Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Spiraling global temperature chart
Global temperature is on the rise, as most of us know. Ed Hawkins…
Atlas of Emotions, a collaboration with the Dalai Lama
Emotions are complex and only partially understood, yet such a force in how…
NFL draft pick quality for your team
Despite what commentators and sports analysts might have you think, picking great players…
Algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem visualized
The Traveling Salesman Problem is a popular puzzle that asks for the shortest…
Music timeline plays through decades of top songs
The Year that Music Died from Polygraph is an animated timeline that shows…
School district spending, against national average
Wrapping up their week-long School Money project, NPR asks: Is there a better…
Lower socioeconomic status linked to lower education attainment
The Upshot highlights research from the Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis that…
Mapping words to parts of the brain
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers monitored brain activity in seven people while…
Change in the British diet, since 1974
From the Open Data Institute, an interactive looking at diet data made available…
Global shipping in a narrated interactive map
We’ve seen maps for global shipping routes before, but this project — Ship…
Slavery in the United States, by decade
Mapping slavery from a historical perspective is a challenge, because many old maps…
Here’s how a neural network works
Daniel Smilkov and Shan Carter at Google put together this interactive learner for…
“Well that escalated quickly.”
This is the trend line from Google Trends for “Well that escalated quickly.”…
School district spending per student
NPR is running a series on spending and school districts and all its…
Interconnectedness of the galaxies
A group of researchers are studying how all the galaxies in the universe…
Titanic sinking in real-time
Visualization of time is usually about compression so that you can see more…
Stephen Curry 3-point record ridiculousness
Stephen Curry made 402 three-pointers this regular season, which is ridiculous. Gregor Aisch…
Every Kobe Bryant shot charted
In celebration of Kobe Bryant’s final game, the Los Angeles Times charted all…
