Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Generate your own fantasy map
Martin O’Leary made a Twitter bot, Uncharted Atlas, that posts automatically generated fantasy…
Michael Phelps race times since his first Olympics
That Michael Phelps. He is a crazy man, in the best possible way.…
Streamgraph of Olympic medal wins
Gregor Aisch and Larry Buchanan for the New York Times visualized Olympic medal…
What makes the Olympic athletes great
Rather than a focus on the events and their details, the New York…
Games to test your skillz against Olympians, from your computer
The last couple of Olympics, news graphics desks went with gloriously detailed explainers…
Star Trek character network
Star Trek fans rejoice. Mollie Pettit from Datascope Analytics visualized the interactions between…
An interactive look at handwriting recognition from 1960s
In the 1960s, the RAND corporation developed a handwriting recognition system using, well,…
Small percentage of Americans actually picked Clinton and Trump
Alicia Parlapiano and Adam Pearce for the New York Times elegantly show a…
Continental drift, from 240 million years ago to present
Researchers modeled continental drift, going back 240 million years ago, on the scale…
Grid map shows shifting states
You’re likely familiar with the state grid map form used these days. Instead…
Ride on the VR time series roller coaster
Speaking of virtual reality visualization, this Nasdaq roller coaster by Roger Kenny and…
Virtual reality map to show Google Trends
More of an experiment, this VR map, by the Google Trends Lab in…
Grace Hopper explains a nanosecond with a visual aid
A nanosecond is a billionth of a second, but we’re not very good…
Piecing together satellite images
You might think piecing together satellite imagery is a straightforward task of lining…
Square pie chart beats out the rest in perception study
Many hate pie charts. Others love them. I think they’re useful but have…
