Visualization

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

C’est la vis, teaching kids how to visualize data

By adulthood, it’s expected that we can read charts to some degree. You’re…

Sunsquatch, the only eclipse map you need

It’s solar eclipse time. There have been a lot of maps leading up…

Catalog of visualization types to find the one that fits your dataset

There are a lot of visualization methods to choose from, and it can…

Killings of blacks by whites ruled “justified”

In a collaboration between The Marshall Project and The Upshot, Daniel Lathrop and…

Photorealistic balls of precious metals placed outside their mines

Artist Dillon Marsh uses CGI balls of metal placed outside of mines to…

How far you can drive out of the city in one hour

Using anonymized cell phone data from Here Technologies, Sahil Chinoy for The Washington…

Game of Thrones character chart, you decide

I’ve never seen this Game of Thrones show, but I suspect this will…

Bread bag alignment chart

From @aurelianrabbit, the bread bag alignment chart. Lawful neutral, right here.…

Where North Korea can reach with its missiles

Troy Griggs and Karen Yourish for The New York Times mapped the estimated…

Perception of neighborhoods through Airbnb ratings

BeƱat Arregi made a series of Airbnb maps with a simple premise. If…

Karate-inspired projection mapping

I have no idea how projection mapping works, so it kind of feels…

Music preference geography

Travel to different parts of the country, and you hear different types of…

Interactive shows map projections with a face

We’ve seen faces as map projections before, but this is 63 projections on…

Boeing draws a plane in the sky with flight path

In a test flight, Boeing took the thing where you draw using your…

Voronoi diagram of people in the park

From Rod Bogart, a Voronoi diagram of people sitting in Bryant Park. It’s…

Flow of goods between states

Using data from the Freight Analysis Framework, Chris Canipe for Axios mapped the…

Google Trends eclipse interest

I feel like the large-volume coverage of the upcoming eclipse doesn’t quite match…

Satellite view of the upcoming eclipse’s path

In case you didn’t hear, a solar eclipse is on the way that…