Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Satellite time-lapse of Earth
Charlie Loyd, who works with satellite imagery at Mapbox, put together a 12-second…
Counting your days left with emoji
While we’re on the topic of life expectancy, Tim Urban of Wait But…
Punctuation only in literary works
What do you get if you take famous literary works, strip out all…
Immigration history
American immigration history is chock full of policies and restrictions, and you can…
Antibiotic history and the winning bacteria
We take antibiotics. Bacteria dies, but some lives, evolves and develops a resistance…
Visual breakdown of additives in food
In their book Ingredients, Dwight Eschliman and Steve Ettlinger explore additives in common…
Shakespeare tragedies as network graphs
Martin Grandjean looked at the structure of Shakespeare tragedies through character interactions. Each…
Atlas of United States history
In a collaboration between the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond…
10 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2015
These are my picks for the best of 2015. As usual, they could easily appear in a different order on a different day, and there are projects not on the list that were also excellent.
All known planets outside our solar system
Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with Visualized, shows all known exoplanets (currently 1,942…
Timelines show Star Wars character interactions
Remember when xkcd charted character interactions for fictional stories? Inspired by that and…
Tinder robot behaves to palm sweatiness
Take all the guesswork out of finding “love” on Tinder, and let the…
Blueprint for a carbon-free world
Getting to 100 percent renewable energy seems like such a far away goal…
Plant life cycle shows a breathing Earth
NASA mapped the annual cycle of all plant life on the planet in…
Mass shootings count – Depends on your definition
With recent events, you’ve likely seen the articles and graphics that get into…
Ant time-lapse shows movement patterns
Ant activity can seem mysterious at times. The pack seems to start out…
