Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
Drought extent by region
For Scientific American, Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis charted drought extent by region…
Spending bill in a treemap box
Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano for NYT’s The Upshot broke down a Democrat…
Treemap tour of political donations
The Digital Story Innovation Team for ABC News in Australia looked at political…
Simulating how just a little gender bias in the workplace can lead to big effects up the chain
Yuhao Du, Jessica Nordell, and Kenneth Joseph used simulations to study the effects…
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…