In the latest addition to the put-big-numbers-in-context genre, here’s the history timeline of…
Infographics
Telling stories with data and graphics.
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History of Earth in the context of a football field
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Nuclear war is on the ballot
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Neil Halloran, creator of the interactive World War II documentary focused… -
Visions penned by the 18th century king of Prussia
Past Visions, a visual archive of Frederick William IV’s, shows thousands of drawings…
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Breaking the algorithmic black box
The general public kind of knows about data privacy issues. But not really.…
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Rise in income for the poor and middle class
We know that income increased by a lot in 2015, but for who?…
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Shifting Clinton and Trump support for different demographic groups
Using data from their Washington Post-ABC News polling, the Washington Post compares shifting…
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xkcd: Earth temperature timeline
In classic xkcd-fashion, Randall Munroe timelines the Earth’s temperature, dating back to 20,000…
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Serena Williams, greatest of all time
Serena Williams, who plays tonight in the U.S. Open semifinal, might be the…
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More global warming, more flooding
Water levels are rising, and naturally, the coasts are feeling it. Jonathan Corum…
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Composite Olympic moments
One more Olympics-related piece for the road. The New York Times used photo…
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Heptathlon rankings with parallel coordinates
The Guardian covered the rankings for the women’s heptathlon, specifically how Nafissatou Thiam…
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Every fastest man on one track
The New York Times has been pulling from the vault for this year’s…
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Streamgraph of Olympic medal wins
Gregor Aisch and Larry Buchanan for the New York Times visualized Olympic medal…
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Katie Ledecky domination charted
One of the best parts of the Olympics is watching an athlete from…
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What makes the Olympic athletes great
Rather than a focus on the events and their details, the New York…
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Games to test your skillz against Olympians, from your computer
The last couple of Olympics, news graphics desks went with gloriously detailed explainers…
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An interactive look at handwriting recognition from 1960s
In the 1960s, the RAND corporation developed a handwriting recognition system using, well,…
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Small percentage of Americans actually picked Clinton and Trump
Alicia Parlapiano and Adam Pearce for the New York Times elegantly show a…
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Camera really adds tens pounds
Photographic evidence.
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Ride on the VR time series roller coaster
Speaking of virtual reality visualization, this Nasdaq roller coaster by Roger Kenny and…