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Google Maps is getting a lot more detail

The Verge

Image: Google. The end result does a much better job of showing off the differences between natural features, such as between snowy peaks and dense forests or green fields and sandy beaches. The comparison shots below give an idea of what the new color-mapping technique is capable of. Image: Google.

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How Nonprofits Can Tell Powerful Stories Through Data Visualization 

Allegiance Group

People are better at recalling information from images than text. But pair that text with an image, and we remember 65% of the information communicated. So, we designed a bar chart using red and green to indicate good or bad to alleviate the confusion. However, roughly 8% of people are red-green color blind.

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Best of Tableau Web: September 2021

Tableau

Ever since I unknowingly developed a traditional red-yellow-green scorecard for someone with a common color vision deficiency I am especially interested in accessibility. As this side-by-side comparison clearly demonstrates, too many colors makes it difficult to identify a specific sub-category at a glance.

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Real-time tracking of wildfire boundaries using satellite imagery

Google Research AI blog

These provide continent-scale images every 10 minutes. Image from NASA Worldview ] Determining the precise extent of a wildfire is nontrivial, since fires emit massive smoke plumes, which can spread far from the burn area and obscure the flames. Himawari-8 hyperspectral image of a wildfire.

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Are you ready to eat your delicious nutrient square? Yum, yum, yum

The Verge

Image: SquarEat. When images of its products started doing the rounds on Twitter this week most people were similarly confused, with its square meals drawing comparisons to dystopian TV shows and films like Snowpiercer and Soylent Green. Image: SquarEat. Image: SquarEat. There’s nothing else.”.

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The OLED Nintendo Switch doesn’t have a Pentile screen

The Verge

But there’s been speculation ever since the OLED Switch was announced that its panel might use Pentile technology, which could have had big implications for image quality. The layout is actually a little unusual, with columns of blue subpixels next to smaller, alternating red and green ones rather than arranging them in uniform RGB lines.

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Four new Apple Powerbeats Pro colors appear to have leaked

The Verge

Image: WinFuture. Apple looks set to release its true wireless Powerbeats Pro in four new colors if a series of leaked images published by WinFuture are to be believed. The images show the true wireless earbuds in red, pink, light blue, and yellow. Last August, the company released the earbuds in white, green, and dark blue.