Visualization

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

History of Earth in the context of a football field

In the latest addition to the put-big-numbers-in-context genre, here’s the history timeline of…

Dear Data headed to MoMA’s permanent collection

What started as a personal project and then turned into a book, Dear…

What $100 buys in each state

A hundred bucks in one state doesn’t always get you the same thing…

Dialect book of maps

In 2013, Josh Katz put together a dialect quiz that showed where people…

Visual connections between art pieces

This is neat. A Google Arts & Culture Experiment, X Degrees of Separation…

Showing uncertainty during the live election forecast

During the election, The New York Times showed a live gauge to show…

Data Sketches, a monthly visualization matchup

Data Sketches, a collaboration between Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu, aims to visualize…

Peaks and valleys of presidential support

This is some fine map work by Lazaro Gamio and Dan Keating for…

Randomness of scientific impact

A group of researchers wondered if there was a trend or predictability for…

Nuclear war is on the ballot

[arve url=”https://youtu.be/Fqo5xPDCts8″] Neil Halloran, creator of the interactive World War II documentary focused…

All the ways to map election results

Every election, there’s a slew of election maps that come in all shapes…

Impact of Obamacare in maps

It’s been three years since the Affordable Health Care Act. Margot Sanger-Katz and…

Vintage cartography and geography documentary, from 1961

This is too good not to watch. It’s a 1961 documentary on cartography…

Visualizing the U.S.-Mexican border

There’s been a lot of talk about building a wall at the U.S.-Mexican…

Ad spending for Clinton and Trump

Adam Pearce for the New York Times charted ad spending for Clinton and…

Trump bar chart baselines are the worst baselines. Sad.

The Donald Trump campaign has a habit of highlighting poll results with a…

Composite photos of airplanes in flight

Photographer Mike Kelley visited airports around the world, took pictures of airplanes leaving,…

Visions penned by the 18th century king of Prussia

Past Visions, a visual archive of Frederick William IV’s, shows thousands of drawings…