Movies and television shows often reflect cultural trends of the time they are…
Nathan Yau
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Search for word usage in movies and television over time
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Powers of Ten, Derek Jeter style
You’ve likely seen the classic Powers of Ten video from 1977. It starts…
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Pantone beer cans
Graphic designer Txaber created beer can labeling to match the typical color of…
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How to be not ignorant about the world
Recurring TED talker Hans Rosling returns with his son and Gapminder Foundation co-founder…
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Probabilities of failing birth control methods
In high school health class, where I learned about contraceptives and the dangers…
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Teaching math through percussive dance
Malke Rosenfeld uses percussive dance to teach math to her elementary students. The…
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Extinctions and animal species at risk
Data journalist Anna Flagg for ProPublica reported on animal species at higher risk…
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Chart-Topping Songs as Graphs and Diagrams →
Dreams, hope, and most importantly, love, mixed with some parties and dranking.
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A Truncated Story of Infinity
A Truncated Story of Infinity, a short film by Paul Trillo, explores the…
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Generative book covers
The New York Public Library is developing an eBook-borrowing system, which includes an…
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Beat Blox
Beat Blox is a student project by Per Holmquist from Beckmans College of…
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Dinosaurs versus airplane
Scientists found the fossils of a giant dinosaur that they estimate was 26…
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Old maps overlaid on Google Maps
The British Library georeferencing project places old maps, as far back as the…
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Style over function for redesigned choking posters
In many parts of the country, the departments of health require that eating…
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Cosmic map shows Milky Way at the edge of a supercluster
Nature highlights the research of R. Brent Tully et al, which defines a…
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Race distributions of police departments versus residents →
When you compare distributions of race for police departments and for the residents…
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When people work, by job category
In another use of data from the American Time Use Survey, Planet Money…
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Segregated schools, still
The map above by MetroTrends shows the percent of white kids who attended…
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Out, liar.
By Ben Shabad, full-time graduate student and part-time cartoon-drawing person.…
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PlotDevice: Draw with Python
You’ve been able to visualize data with Python for a while, but Mac…