Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Who marries who, by profession
People with certain professions tend to marry others with a given profession. Adam…
International impact of China’s economic slowdown
China’s economic slowdown means a major decline in imports from other countries, which…
Taxi ride volume during Super Bowl key moments
A high percentage of Americans are glued to the television or party sample…
Wind prediction and potential power
As we use up current energy resources, it grows more important to look…
Small multiples for NBA game differentials
Adam Pearce charted minute-by-minute point differentials for NBA games during the 2014-15 season.…
Same source, different styles →
Jaakko Seppälä drew ten comic characters, each in its original style and in…
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.