Visualization

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

The Sun in ultra-HD

Daang, NASA. Using images of the sun taken in space, NASA constructed this…

US boundary evolution

We saw a similar video of boundary development over the centuries before, but…

Past and future predictions of when the world will end

Wikipedia has a list of predicted dates for when apocalypse strikes, because of…

Daylight you get from daylight saving

We recently fell back an hour with the end of this year’s Daylight…

Melting Greenland

This map-centric piece from the New York Times is good. They keep refining…

Pythagorean theorem water demo

This is years old, but it still tickles the neurons every time. It’s…

Particles swirling in the atmosphere

Gavin Schmidt shows different types of particles that swirl around in our atmosphere:…

Stock trading game

Bloomberg Business has an interesting stock trading game with a simple premise. A…

Evolving LEGO color palette

DaveE from the Brickset Forum was curious about the changing LEGO color palette,…

Water scroller

Here’s a nice scroller from Katie Park for the Washington Post. It shows…

Value of body parts for injured workers

A detailed look at the state where companies can write their own workers' compensation plans.

Monopoly pieces to show presidential funding

According to the New York Times, 158 families funded about half of the…

A timeline of history

“I wish there was a timeline browser for all the historical events documented…

Network Effect overwhelms with data

Network Effect by Jonathan Harris and Greg Hochmuth is a gathering of the…

Superhero HR dashboard

Talent Lab is an application for human resource professionals to evaluate a work…

Human side of executions

On one side, a person is scheduled to die. On the other, the person did horrible things. It's complex.

Imagining alternative iPhone power sources

Lithium-ion batteries power the iPhone (among other things), but what if we could…

London Underground rent map

In a straightforward map, Jason Allen for Thrillist replaced station names on the…