Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
Tron-style slippy map
Mapzen just released a Tron-style slippy map.
Today we introduce TRON version 2…
All the Harry Potter spells, when they were used
I often stare far into the distance and ponder world’s greatest questions —…
Doctors’ political leanings
Based on data from researchers at Yale, the Upshot charts party registration by…
Classical music visualized
Artist Nicholas Rouguex visualized some musical scores in his project Off the Staff.…
Map shows two-party presidential shifts since 1920
In an update to his two-party map, political scientist David Sparks shows the…
Finding the biggest busts and steals from NBA drafts past
Picking basketball players for a professional team is no easy task. College and…
Breaking the algorithmic black box
The general public kind of knows about data privacy issues. But not really.…
Rise in income for the poor and middle class
We know that income increased by a lot in 2015, but for who?…
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…
