Wondering whether if a player’s shot improves over the course of his career,…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Exploration of players’ shot improvement in the NBA
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Wikipedia views and every line of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
In the biggest crossover event of the century, Tom Lum used the Wikipedia…
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Readability of privacy policies for big tech companies
For The New York Times, Kevin Litman-Navarro plotted the length and readability of…
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Increasing ocean temperatures, decreasing ice
For National Geographic, Kennedy Elliot made a series of heatmaps that show the…
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Getting to zero coal in Britain
For The Guardian, Niko Kommenda shows the decrease in coal usage for power…
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Game of Thrones viewer ratings by season
The last episode is coming. Some people don’t like how it’s ending, and…
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Pitch speed distribution, a decrease with age
Pitch speed starts to decrease with a baseball player’s age at some point.…
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Remixing the grocery receipt with data visualization
In prototyping mode, Susie Lu incorporated visualization into the common receipt from the…
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Game of Thrones books versus television series
I think I started watching Game of Thrones around the fourth season (my…
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Chart chooser based on data format
There are many chart types to choose from, which is great, because there’s…
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Tax changes for different groups
There’s less than a month until taxes are due. It’s the most wonderful…
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How to spot a partisan gerrymander
For FiveThirtyEight, William T. Adler and Ella Koeze describe how a metric called…
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Colors of Tintin
Marian Eerens charted the colors of each Adventures of Tintin book cover. The…
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Charting cholera, beyond John Snow
John Snow, who often gets the credit for showing the geographical patterns of…
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Names in movies vs. real life
Here’s a fun spin on the name analysis genre by Mary Zam. She…
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How fast emissions would reduce if other plans were adopted
The United States is doing pretty poorly in reducing emissions. For The New…
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Language used for the wall
For The Upshot, Kevin Quealy continues on his path looking at the words…
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News story lifespan charts
A wideout view of the news cycle can look like a series of…