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…

Age range of Olympians

Bonnie Berkowitz and Artur Galocha go with the strip plot to show the…

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…