Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Shrinking middle class

Statistical Visualization / income, middle class, Upshot

The Upshot has a detailed, chart-filled summary of the shrinking middle class, categorized…
Where and why men outnumber women

Statistical Visualization / gender, World Bank

There are an estimated 60 million more men than women on this planet,…
Feeling hot, hot, hot

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, environment, temperature, time series, weather

When you look at overall global temperatures over time, you see a rising…
Japan fertility rate forecasts versus reality

Statistical Visualization / birth, forecast, Japan, Washington Post

It’s hard to predict the future, especially when humans are involved. Oftentimes, there…
Most decade-specific words in Billboard song titles

Statistical Visualization / songs, text

David Taylor looked for words in Billboard song titles that appeared during a…
Increasing rates of men who don’t work

Statistical Visualization / Amanda Cox, employment, Upshot

Recent data from the Census Bureau suggests the rate of non-working men has…
Detailed visualization of NBA shot selection

Statistical Visualization / basketball

Sports loves conditional distributions. What does Joe Billy Bob typically do against such…
Serial views

Statistical Visualization / baseline, Serial

Like many, I’ve been listening to Serial every week, but I always just…
Pie chart pyramid

Statistical Visualization / humor, pie chart

This pyramid pie chart just might take the pie chart humor crown from…
A scaled Periodic Table of Elements

Statistical Visualization / Google, Periodic Table

Inspired by a diagram from 1976, the Big Picture group at Google Research…
Pianogram

Statistical Visualization / distribution, histogram, music, piano

This is what you get when you cross a histogram and piano keys…
Earth-orbiting satellites, all of them

Statistical Visualization / Quartz, satellites, space

David Yanofsky and Tim Fernholz for Quartz visualized the satellites orbiting Earth. There’s…
Touchdown passing record

Statistical Visualization / football, New York Times, time series, Upshot

Peyton Manning, quarterback for the Denver Broncos, passed up Brett Favre’s career record…
Decline of women in computer science

Statistical Visualization / computer science, gender, NPR

NPR spent some time on the subject of the decline of women in…
Chess piece survival rates

Statistical Visualization / chess, survival rate

On Quora, someone asked, “What are the chances of survival of individual chess…
Affordable Care Act progress report

Statistical Visualization / health care, New York Times

The New York Times takes a data-centric look at the progress of the…
Curse of dimensionality, interactive demo

Statistical Visualization / curse of dimensionality

Jeff Leek was trying to explain the curse of dimensionality and realized that…
Household incomes rise

Statistical Visualization / economy, income, Washington Post

Since the recession, it’s taken a while for household incomes to come back…

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