Visualization

Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.

Leaving out keywords in a halftime show

I missed this one last week, pre-Super Bowl, but for The Washington Post,…

Flight map shows firefighting efforts

To contain the fires in Los Angeles, aircraft flew back and forth to…

Federal worker resignations

According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, about 65,000 federal workers have…

Common four-digit PINs of others

About 1 in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN, based on an…

Tracking daily federal expenditures

The Hamilton Project is tracking federal expenditures and updating daily: This data interactive…

Data bead bracelets

Data Beads, by Eszter Katona and Mihály Minkó, is a fun initiative that…

Book chart showing Barnes & Noble opening new stores

I assumed that Barnes & Noble was on its way out, but I…

Mapping the American Airlines and Army helicopter collision

The Washington Post mapped the flight paths leading up to the collision over…

See wind data on Mars through tele-present wind

With the art installation tele-present wind, David Bowen displays data collected by NASA's Perseverance rover mission.

Federal programs under review

A spreadsheet of 2,600 grant and loan programs circulated to federal agencies, alongside…

Overrated NBA all-star votes

NBA all-star voting is mostly for the fans, which means some players can…

Cozy game about cozy games

Cozy games are casual games that give you a warm, fuzzy feeling when…

Fastest-growing and most destructive fires

Using satellite data, researchers analyzed the growth rate of 60,000 fires in the…

Astoria, not the single-parent capital of America

In Kindergarten Cop, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s greatest works, a mother welcomes the…

Private school demographics

Private schools cost extra. So as you might imagine, the demographics, often tied…

Tracker for freezing temperatures

The forecast for the contiguous United States this week is cold, and below…

Young and alone

John Burn-Murdoch, for Financial Times (paywalled), breaks down data from the American Time…

Where you would feel richer and poorer

New to me, Bloomberg has an interactive by Claire Ballentine and Charlie Wells…