Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Animal extinction over time

Animals are going extinct at a faster rate. Reuters shows a developing pattern…

Names that are more dog or more human

There appears to be a trend of using human names for pets. Alyssa…

Southwest flight cancellations

There were a lot of flight cancellations this week, but Southwest Airlines is…

VIS 2022 talks are online

With the holidays just about here, I’m sure there’s nothing you’d rather do…

xkcd on optimal bowling metrics

xkcd charted optimal bowling in terms of aim, speed, spin, and weight. This…

Gifts my true love gave to me over the 12 days of Christmas

From Reddit user neilrkaye. This is very important.…

Perfect seasons needed to get over .500 overall

Here’s a fun one from Philip Bump for The Washington Post. Bump simply…

Who pays for Twitter

Twitter Blue is a subscription service from Twitter that primarily provided premium features…

Retrofitting old British homes to improve energy efficiency

Speaking of old homes and energy efficiency in the UK, The Economist describes…

Upward mobility through a personal lens

Aaron Williams, for The Pudding, shows upward mobility through his own experiences, moving…

Republican and Democrat follower counts on Twitter

You might have heard that Elon Musk bought Twitter, and among the many…

Experimental Noisycharts sonifies data for improved accessibility

Nick Evershed, for The Guardian, describes Noisycharts, an experimental component for their in-house…

Shifts in European energy sources

Mira Rojanasakul, for The New York Times, dug into current and historical energy…

Role of luck in football wins

NFL Football Operations calculated how much luck has contributed to team wins and…

Exports through the Mississippi River

Drought has caused water levels to drop in the Mississippi River, which is…

Election ad topics

Midterm election day is just about here in the U.S., so the political…

Gas prices and confidence

Everywhere you go, gas prices show up on big boards, like a proxy…

Word cloud + Streamgraph = WordStream

I hear it all the time from chart purists. “I love the streamgraph!”…