The histogram is my favorite chart type, but it’s unintuitive for many. So I’ve been using the less accurate but less abstract beeswarm.
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How I Made That: Interactive Beeswarm Chart to Compare Distributions
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Nine rounds a second sonified
The New York Times used sonification along with a dot plot to demonstrate…
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Mass exodus at human scale
Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…
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Grid map variations
Grid maps are a useful way to show state-level data, as they give…
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Falling is Learning
I’ve been teaching my three-year-old son how to ride his bike on two…
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Hand-drawn short trip
Have you seen this yet? Illustrator Alexander Perrin experimented with bringing a hand-drawn…
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Given your income, most beneficial tax breaks
With the release of the Republican proposed tax plan, Reuben Fischer-Baum and Kevin…
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LEGO world map
Check out this five-foot long LEGO world map.
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Who Earns More Income in American Households?
Compared to 1970, a shift towards women making the higher income.
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Time map shows locations based on how long it takes to get there
With the premise that we often search for locations based on how long…
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Thermal structure of Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria touched down in Puerto Rico. This visualization by Joshua Stevens at…
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Stack Overflow salary calculator for developers
Stack Overflow used data from their developer survey to build a prediction model…
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Looking for improbably frequent lottery winners
After hearing the story of reporter Lawrence Mower, who discovered fraudsters after a…
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Visual narrative of six asylum seekers
We often visualize migration and people movement as lines that go from point…
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LEGO color scheme classifications
Nathanael Aff poked at LEGO brickset data with some text mining methods in…
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Computer uses wind to mine cryptocurrency and then fund climate research
HARVEST is an art piece by Julian Oliver that consists of a 4G-connected…
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Semiotic, a visualization framework
Elijah Meeks released Semiotic into the wild. It’s a framework that allows quick…
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Aviation tracker with depth
I’ve grown bored of maps that show commuter traffic, but for whatever reason,…
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How I Made That: Searchable Time Series Chart
When there are too many options or categories, it can be helpful to make the data searchable.
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