Isotype, or International System of Typographic Picture Education, is a picture language used…
Infographics
Telling stories with data and graphics.
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Visual catalog of Isotype examples
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Illustrated engineering in everyday objects
Mechanical Pencil is a project by Bryan Macomber that illustrates the mechanical bits…
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Mysteries of women’s clothing sizes
The challenges continue for women who want clothes that fit properly. For the…
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Rise of Bad Bunny
For Reuters, Ally J. Levine and Tiana McGee illustrate and chart the rise:…
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Dinosaurs, not dinosaurs
xkcd drops the knowledge with a proper classification for the stapler. The pairwise…
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Composite ski race to show 0.04-second win
In the women’s downhill, Breezy Johnson won gold with a time of 1…
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Mechanics of the Quad God’s quadruple axel
Olympic figure skater Ilia Malinin earned the nickname “Quad God” for all his…
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Why the best skiers don’t always win in the Olympics
Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety is on the New York Times to explain…
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ASCII art, visually explained
ASCII art is text-based art that uses printable characters instead of pixels. Alex…
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Tariff revenue is nowhere close to enough
The administration continues to add expenses for the country and insist tariff revenues…
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Voter U-turns
To show shifts in net support for the president, the New York Times…
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Trump family crypto accumulation
In 2023, most of the family’s wealth, about 79% of it, was tied…
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Big pile of money
From the New York Times editorial board, an animated big pile of money:…
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Awful and better, Venn diagram
We focus on the bad, because that’s where it can and will get…
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Word mentions in quarterly earnings calls
The Washington Post used word usage in earnings calls to gauge how companies…
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Federal agents in Minnesota could outnumber total Twin Cities police
For the Minnesota Star Tribune, Jeff Hargarten and Jake Steinberg report on the…
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Where generic medication comes from
When generic drug manufacturers have issues like contamination, it is difficult for those…
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Infinite New Year’s ball drop
On New Year’s Eve in New York, a ball drops 139 feet for…


















Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
