Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Finding the biggest busts and steals from NBA drafts past

Statistical Visualization / basketball, Polygraph, sports

Picking basketball players for a professional team is no easy task. College and…
Computed screen time for men and women

Statistical Visualization / gender equality, movies

In a collaborative effort, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media computed…
Radio station frequencies, by genre

Statistical Visualization / radio

In most areas in the United States, lower FM frequencies are reserved for…
Square pie chart beats out the rest in perception study

Statistical Visualization / perception, pie chart

Many hate pie charts. Others love them. I think they’re useful but have…
We spend more at restaurants than at grocery stores

Statistical Visualization / eating, Quartz, spending

For decades, Americans spent more money at the grocery store than at eating…
U.S. gun deaths rate is an outlier

Statistical Visualization / guns, mortality

If you look at gun death rates for other western countries and adjust…
Gender pay gaps for major U.S. occupations

Statistical Visualization / gender, pay gap, Wall Street Journal

As we all know these days, there exists a gender pay gap across…
History of Sumo charted

Statistical Visualization / FiveThirtyEight, sumo

Sumo has a long history that goes back centuries. Unlike most things that…
Spiraling global temperature chart

Statistical Visualization / Ed Hawkins, temperature, time series, weather

Global temperature is on the rise, as most of us know. Ed Hawkins…
School district spending, against national average

Statistical Visualization / education, NPR

Wrapping up their week-long School Money project, NPR asks: Is there a better…
Lower socioeconomic status linked to lower education attainment

Statistical Visualization / education, race, Upshot

The Upshot highlights research from the Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis that…
Change in the British diet, since 1974

Statistical Visualization / diet, food, health

From the Open Data Institute, an interactive looking at diet data made available…
“Well that escalated quickly.”

Statistical Visualization / Google Trends, humor

This is the trend line from Google Trends for “Well that escalated quickly.”…
Stephen Curry 3-point record ridiculousness

Statistical Visualization / basketball, New York Times, Stephen Curry

Stephen Curry made 402 three-pointers this regular season, which is ridiculous. Gregor Aisch…
Rising death rates for white women

Statistical Visualization / mortality, Washington Post

Overall life expectancy continues to increase, but looking at it from the other…
How people read books

Statistical Visualization / Jellybooks, New York Times, reading

Jellybooks is an analytics company that evaluates how people read book, in a…
Greater access to clean water

Statistical Visualization / bestiario, National Geographic, water

National Geographic, in collaboration with Bestiario, looks at the improving accessibility to clean…
Basketball shot charts, make your own

Statistical Visualization / basketball, shot chart

Based on data from the NBA stats API and using the visual layout…

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