Visualization

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

Play chess against the machine and see what it’s thinking

The Thinking Machine, by Martin Wattenberg and Marek Walczak, shows you the thought…

Where people go to and from work

With an animated take on the commute map, Mark Evans shows where people…

Game of Thrones discussions for every episode, visualized

I hear there’s some show called “Game of Thrones” that’s kind of popular…

Air transportation network

Flight pattern maps are fun to look at and reveal the complexity of…

National drug overdose epidemic

Nadja Popovich for the Guardian delves into America’s drug overdose epidemic, starting with…

Bot automatically generates maps from American Community Survey data

The American Community Survey is an ongoing survey run by the United States…

OpenVis Conf talks all online

If you’re looking for a knowledge bomb during your lunch breaks, the OpenVis…

Network visualization shows transitions between states

If you think of network visualization as a collection of nodes and edges,…

Gender pay gaps for major U.S. occupations

As we all know these days, there exists a gender pay gap across…

Kung fu particles

Using motion capture methods, Tobias Gremmler collected movement data for two kung fu…

History of Sumo charted

Sumo has a long history that goes back centuries. Unlike most things that…

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…