Visualization

Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.

Economic impact of federal health research cuts

The Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (SCIMap) estimates the impact of proposed…

History of slipping on banana peels

Secret Base offers a much too complete history of slipping on banana peels,…

Minard Day

Charles-Joseph Minard was born on March 27, 1781. Most who know the name…

Tariff tracker and economic effects

I guess we’re going to learn a good bit about tariffs over the…

Four stages of tariff progressions

Tariff announcements seem to waver in tone and finality depending on the day.…

Turn map locations to slide puzzles

Any Map Puzzle by Ahmad Barclay lets you search for a location and…

Improved Relative Time, a comparison to many more things in the timeline

You’re familiar with AD and BC, but you probably haven’t heard of AiP…

Map of daylight gained in spring

Spring officially started last week here in the Northern Hemisphere. For Axios, Jacque…

Classic arcade game powered by Wikipedia edits

What if the game Asteroids used Wikipedia edits to drive the volume and…

Student basketball transfers are really common

For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Jesse Dougherty analyze the…

Animal sounds in different languages

The purpose of onomatopoeia is to imitate sounds with words, so you might…

Top car brands in China, by market share

I like this chart set from Bloomberg that shows the top brands, ranked…

Projections for NCAA basketball tournament, winning chances for each team

Leading up to the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament, the Athletic has a bracket…

Three-decades-old risk assessment used to decide prison release

In efforts to reduce repeat offenses in Spain thirty years ago, researchers developed…

Clocking out of work earlier

According to data from ActivTrak, people are shortening their work days with higher…

Fewer honking complaints after congestion pricing

This might come as a surprise to some, but since congestion pricing in…

Everyday life changes after Covid

In almost every dataset about life and people that stretches back past March…

Less sense of belonging, in middle school

Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, highlights education research on the awkwardness of middle…