Infographics

Telling stories with data and graphics.

Lagging coronavirus testing in the US

Coronavirus testing in the United States has been a slow process to say…

Simulations for virus spread with social distancing

Social distancing is the game plan these days. Try to stay at home…

Change in foot traffic in outbreak cities

From The Economist, this chart shows the (mostly) decrease in foot traffic in…

How gears work

Bartosz Ciechanowski took a deep dive into how gears work and the physics…

Coronavirus life cycle

For The New York Times, Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer describe how the…

Visual explanation of exponential growth and epidemics

3Blue1Brown explains exponential growth and epidemics and answers the question of when the…

How different groups voted on Super Tuesday

The New York Times has a rundown of what happened on Super Tuesday,…

Small multiples pizza baby

For each month in her child’s first year, Amanda Makulec took a picture…

Face mask respirator and its usefulness with different beard styles

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made this graphic to show what…

Grandpa Chad distribution

xkcd crossed a rough age distribution of people becoming grandparents with people named…

Map of mathematics

The Map of Mathematics from Quanta Magazine explains key concepts with animated visualizations:…

Scale of Bloomberg net worth

While we’re on the topic of Mike Bloomberg’s money, here’s another view from…

Bloomberg ad spending, relative to other candidates’

Mike Bloomberg’s ad spending might not be that much relative to his own…

Most often missed areas while washing hands

This graphic from WakeMed shows the areas most often missed while washing hands.…

Printing money at the speed of various wages

Neal Agarwal used a money printing metaphor to depict differences in various wages.…

A tour of the king’s tattoos

DR used a 3-D model to recreate King Frederick the 9th’s ink: King…

Questionable science diagrams

Sometimes illustrating scientific findings is a challenge. Sometimes the illustrations are published anyways,…

Cow representation in the Senate

For the Absurd America section of The Washington Post, Sergio PeƧanha asks the…