Visualization

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

Math gender gap bigger in richer school districts

This is quite the scatterplot from Claire Cain Miller and Kevin Quealy for…

Ancient Earth globe shows where you were located 750 million years ago

In a spin on the view of ancient Earth and the shift of…

Convert an image to LEGO brick shopping list in R

Every day you wish you could convert a picture of your family or…

History of the health meter in video games

The health meter in video games wasn’t always so commonplace. It took time,…

Unsolved killings mapped

Thousands of homicides. Some cases result in an arrest. Many end up unsolved.…

All the volcano eruptions

Slowly becoming the person who charts the past century of natural disaster events,…

Original map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood

The ink-drawn map of Hundred Acre Wood by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator E. H. Shepard…

Imagining gigantic places with satellite imagery

Artist Marcus Lyon imagines worlds where there are so many people that the…

Vintage chart shows the evolution in design of everyday objects

By Raymond Loewy, this chart from 1934 shows the shifts in design of…

Nigel Holmes new illustrated book on Crazy Competitions

Nigel Holmes, the graphic designer known for his playful illustrated graphics, has a…

What’s in a food truck

Food trucks are the real deal these days. The best ones serve a…

A visualization game to understand education and school segregation

Educate Your Child by Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee uses census data and the school…

Subway delays visually explained

Adam Pearce for The New York Times describes the sad state of affairs…

What data visualization is for

Eric Rodenbeck from Stamen Design discusses visualization the medium over visualization the tool…

Comparison of terms and conditions lengths

Most of us don’t read the terms and conditions before we click on…

Tweeting a map of every Census tract in the United States

By Neil Freeman, the @everytract bot on Twitter, as the name suggests, is…

Mapping a diverse but segregated America

Aaron Williams and Armand Emamdjomeh for The Washington Post delve into diversity and…

A game to better understand the wisdom (and madness) of crowds

You’ve probably heard of the wisdom of crowds. The general idea, popularized by…