Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Counts for pro-Palestinian college protests increasing
Based on estimates from the Crowd Counting Consortium, the Washington Post shows the…
Map of NHL player birth places
Reddit user ChangsManagement mapped where NHL hockey players were born, based on data…
Flipbook drawn by strangers on the internet
The Pudding ran an experiment that asked people to trace a shape. They…
Plastics banned in Hong Kong in an effort to reduce waste, scale
Hong Kong banned single-use plastics often used for food takeaway containers. For South…
Rise in prison death rates during the pandemic
The Marshall Project highlights research on excess mortality in U.S. prisons:
The slowdown…
Climate change in your lifetime and the next
One of the challenges of understanding the weight of climate change is that…
Israel uses Iron Dome as defense against rockets
Using a series of graphics, Reuters explains Israel’s defense against rockets, also known…
Existing mortgages with lower rates than new ones
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing…
What happened to Japantown in San Francisco when residents were forced out by executive order
In 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt mandated that those of Japanese descent be sent…
Scented products with potentially harmful ingredients
For Bloomberg, Daniela Sirtori, Madeline Campbell, and Marie Patino do some product counting:…
Teenage adversity that carries into adulthood
The National Longitudinal Surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are unique in…
Access to nature where you live
NatureQuant processes and analyzes satellite imagery to quantify people’s access to nature. They…
People movements during the eclipse
As you might expect, the path of totality brought increased activities as people…
Expanding Rube Goldberg machine that you can edit
From xkcd, a Rube Goldberg machine that keeps on going. Edit a cell…
Airbnb occupancy along the eclipse path
Maybe you heard there’s a total eclipse happening today. AirDNA mapped Airbnb occupancy…
Wind flows displayed with spinning paddles
Joanie Lemercier used a grid of spinning paddles that turn with the wind.…
Conway’s Game of Hope
Alexander Miller wrote a “fable of emergence” that combines Conway’s Game of Life…
Mapping NBA basketball shots
Alasdair Rae outlines the basics of visualizing basketball shot data with QGIS, an…
