Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Heat in prison cells
Reuters highlights unsafe temperatures in prison cells, using building models, public records, and…
History of zoo animal escapes
It’s exciting when an animal escapes from the zoo. A monkey breaks free…
Taxicab Geometry
For the New York Times, Steven Strogatz explains taxicab geometry through the lens…
xkcd globe projections
The problem with two-dimensional map projections is distortion creeps in no matter what…
Policy timelines for the Big Beautiful Bill
The OBBB introduced policies for taxes, government assistance, student loans, and immigration, with…
Increased immigration arrests and deportations
For the Guardian, Maanvi Singh, Will Craft, and Andrew Witherspoon show the sharp…
Usage and management of public lands
The administration is pushing policies to open public land, some 59 million acres…
Analysis of all the words used on NYC streets
Yufeng Zhao extracted words found in millions of publicly available Google Street View…
Counting Trump’s comments about Powell
For the New York Times, Christine Zhang counted Trump’s comments about Jerome Powell,…
Highest suicide rates among older men in the U.S.
For STAT, Olivia Goldhill reports on an often overlooked demographic.
Meanwhile, another demographic…
Diverging consumer sentiment
From Axios, a quick chart that shows consumer sentiment between those with annual…
Maps for why all the flash floods
It is “flash flood month” in the United States, brought on by high…
Free kick strategy by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo
In soccer, a free kick can be awarded after an opponent commits a…
Gender of animal characters in children’s books
Read enough children’s books with anthropomorphic animals and you might notice that some…
