Infographics

Telling stories with data and graphics.

Visual summary of skateboarding tournament

George Murphy visualized the results of this year’s skateboarding tournament Battle at the…

F1 racing winners and age

So here’s a sport I don’t see or hear much about. F1 racing,…

Your life on Earth

The BBC has a fun piece that shows changes over your lifetime. Enter…

A healthy versus unhealthy office environment

In an interesting use of the before-and-after slider, this Washington Post graphic by…

Ebola spreading, a simulation

As a way to understand the deadliness and spread of Ebola, the Washington…

Skateboard physics

Aatish Bhatia, a recent physics PhD, describes the forces involved to do a…

Interracial and same-sex marriage parallels

xkcd doing what xkcd does. Randall Munroe charts a brief timeline of interracial…

Big chicken

From Vox and research from Zuidhof et al., chickens are quite big these…

No Ceilings highlights progress towards gender equality

No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative from the Clinton Foundation, aims…

How search works

Google explained the process of a web search with a scrolling infographic. Might…

Powers of Ten, Derek Jeter style

You’ve likely seen the classic Powers of Ten video from 1977. It starts…

Extinctions and animal species at risk

Data journalist Anna Flagg for ProPublica reported on animal species at higher risk…

Dinosaurs versus airplane

Scientists found the fossils of a giant dinosaur that they estimate was 26…

Style over function for redesigned choking posters

In many parts of the country, the departments of health require that eating…

Race distributions of police departments versus residents

When you compare distributions of race for police departments and for the residents…

Interactive tool shows impact of terrorism

The Global Terrorism Database, maintained by the University of Maryland, is an open…

State of birth, by state and over time

We’ve seen migration within the United States before, but Gregor Aisch, Robert Gebeloff,…

Civilian casualties in Gaza

Lazaro Gamio and Richard Johnson for the Washington Post cover civilian deaths in…