Statistical Visualization

Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.

Conservatives lose UK election by a lot

Statistical Visualization / elections, loss, New York Times

For the New York Times, Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby show how the…
Age differences between world leaders and the populations they serve

Statistical Visualization / age, government, Washington Post

The ages of American presidential candidates are old when compared to the ages…
Trendy baby name sounds

Statistical Visualization / names, trends, Washington Post

For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura…
Heat tracker for the U.S.

Statistical Visualization / heat, New York Times, warning

It’s abnormally hot in a large portion of the United States, and it’s…
Dr Pepper ties with Pepsi-Cola for number two soda

Statistical Visualization / Beverage Digest, Dr Pepper, Pepsi, soda, Wall Street Journal

Dr Pepper steadily rose and Pepsi steadily declined over the past couple of…
When feelings of nostalgia peak

Statistical Visualization / great, nostalgia, Washington Post, YouGov

YouGov surveyed 2,000 adults asking them when was the best and worst decades…
Dashboard for L.A. Dodgers baseball

Statistical Visualization / baseball, dashboard, Dodgers, Matt Stiles

To keep track of performance, Matt Stiles made the Dodgers Data Bot, which…
Shifting to batteries for electricity

Statistical Visualization / batteries, electricity, New York Times

To capture solar energy for use in the evening, batteries have grown in…
Communal Plot, a shared coordinate space to see how your taste compares

Statistical Visualization / PerThirtySix, sharing, social

PerThirtySix made a communal plot that asks for your opinion via scatterplot and…
Genetic algorithm car race thingy

Statistical Visualization / algorithm, optimization

From the oldie-but-goodie department, this fun program uses a genetic algorithm to drive…
Rise in prison death rates during the pandemic

Statistical Visualization / Marshall Project, mortality, pandemic

The Marshall Project highlights research on excess mortality in U.S. prisons:
The slowdown…
Existing mortgages with lower rates than new ones

Statistical Visualization / mortgage, Upshot

For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing…
Access to nature where you live

Statistical Visualization / cities, nature, NatureQuant, satellite imagery, Washington Post

NatureQuant processes and analyzes satellite imagery to quantify people’s access to nature. They…
Happiness ratings, by country and age

Statistical Visualization / happiness, rank

The World Happiness Report, published each year since 2012, just dropped for 2024.…
Racial bias in OpenAI GPT resume rankings

Statistical Visualization / bias, Bloomberg, OpenAI, race, resume

AI is finding its way into the HR workflow to sift through resumes.…
Diversity in college admissions without considering race

Statistical Visualization / admissions, college, SAT, Upshot

For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia and Emily Badger model how colleges might…
Analysis of when movies use their own names in the dialogue

Statistical Visualization / Alice Thudt, dialogue, Dominikus Baur, movies, title

A title drop is when a movie mentions its own name during the…
Rise of Caitlin Clark, scoring machine

Statistical Visualization / basketball, Caitlin Clark, Washington Post

Caitlin Clark, a basketball guard for the University of Iowa, has been steadily…

Page 4 of 44
<
1
2
3
4
5
6
...
44
>