Visualization

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

Shifts in post-apocalyptic worlds in science fiction films

Using science fiction films as a proxy for what we see in our…

Famine prevalence in different countries

Reuters explores famine around the world through the lens of starving children in…

Genealogy of technology and power from the 1500s to present

Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler created a comprehensive view in Calculating Empires. Calculating…

Designing EV sounds

Vox explains the process of designing artificial car sounds for electric vehicles to…

1,300 allegations against New Hampshire Youth Development Center

In a collaboration between NHPR and the Pudding, Jason Moon and Russell Samora…

Accuracy of temperature forecasts where you live

You’ve probably noticed that the weather forecast can change a lot for predictions…

UK party gains and winners

Speaking of Conservatives losing, Andre Tartar and Demetrios Pogkas for Bloomberg show the…

Conservatives lose UK election by a lot

For the New York Times, Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby show how the…

Visually navigate code as stars and galaxies

Andrei Kashcha visualized major software packages as galaxies that you can fly through.…

Seeing the world after Google Streetview

Trevor Rainbolt is really good at geolocating a place given a single frame…

Shrinking down to the size of an atom

In a different take on showing the scale of very tiny things, Epic…

Age differences between world leaders and the populations they serve

The ages of American presidential candidates are old when compared to the ages…

Changing climate zones of major cities

A global map of climate change can make a few degrees of rising…

Trendy baby name sounds

For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura…

Where State Farm Insurance is dropping home policies

State Farm won’t be renewing about 30,000 policies because of high wildfire and…

Heat tracker for the U.S.

It’s abnormally hot in a large portion of the United States, and it’s…

Mapping hurricane winds with avocado of uncertainty

Stamen, whose design breakdowns I always appreciate, discusses why they took a different…

Visualizing GitHub commit history in a 3-D virtual space

Ren Yuan visualized the GitHub commit history for the PyTorch library. The virtual…