Visualization

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

Mass shootings count – Depends on your definition

With recent events, you’ve likely seen the articles and graphics that get into…

Ant time-lapse shows movement patterns

Ant activity can seem mysterious at times. The pack seems to start out…

Thanksgiving flight patterns

Millions of Americans will fly home this Thanksgiving weekend. (Based on my morning…

Daylight Saving Time geography

Keith Collins for Quartz made an interactive that showed how much more daylight…

Out-of-state gun purchasing

In states with stricter gun laws, firearms still find their way in. Based…

ASCII business report

Bloomberg put together their list of 50 companies to watch in 2016. For…

What the world eats

Diets vary around the world. Fathom Information Design for National Geographic charted the…

Missing votes in Congress

When members of the House of Representatives miss a vote, it is customary…

Average of faces in things

You’ve likely seen projects that take the average of people’s faces, but you…

Pale Blue Dot motion graphic

Joel Somerfield created this motion graphic to Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot monologue.…

Motion graphics in Keynote

As an experiment, Linda Dong used Keynote, typically for your everyday slide presentations,…

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:…