Infographics

Telling stories with data and graphics.

Serena Williams beat every Grand Slam champion

Serena Wiliams’ tennis career is impressive for its success and longevity, which are…

Animated charts to show sports results

Krisztina Szűcs likes to make animated charts to show sports results, from fencing,…

Science of the tennis toss

To serve the ball in tennis, a player first tosses the ball in…

Gerrymandering detection with simulations

Harry Stevens, for The Washington Post, how simulations can be used to detect…

Losses and comebacks of Serena Williams

We tend to celebrate the wins in sports and often forget about or…

Welcome to Meltsville

It’s getting hot in cities around the world, each city with its own…

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…