the data for the above, which should be taken very seriously.

NPR reports on the drying Central Asia water sources . The Aral Sea has been drying for the past 60 years, and if its source rivers dry up too, much of the region will become uninhabitable. A combination of satellite imagery, photographs, and maps help tell the story.

For The New York Times, Lily Boyce, Jon Huang, and Blacki Migliozzi made a game-like interactive that lets you explore the possibilities of winning the Electoral College. Simply drag a state toward…