Visualization

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

Opportunity rover’s path on Mars

After a most unforgiving dust storm on Mars, NASA ended the 14-year mission…

Language used for the wall

For The Upshot, Kevin Quealy continues on his path looking at the words…

Generate a noise field from an image

Kjetil Golid made an interactive that lets you generate a noise field using…

Scale of Star Wars characters and ships

It’s the scale of significant Star Wars characters, objects, and ships from Episode…

Evolution of the periodic table of elements

As more elements were discovered, the table grew and changed layout. For Science…

Distorting geography to show train travels

Jan Willem Tulp visualized train travel times using distance and color as an…

Recursive painting in real life

It started with a mom holding her painting of a bird. Then someone…

Average view of Earth from space

Using a year’s worth of daily images from NASA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer…

News story lifespan charts

A wideout view of the news cycle can look like a series of…

Evolution of the alphabet

Matt Baker provides this nifty diagram on how the alphabet changed over the…

Closeness in relationships over time, illustrated with a couple of lines

Cartoonist Olivia de Recat illustrated the closeness over time for various relationships. Charming.…

See every member’s path to the House of Representatives

For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy and Jessia Ma visualized the path…

xkcd: technical analysis

Seems about right.…

Rail delay scarf goes for $8,500 on eBay

Sarah Weber posted a picture of a scarf that her mom knit to…

Scale of tens

I’m always up for some scaled perspective. From David Packer: Anyone need a…

Real-time speed of light from Earth to Mars

Hurry up, light. We’re gonna be late: By James O’Donoghue, the animation shows…

Personality quiz with traits on a spectrum

Ah, the online personality quiz, oh how I missed you. Oh wait, this…

Inside out map of the Grand Canyon

John Nelson turned the Grand Canyon inside out to understand the magnitude better:…