Statistical Visualization

A couple of years ago, xkcd ran a survey that asked people to…

The Forest of Advocacy is a series of animations that explores the political…

Kat Downs, Laura Stanton and Karen Yourish of The Washington Post look at…

After he saw a New York Times article on the gender gap among…

Josh Cothran looked at who’s paid for healthcare over the past five decades,…

In partnership with social analytics service Topsy, Twitter launched a Political Index that…

Lee Drutman, a Senior Fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, compared the tax returns…

Adam Cole and Nelson Hsu for NPR plotted the percentage of people, ages…

Last week, the Washington Post compared the ages of Olympians, but it only…

I think the theme of this year’s Olympic graphics is how you relate…

The Washington Post has a fun piece that compares your age to that…

Nicolas Belmonte, a data visualization scientist at Twitter, visualized the change in tweet…

Worth listening to whenever he talks visualization

Last week, Australia released data for their 2011 Census. Small Multiples, in collaboration…

There are a lot of charts to choose from, and if you pick…

We’ve seen a number of looks at movie poster cliches, but this is…

Twitter engineers Miguel Rios and Jimmy Lin explored tweet volumes in different cities…

Regardless of your politics, this chart is a great example of how data…