Infographics

Telling stories with data and graphics.

Power of the reveal

Hannah Fairfield, who does graphics at the New York Times, talks about using…

The big companies behind organic food brands

When you walk down the aisles of the grocery store, there are probably…

Median home in America, over 40 years

The median home in America has changed in a variety of ways. Square…

Earthquake magnitude and the logarithmic scale

The earthquake in Nepal was big, but there’s a discrepancy in just how…

Recurring characters in film and the words used to describe them

Stereotropes, made by the Bocoup Data Visualization Team, explores the many tropes in…

Color timeline for Avengers comic book covers

The Avengers comic has been around since 1963 and the look and feel…

LEGO explainer: Taxes and income inequality

LEGOs make everything better. David Wessel for Brookings Institution explains how federal taxes…

A tall graphic to show Mt. Everest scale

Mt. Everest is a tall mountain. How tall is it?? Glad you asked.…

Cocktail construction chart

Remember that engineer’s guide to drinks a while back? I think this one…

Every Game of Thrones death

I hear there’s a show called “Game of Thrones” on the T.V., where…

Rickrolling pie chart

From Finger Magazine a few years back, in the heyday of rickrolling and…

A beard scale for baseball

There are a lot of beards and other types of facial hair in…

Traffic gridlock simulation

I hate all things commute- and traffic-related, and it’s probably why I like…

Equality for women and girls, 20-year report

In their continued work on the No Ceilings project, Fathom describes the current…

Find the fastest flight between airports

Flight arrival and departure times are often thought of in terms of “on…

Health data breaches and fines

Sisi Wei and Charles Ornstein for ProPublica highlight reported data breaches to the…

Decline of workers’ compensation

Workers’ Compensation, a promise to pay medical bills and some of your wages…

Impact of vaccines throughout history

Not that anyone who does not vaccinate their kids cares, but Tynan DeBold…