Mapzen just released a Tron-style slippy map. Today we introduce TRON version 2 as a fully realized Mapzen house style, …
I love the statistics lessons coming out of the Upshot, in the context of the upcoming election. In their most …
Last month Pitch Interactive launched an online tool for tiled cartograms, or tilegrams for short. Upload your state-by-state data, and …
I often stare far into the distance and ponder world’s greatest questions — like when specific spells were used in …
Maciej Ceglowski, the creator of bookmarking site Pinboard, spoke at the Library of Congress a couple of weeks ago about …
Florida has seen a lot of hurricanes come and go. Lazaro Gamio for the Washington Post looks at all the …
Based on data from researchers at Yale, the Upshot charts party registration by medical profession. Surgery and anesthesiology lean Republican, …
For those who work with R and d3.js, the differences between the two are obvious. But for those who are …
Stay safe, Florida.
The Simpsons is in its 27th season. That’s a lot of d’ohs. Todd W. Schneider had a look at the …
A look at the rise for each state over three decades, for men and women.
But not every group’s median income increased by the same amount.
Americans get most of their alcohol from beer, but it’s not like that everywhere.
Raising kids is hard to explain. I’ll try anyways. With some charts.
Keep track of the 214 days out of the year that are a national food or drink days.
Here’s how common each household type is and was — and how the makeup compares to a few decades ago.
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There are many ways to show parts of a whole. Here are quick one-liners for the more common ones.
Try the more element-based approach instead of your traditional histogram or boxplot.
Use a force-directed graph to form a collection of bubbles and move them around based on data.
Instead of traditional pie charts that rely on angles and arc lengths to show parts of a whole, try this easier-to-read version.
Visualization is complex, but if I were to break it down simply, I’d say it’s something like the process below. …
Here are some tips to get you started, based on my own experiences with R, and more recently, the JavaScript library d3.js.
“What tool should I learn? ” I hesitate to answer, because I use what works best for me, which isn’t necessarily the best for someone else or the “best” overall. Nevertheless, here’s my toolset.
