Visualization

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

All known planets outside our solar system

Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with Visualized, shows all known exoplanets (currently 1,942…

Tour of a million stars

The Online Star Register takes you through a delightful view of a million…

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…

All the roads that lead to Rome

As the saying goes, “All roads lead to Rome.” Folks at the moovel…

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…

Thanksgiving flight patterns

Millions of Americans will fly home this Thanksgiving weekend. (Based on my morning…

Daylight Saving Time geography

Keith Collins for Quartz made an interactive that showed how much more daylight…

Out-of-state gun purchasing

In states with stricter gun laws, firearms still find their way in. Based…

ASCII business report

Bloomberg put together their list of 50 companies to watch in 2016. For…

What the world eats

Diets vary around the world. Fathom Information Design for National Geographic charted the…

Missing votes in Congress

When members of the House of Representatives miss a vote, it is customary…

Average of faces in things

You’ve likely seen projects that take the average of people’s faces, but you…

Pale Blue Dot motion graphic

Joel Somerfield created this motion graphic to Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot monologue.…

Motion graphics in Keynote

As an experiment, Linda Dong used Keynote, typically for your everyday slide presentations,…