Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Run speeds in the men’s 100-meter race
Noah Lyles won the men’s 100-meter, but he started as the slowest runner…
Best NBA players in the Olympics, by country since the 1992 Dream Team
In 1992, when the Dream Team dominated basketball in the Olympics, the best…
Olympic medal tracker variations
As the 2024 Summer Olympics wrap up, medal trackers will fade from homepages…
Scale of dragons from House of the Dragon
Dragons are pretty big, I guess. (Please let me know if you know…
Emotional overlap Venn diagrams
I’m hearing murmurs that the Venn diagram is making a comeback. Six Seconds…
Queuing systems and crowd engineering
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There’s a science to getting thousands of people to wait…
Scrolling map on receipt paper
Aaron Koelker printed a six-foot long map on receipt printer earlier this year.…
Embroidered landscapes
Victoria Rose Richards uses embroidery to depict aerial views and landscapes. The above…
Illustrated guides to Olympic sports
Reuters, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, has visual guides to all of the…
How Olympic athletes combat the heat
A part of outdoor sports is that you must deal with the weather,…
Clean energy from fracking
We usually hear about fracking in a negative context, but for the Washington…
Gunman and countersnipers’ points of view during shooting
The New York Times collected drone footage and built a 3-D model to…
Cryptocurrency-funded politics
Those who run cryptocurrency companies have much to gain from policies that favor…
Nate Silver critiques the new 538 forecast model
Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…
Overlap between area codes HTTP response headers
Like many, you’ve probably wondered what HTTP response headers are also area codes…
Where immigrants in the U.S. came from
A lot of immigration talk in the U.S. focuses on Mexico, but immigrants…
