Visualization

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

Helene power outages mapped

Chenxiao Guo, a PhD candidate in geography who goes by the name Atlas,…

Maps showing migration out of cities

Mira Rojanasakul and Nadja Popovich, for The New York Times, mapped migration out…

Jimmy Carter’s longevity compared to other U.S. presidents

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, turned 100 years old.…

Reordered baseball lineup over decades

Baseball’s batting lineup has changed from what seemed to make sense to what…

Rainfall in the path of Hurricane Helene

Western North Carolina got the brunt of Hurricane Helene with two feet of…

Counting mullets in the AFL

The mullet has grown popular in the Australian Football League. ABC News counted…

Trash balloons released by North Korea landing in South Korea

North Korea has been releasing thousands of trash bags into the air with…

Hurricane categories, visually explained

As Hurricane Helene approached Florida, it grew from a tropical storm to a…

Election game to win the White House against other readers

For Financial Times, Sam Learner, Oliver Roeder, and Irene de la Torre Arenas…

Energy used to generate an email with AI

For The Washington Post, Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan illustrate the scale of…

Environmental cost of food

The New York Times highlights the work of True Price Foundation, a group…

Grocery owner territories

Any day is a good day for a map of predominant commercial chains.…

Immigration in Democrat counties

For Bloomberg, Elena Mejía and Shawn Donnan use a transitioning cartogram to show…

Political leanings of first and last names

For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam and Lenny Bronner analyzed names and…

Satellite imagery of all the outdoor basketball courts

For The Pudding, Matthew Daniels extracted all the outdoor basketball courts in the…

Spell your name with satellite imagery

Here’s a fun interactive from NASA Landsat that lets you enter your name…

Atlas of Design, Volume 7

Every two years, since 2012, the North American Cartographic Information Society publishes Atlas…

Fingers for scale

This is one small bit in a Reuters piece by Mariano Zafra and…