Visualization

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

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…

Mapping words to parts of the brain

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers monitored brain activity in seven people while…

Change in the British diet, since 1974

From the Open Data Institute, an interactive looking at diet data made available…

Global shipping in a narrated interactive map

We’ve seen maps for global shipping routes before, but this project — Ship…

Slavery in the United States, by decade

Mapping slavery from a historical perspective is a challenge, because many old maps…

Here’s how a neural network works

Daniel Smilkov and Shan Carter at Google put together this interactive learner for…

“Well that escalated quickly.”

This is the trend line from Google Trends for “Well that escalated quickly.”…