Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
Analysis of skin tones in beauty ads on Instagram
For Quartz, Amanda Shendruk and Marc Bain analyzed skin tones that appeared in…
Average stimulus aid, by household size and income
Alicia Parlapiano and Josh Katz, reporting for NYT’s The Upshot, plotted the average…
Scale of the pandemic compared to the past
While we’re on the topic of scale, The New York Times plotted weekly…
Improving vaccine distribution in all states
Lauren Leatherby and Amy Schoenfeld Walker reporting for The New York Times:
“Every…
Half of coronavirus deaths were in the winter
You probably knew that coronavirus deaths have been in the several thousands per…
How quickly the U.S. is vaccinating vs. how long it’ll take to get back to “normal”
Vaccines provide light at the end of the tunnel, but when we finally…
Data Visualization in Society
Data Visualization in Society, an open access book, is a collection of works…
Age generations in the U.S. Senate, over time
With this straightforward unit chart, wcd.fyi shows which generation each Senate member belonged…
When the U.S. could be vaccinated
For Reuters, Feilding Cage, Chris Canipe and Prasanta Dutta made an interactive that…
Dot density to show Covid-19 deaths over time
The United States passed 425,000 coronavirus deaths this week. For The New York…
Video series on all the chart types
Jon Schwabish has a new book coming out: Better Data Visualizations. To kick…
Evolution of coronavirus strains
Reuters looked at how seven main strains of the virus evolved around the…
Defining “essential worker” to distribute vaccine
Matthew Conlen, in an article by Abby Goodnough and Jan Hoffman for NYT,…
Vaccine contracts
Bloomberg is tracking nine coronavirus vaccines around the world. In addition to the…
State restrictions and hospitalizations
The University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government defined an index to track…
