Visualization

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

Getting more news from the TikTok

Pew Research surveyed U.S. adults about news consumption on social media and found…

Undelivered USAID medical supplies and medicine

Earlier this year, the administration halted USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV medical…

Length of government funding gaps

The government shutdown of 2025 begins. Here is a quick table by Nigel…

Government shutdowns and disagreements in federal funding

As one might expect, Congress is having trouble figuring out how to fund…

Quantum mechanics of greenhouse gases

For Quanta Magazine, Joseph Howlett and Mark Belan explain the mechanics of how…

Sonification of the everyday through music

You can find rhythms and patterns when you look closely at the activities…

Map of H-1B visa holders at research institutions

Most of the H-1B attention has been on companies, but many visa holders…

More wildfire smoke, pollution, and days

The wildfires keep coming, and the smoke pollution keeps filling the air. It…

Visual story about getting scammed into scamming

This is quite a visual story from Reuters. In a comic format, they…

Inconsistent women’s clothing sizes across brands

Women’s clothing sizes aren’t the same across brands. The Straits Times collected measurements,…

Helicopter paths show circling and hovering in Washington, D.C.

The Washington Post algorithmically identified circling flight paths for helicopters over Washington, D.C.,…

Bird migrations in a map explorer

The Bird Migration Explorer shows bird migrations that you can explore. Each color…

Sorting data, the quiz game

Speaking of data games, Dataguessr by David Bauer is a sorting game that…

Chartle, a daily guessing game with charts

Chartle, by Erwan Rivault and Adnaan Jiwa, is a game to test and/or…

Getting more difficult to find a job

For the Washington Post, Taylor Telford, Jaclyn Peiser, and Federica Cocco report on…

Explaining the true size of Africa, a lesson in map projections

For Reuters, Mariano Zafra and Sudev Kiyada highlight the true size of Africa…

Shrinking box office

This summer was supposed to be a return to pre-pandemic levels of movie-going,…

Seeking dividends over long-term investment

There is a growing trend among investors to put money in places with…