Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
Possible cheating seen in a scatterplot
When plotting Russian election results, a structured grid patterns appear. From The Economist:…
Visualizing time-based data
Zan Armstrong, Ian Johnson, and Mike Freeman for Observable wrote a guide on…
Heatmap of average IMDb ratings for all the shows
Inspired by a graphic on Reddit, Jim Vallandingham expanded the format for all…
How Facebook disappeared from the internet
Cloudflare describes how things looked from their point of view the day that…
Assessment of the Covid-19 dashboards
Researchers evaluated 158 Covid-19 dashboards, assessing design, implementation, and usefulness. Marie Patino for…
Using rates for more relatable Covid-19 numbers
With millions of Covid-19 deaths worldwide, and hundreds of thousands in the US,…
Data visualization activities for kids
Nightingale has a kid’s section with printable visualization activities. Get the kids started…
Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated
The CDC released a chart that shows case, hospitalization, and death rates for…
How the demographics of your neighborhood changed
The San Francisco Chronicle compares demographics in your neighborhood in 2020 against 2010.…
Lightning algorithm
Matt Henderson on Numberphile shows off a “lightning algorithm” which is actually a…
Inflation isn’t that exciting
For NYT Opinion, Josh Bivens and Stuart A. Thompson argue that you don’t…
NBA carry jobs
With professional basketball, we often hear about carry jobs. There’s one star player…
Multiracial people counted in the census
Using unit charts, NPR shows the number of people who identify with each…
How countries ranked by Olympic medal counts
Ranking countries by medal count change depending on how much value you place…
Visualizing GitHub repos
Most people are familiar with the file-and-folder view. Sort alphabetically, date, or file…
Decline of U.S. vaccination rate compared against Europe’s
Elian Peltier and Josh Holder for The New York Times highlight the vaccination…
Comparison of Biden infrastructure plan and updated bipartisan plan
Aatish Bhatia and Quoctrung Bui for NYT’s The Upshot made the comparison using…