Visualization

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

Draw a ridgeline map showing elevation, for anywhere on Earth

Ridgeline charts or frequency trails use parallel lines that overlap on the fluctuations,…

Timelines to make you feel old

One of the best ways to feel old is to look to your…

Urban growth via satellite imagery

For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui looked for major urban developments…

One leaked file, the location of 12 million smartphones

A file leaked to The New York Times contained location traces of 12…

Making invisible gas leaks visible

For The New York Times, Jonah M. Kessel and Hiroko Tabuchi went to…

Arctic ice melting

One way to gauge the amount of ice in the Arctic is to…

Where Christmas trees come from

For The Washington Post, Tim Meko and Lauren Tierney: Before the 1930s, Christmas…

Color breakdown of Scientific American covers

For Scientific American, Nicholas Rougeux and Jen Christiansen show the shift in hues…

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2019

As I do every year, I picked my ten favorite visualization projects. Here they are in no particular order.

How online school ratings are flawed

Standardized ratings are a challenge, because they often try to encapsulate many variables…

Using old ship logs as a window into the weather in the 1800s

For Reuters, Feilding Cage describes a weather time machine project by NOAA that…

Haikus generated based on your map location and OpenStreetMap data

Satellite Studio made a map thing that generates haikus based on OpenStreetMap data…

Everything in the universe

In this video, Dominic Walliman attempts to illustrate and explain all of the…

Scroll, scroll, scroll through the depths of the ocean

The oceans are deep. But how deep and what’s down there? Neal Agarwal…

Compare your city’s air pollution to the rest of the world

High air pollution can lead to serious health risks, but you can’t usually…

Fashion runway color palette

From Google Arts & Culture: We came together with The Business of Fashion…

Traveling Salesman art

Robert Bosch likes to use the Traveling Salesman Problem to draw famous portraits…

2,774 miles traveled by a lone wolf

From the Voyageurs Wolf Project, a map shows the travels of a lone…