Visualization

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

Musical hexagons

This is a fun ditty by Vasco Asturiano. I’m a little too far…

Mapping global accessibility to cities

From The Malaria Atlas Project, a global map of estimated accessibility to cities:…

Scale comparison of wildfires

The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…

Spotting rip currents

Rip currents are like hidden rivers near the shore that head out to…

Obliteration Room invited people to put dotted stickers everywhere

The Obliteration Room (2012) by artist Yayoi Kusama started as a blank white…

Where athletes in professional sports come from

Sports are growing more international with respect to the athletes. Gregor Aisch, Kevin…

Most popular GIFs used to express emotion in different countries

People often use animated GIFs to digitally express caricatures of emotion or reaction.…

Mapping perceived canopy tree cover in major cities

Treepedia, from the MIT Senseable City Lab, estimates perceived tree cover at the…

Time-lapse shows night sky at varying levels of light pollution

One of my favorite childhood memories is the time I went camping and…

10 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2017

It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year.

Charting all the major California wildfires since 2000

Based on data from CAL FIRE, Erin Ross, for Axios, plotted California wildfires…

Getty Center fire resistance

Fire spread over Los Angeles, but the famous art works in the Getty…

Family displacements through urban renewal

Hundreds of thousands of families were displaced in the 1950s under “urban renewal”…

Ed Sheeran’s creative process explained with music visualization

The New York Times is back at it in explaining the creative process.…

Tax calculator that considers where you live

Here’s a different look at tax cuts and increases from Reuben Fischer-Baum for…

How your taxes will change

I’m pretty sure this is all that most people want to know. The…

Rumsey Collection with a data visualization subject tag

The David Rumsey Map Collection, known for its many browsable historical maps, now…

Multivariate map collection

I heard you like maps. Jim Vallandingham put together a collection of maps…