Infographics

Telling stories with data and graphics.

Megaflood scenario

Highlighting research by Xingying Huang and Daniel L. Swain, who studied “plausible worst…

Breaking down the higher price on a restaurant receipt

If you’ve eaten at a restaurant lately, you might have noticed a substantially…

Tracked while reading about being tracked at work

While reading this NYT article, by Jodi Kantor and Arya Sundaram, on the…

Visual explanations for machine learning

As part of a teaching initiative by Amazon, MLU-Explain is a series of…

Sequoia tree wildfire protection

For Reuters, Travis Hartman, Ally J. Levine, and Anurag Rao describe the measures…

Melting popsicles to visualize a heat wave

Many European countries are experience record high temperatures, so The Washington Post used…

Why the galaxy pictures from the Webb telescope are pretty cool

The first public picture from the James Webb telescope is kind of cool…

Income ladder for the children of immigrants

You’ve probably seen the moving bubbles that show how something changes over time.…

Money distribution for streaming music

From the listener perspective, we pay our monthly or annual fees and just…

Absurd trolly problems

You’ve probably heard of the trolley problem, a thought experiment that imagines a…

Imagining carbon food labels

By purchasing certain foods, we make decisions about the carbon footprint from the…

Football field to show population change in the UK

The Office for National Statistics for the UK published an interactive to show…

Visualising Knowledge

Visualising Knowledge is an open book from PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, based…

Active shooter endings

For The New York Times, Larry Buchanan and Lauren Leatherby used Sankey diagrams…

Diagram of watercolors from the 17th century

In 1692, artist A. Boogert published a guide to watercolors, showing the thousands…

Garbage in space

There are thousands of satellites that orbit Earth, with about half of them…

Calculating the new cost of your summer road trip

With gas prices a lot higher than usual, JĂșlia Ledur, Leslie Shapiro, and…

Examination of songs after virality on TikTok

Vox, in collaboration with The Pudding, looked at what happens when a song…