Visualization

Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.

Shifting Clinton and Trump support for different demographic groups

Using data from their Washington Post-ABC News polling, the Washington Post compares shifting…

Food pictures taken with thermal camera

Thermal cameras, which use infrared to detect heat, provide images of temperature. Firefighters…

Computed screen time for men and women

In a collaborative effort, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media computed…

Mississippi drainage

Horace Mitchell for NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio mapped the massive drainage basin that…

Explore the stars with this interactive Star Mapper

Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, produced the ESA…

Oceans absorbing heat

It keeps getting hotter on this planet, and the oceans are absorbing most…

xkcd: Earth temperature timeline

In classic xkcd-fashion, Randall Munroe timelines the Earth’s temperature, dating back to 20,000…

Watch bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotic

Scientists at Harvard University setup the MEGA-plate, essentially a giant petri dish, with…

Swing states are a relatively new thing

Here’s a fun one from the Guardian. They go over the change in…

Serena Williams, greatest of all time

Serena Williams, who plays tonight in the U.S. Open semifinal, might be the…

Radio station frequencies, by genre

In most areas in the United States, lower FM frequencies are reserved for…

More global warming, more flooding

Water levels are rising, and naturally, the coasts are feeling it. Jonathan Corum…

Oil fires in Iraq seen from above

Though far away, there’s still a lot you can see, as the NASA…

Dear Data, the book

For a year, Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi drew data postcards and sent…

Out of state, public education

Nick Strayer for the New York Times shows the flow of college freshman…

Animal migrations in animated map

The Migrations in Motion map, by Dan Majka from the The Nature Conservancy,…

Composite Olympic moments

One more Olympics-related piece for the road. The New York Times used photo…

Global terrain maps from Stamen

Missed this one from last month. Stamen announced the release of a whole…