The Guardian provides a visual guide to the damage in Los Angeles with…
Nathan Yau
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Visual guide to the wildfire damage
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Phases of the Moon, visually explained
Bartosz Ciechanowski used his style of interactive essay, with many sliders, graphics, and…
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Recreation, Remixing, and Adaptation — Giving Credit in Data Visualization
Past and current charts influence future charts. Should you credit the past work? At what point does homage become plagiarism? If you’re the original creator, are you pleased or annoyed?
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Embroidered daily journaling
Those who keep a daily journal typically record with words, photos, and video.…
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Palisades fire, seen from above
Sentinel-2 satellite of the European Space Agency captured an image of the Palisades…
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Wind flow patterns over Los Angeles
Based on data from NOAA, the New York Times shows the direction and…
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Hot winds fueling the fires
The Washington Post illustrates how air flows from the Great Basin, over the…
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Map of active wildfires in California
This California wildfires map from Los Angeles Times shows an up-to-date status in…
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Social media app preferences of young teenagers
Pew Research published their annual report on what social media U.S. 13- to…
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Make the Chart: Scaled Squares with Color Bands
Areas represent total counts and the colors indicate categories. Together, the symbols show the distributions in a population.
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Drug overdose deaths seen in a generation
For NYT’s the Upshot, Josh Katz, Margot Sanger-Katz, and Nick Thieme report on…
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January 6 defendants, a breakdown
1,580 people were charged with federal crimes for the riot at the U.S.…
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Tracking the effects of Congestion Pricing in New York
In an effort to reduce traffic, New York launched a program that charges…
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Where and when to travel
Bloomberg put together a list of places to visit in 2025. Most of…
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Star Wars galaxy map
I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this Star Wars map, but I…
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Convergence to sameness in the algorithm
As my father-in-law’s Facebook feed would suggest, the “algorithm” has a way of…
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2024.
I haven’t reviewed a year on FlowingData since 2020, which seems like a…
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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024
Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024.
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Seeing the single largest tree in the forest of 400 billion
Fabien Wagner works with CTrees in an effort to map tree canopy height…
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Home insurance companies dropping customers
Because of a warming planet with more wildfires and hurricanes, it’s growing more…