Visualization

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

People go to Google to find information about things, and when new words…

Artist Matthew Rangel hikes cross-country and through the mountains, exploring and drawing along…

A couple of years back The New York Times asked readers to draw…

I have an affinity for new things designed as old things, so this…

There was a time when the best way to get a view from…

Infographics devolved a bit in recent years, but there was a time the…

Sometimes data can look really noisy when you zoom in close, and so…

It’s always fun to go back to sports articles and graphics that were…

In planning for the upcoming inauguration, the U.S. military is using a giant…

In some areas of the United States it poured down rain, which caused…

By definition, heartland is some central place of importance of a country. But…

Here are my favorites for the year.

Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…

Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz mapped the top 100,000 words used in tweets. Search…

Shadows cast by buildings affect the feel and flow of a city, and…

This animated visualization from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows a model of…

Here’s a fun piece called Radio Garden. It’s exactly what the title says.…

Climate change is doing some weird stuff. What were once rare weather events…