Infographics

Telling stories with data and graphics.

Modern reproduction of an 1868 catalog of flower illustrations

Nicholas Rougeux, who has a knack and the patience to recreate vintage works…

Data-driven hipster reading list

When it comes to reading lists, we usually look for what’s popular, because…

Atlas of all the moons in our solar system

National Geographic went all out on their atlas of moons. Space. Orbits. Rotating…

Cost of a Census undercount

The citizenship question for the upcoming Census is still stuck in limbo. One…

Guide to manipulated video

I have a feeling we’re in for a lot of manipulated videos as…

Scale of the Hong Kong protest

You know those sped up videos where there’s a long line for something…

Mapping Bob Ross

Fathom Information Design recently made tools to find patterns in documents of text.…

Jeopardy! winners making chart jokes

James Holzhauer is on a record-breaking Jeopardy! win streak. It’s not so much…

Why some Asian accents swap Ls and Rs

Vox delves into why Ls and Rs often get replaced by Asian speakers…

Rise of the summer sequel

For The New York Times, Keith Collins shows the growing popularity of summer…

More candidates and earlier

For Bloomberg, Lauren Leatherby and Paul Murray describe the heightened eagerness to enter…

Sprawlball, an in-depth look into the evolution of modern basketball

If you’ve seen a basketball shot chart in the past few years, it…

Growing similarity in global diet

Diet around the world is growing more similar. National Geographic charted estimates of…

Amount of fish to raise a big fish

Raising living things requires resources. In the case of fish, it requires more…

A more detailed view of the Mueller Report

By now we’ve all seen the zoomed out thumbnail view of the Mueller…

What happened at Notre-Dame

Notre-Dame in Paris, France was on fire. The New York Times describes what…

Comparing the potential cost of Medicare for everyone

For The Upshot, Josh Katz, Kevin Quealy, and Margot Sanger-Katz, consulted economists to…

Contrasting social media Democrats to real life

As many know (I hope), what we see on social media often doesn’t…