Modernized version of a mid-19th century encylopedia

When presented with a static graphic, it can be useful to see specific values after you see overall patterns. This tutorial shows you how to add simple interactions to a choropleth map so you can get specifics for regions.

Almost all of my visualization projects that use data from the Census Bureau comes via IPUMS. In this guide, I provide five steps to getting the data you need using their tools.

How to make a bunch of maps and string them together to show change.

Use color to reinforce or add another layer of meaning to a regular line chart.

With wildfires burning in the western United States, smoke fills the air. This is an animation of the air quality during the past couple of months.

How long will chicken reign supreme? Who wins between lemon and lime? Is nonfat ice cream really ice cream? Does grapefruit ever make a comeback? Find out in these charts.

The individual data points of life are much less predictable than the average. Here’s a simulation that shows you how much time is left on the clock.

I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.