Visualization

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

See a 150mph tennis serve to your face

Hawk-Eye is a collection of technologies that allows high-granularity sports tracking, most notably…

Earth time-lapse from 22,000 miles out

Japan has a new weather satellite in stationary orbit, Himawari-8, that takes a…

Map of just the time zones

Kind of fun. Branden Rishel mapped just the time zones. No borders or…

How we created an interactive map of Europe with 100k+ areas

A lot of boundary areas, but still loads quickly.…

Make a map poster of anywhere

Map posters are easy to come by for major cities. But if you…

Pluto reflectance map: Whale and the Donut

Using images taken by New Horizons between June 27 and July 3, this…

Journey to Pluto

The New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 and is set to…

A more realistic perspective of country sizes

Most of us have seen the True Size of Africa graphic that squishes…

U.S. women’s soccer gameplan

I know next to nothing about soccer. Like there’s nothing, and then I’m…

Don’t let the maps fool you

Maps are fun to look at and get easier to make every day,…

Comparison of shifted public opinion

David Leonhardt and Alicia Parlapiano compared public opinion over time for various social…

Combining Inside Out emotions for new ones

Spoiler alert for Inside Out. At the climax of the movie, we see…

Animated map shows Trans-Atlantic slave trade

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database provides records for thousands of voyages between the…

Data into art and connecting to humans

Visualization tends to rest in the realm of efficiency and accuracy. From a…

Same-sex marriage legalized in all states

The Supreme Court legalized gay marriage today. NPR shows before and after the…

Drought report cards for California water districts

Thomas Suh Lauder for the Los Angeles Times provides you with a way…

Working with R at the New York Times

Amanda Cox from the New York Times was on the Data Stories podcast.…

Refugee migration mapped globally

According to estimates recently released by the United Nations, about 14 million left…