The Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem says that if you have two polygons of equal area,…
Infographics
Telling stories with data and graphics.
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Scissors congruence
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Hand-drawn how-to instructions using zero words
Inspired by Dear Data, the data drawing pen pal project, designers Josefina Bravo,…
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Is there something wrong with democracy?
Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, for The New York Times, answer the question…
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Porn traffic before and after the missile alert in Hawaii
PornHub compared minute-to-minute traffic on their site before and after the missile alert…
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Compare your fears against reality
From ABC News, this is a clever comparison between people’s worst fears and…
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Spotting rip currents
Rip currents are like hidden rivers near the shore that head out to…
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Most popular GIFs used to express emotion in different countries
People often use animated GIFs to digitally express caricatures of emotion or reaction.…
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Getty Center fire resistance
Fire spread over Los Angeles, but the famous art works in the Getty…
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Tax calculator that considers where you live
Here’s a different look at tax cuts and increases from Reuben Fischer-Baum for…
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Stopping a nuclear missile fired at the US
I hate that this feels like something civilians should know. Bonnie Berkowitz and…
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Every tax cut and increase in House Republicans’ bill
The House Republicans will vote on a tax bill soon that adds about…
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Math to fix gerrymandering, explained in comic
Gerrymandering doesn’t sound like an especially sexy topic, but it’s an important one…
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Logos drawn from memory
Signs asked 150 people to draw famous logos — Apple, Starbucks, Burger King,…
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LaVar Ball trolling to the top, through a tweet count lens
I didn’t know who LaVar Ball was, and suddenly, it was non-stop sports…
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Mass exodus at human scale
Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…
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Visual narrative of six asylum seekers
We often visualize migration and people movement as lines that go from point…
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Most frequent how-tos we search for
Xaquín G.V., in collaboration with the Google News Lab, investigated what people around…
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Measuring things with ships
We might be in an age of big data, but people have been…