Infographics

Telling stories with data and graphics.

What happened at Notre-Dame

Notre-Dame in Paris, France was on fire. The New York Times describes what…

Comparing the potential cost of Medicare for everyone

For The Upshot, Josh Katz, Kevin Quealy, and Margot Sanger-Katz, consulted economists to…

Contrasting social media Democrats to real life

As many know (I hope), what we see on social media often doesn’t…

All of the deaths in Game of Thrones

A few years back, The Washington Post illustrated every death in Game of…

Issues Democratic hopefuls are talking about on social media

For the Washington Post, Kevin Schaul and Kevin Uhrmacher parsed the social media…

Bad data from a faulty sensor on the Boeing 737 Max

The New York Times illustrated what likely happened in the Ethiopian Airlines and…

Brexit voting divisions

The Economist charted the divisions within political parties using Brexit votes as proxy.…

Data comic shows an average American day

Matt Hong used a stacked bar chart over time as the frame for…

High school basketball players who make it to the NBA

Right in my wheelhouse, Russell Goldenberg and Amber Thomas for The Pudding looked…

Celebrity name spelling test

Colin Morris culled common misspellings on Reddit and made the data available on…

Searching for the saddest punt ever, with statistics

For SB Nation, Jon Bois takes a statistical deep dive in the search…

French fry power rankings

Lucas Kwan Peterson for the Los Angeles Times ranked fast food french fries.…

Scale of Star Wars characters and ships

It’s the scale of significant Star Wars characters, objects, and ships from Episode…

Evolution of the periodic table of elements

As more elements were discovered, the table grew and changed layout. For Science…

Evolution of the alphabet

Matt Baker provides this nifty diagram on how the alphabet changed over the…

Closeness in relationships over time, illustrated with a couple of lines

Cartoonist Olivia de Recat illustrated the closeness over time for various relationships. Charming.…

xkcd: technical analysis

Seems about right.…

Scale of tens

I’m always up for some scaled perspective. From David Packer: Anyone need a…