Kate Golden of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism had a hunch that Wisconsin cows were something special. Taking a look at some National Agricultural Statistics Service data, she found that despite a nearly constant decrease in the number of cows on Wisconsin dairy ...
Adult diabetes and obesity are two of the most pressing concerns in America today. Taking the USDA's Activity Rates and Health Living dataset, Annette Greiner has made this in depth visualization to call attention to the problem.
Ever wondered why obesity is such a problem in the United States? This is an interactive visualization which shows the correlation between three activities and obesity by county. Every county in this visualization has obesity rates above the worldwide average.
The hurricane season of 2005 was one of the most dramatic and damaging in the history of the United States. This viz details the lives of every major hurricane that season.
Professor Kosara of UNC Charlotte took a look at temperature data from 343 weather stations over twenty years (77172 observations) compared to the baseline numbers in the 1970s and 2000s.