Visualization

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

Mapping chemical plants, the pollution around them, and more chemical plants

ProPublica, with The Advocate and The Times-Picayune, estimated chemical concentrations in a highly…

Worst performing circuits mapped with fire risk

This month PG&E has been shutting down power to thousands of households in…

High-resolution satellite image of Kincade fire, up close from far away

I feel like satellite imagery has upped its skillset in recent years. According…

Kincade fire in Sonoma County via satellite imagery

You can see the time-lapsed imagery with this browser. [via @weatherdak]…

How Charts Lie

Charts can reveal truths that we never would see otherwise, but they can…

Visualizing the Friends sitcom

Marion Rouayroux, a graphic designer and a big fan of the show Friends,…

Photographs from above, an Overview

Overview is an ongoing project that uses a zoomed out view for a…

Scientology city takeover

For Tampa Bay Times, Tracey McManus and Eli Murray delve into the purchasing…

Fall foliage colors mapped

For The Washington Post, Lauren Tierney and Joe Fox mapped fall foliage colors…

Fixing the ‘impeach this’ map with a transition to a cartogram

As discussed previously, the “impeach this” map has some issues. Mainly, it equates…

Animated line chart to show the rich paying less taxes

David Leonhardt, for The New York Times, discusses the relatively low tax rates…

The early beginnings of visual thinking

Visualization is a relatively new field. Sort of. The increased availability of data…

Game: How many US cities can you name?

How many US cities can you name? Here’s a quick and fun game…

Diverging line plot as the perfect comic

This is perfect. Willikin Wolf made characters out of two dots moving along…

Pixelation to represent endangered species counts

In 2008, the World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign that used pixelation to…

Detailed generative art in R

Thomas Lin Pedersen has been sharing his generative art pieces as of late:…

Street suffixes show the organization of cities

The suffixes on street names can say a lot about a neighborhood. A…

Analysis of street network orientation in cities

Continuing his analysis of street grid-iness in cities around the world, Geoff Boeing…