Infographics

Telling stories with data and graphics.

Beautiful News, a book charting the good things in the world

From David McCandless and team, who you might know from such books as…

Black mortality gap

Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area…

Bitcoin power usage

You might have heard that Bitcoin uses a lot of electricity. More than…

How vaccines can make a difference with the Delta variant

We see percentages for the vaccinated and unvaccinated, and people can easily misinterpret…

Olympic champions versus past Olympians

With the 2020 Olympics wrapped up, The New York Times raced this year’s…

Science behind running fast vs. running far

From The New York Times, the combination of video, motion graphics, and charts,…

Visual guide to redistricting

Gerrymandering continues to be an important thread that I think many people still…

New Olympic sports explained

The 2020 Summer Olympics are here, so ’tis the season for experimental visual…

Olympic event visual explainers

With the Olympics starting on Friday, The New York Times started their coverage…

Rise of K-pop

K-pop seems to be inescapable these days, which really confuses me. Marian Liu,…

How long it takes a ball to drop on various Solar System bodies

James O’Donoghue made this straightforward animation that shows how long it takes for…

How big tech grew by acquiring small tech

Big tech — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook — got big and then…

Joy Generator

NPR put together a set of stories, videos, and interactives about bringing more…

How the ultrarich use a Roth IRA to get more rich

ProPublica continues their analysis of an anonymous IRS tax records dump. In their…

Passing restrictive voting bills

Bloomberg used a Sankey diagram to show the path of over a thousand…

Welcome to heat dome

It’s hot here in the western United States, and it’s only mid-June. From…

Measuring centuries-old droughts through tree rings

To measure drought in the present day, we use data from sensors that…

Collapse of Mexico City Metro explained

The New York Times investigated the collapse of the Metro, which killed 26…