Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Million dollar blocks and the cost of incarceration
Incarceration costs a lot of money. We know this, sort of. But how…
Ascent in the Tour de France
I was flipping through the channels the other night and happened on the…
Interactive lets you fly through a software galaxy
This is a fun one. Software Galaxies by Andrei Kashcha visualizes popular software…
Hand-drawn map boundaries
You’ve probably seen those “maps” where people from other countries draw the United…
Why time flies when you’re older
When you’re a kid, a year seems like forever. Appending “and a half”…
3-D paper model of a shrinking sea
The Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, formerly one of the largest lakes in the…
If the Moon were one pixel in size
Somehow these space-in-perspective graphics and interactives never get old. I guess the size…
Disney business strategy chart, 1957
This is Walt Disney’s corporate strategy from 1957. The theatrical films serve as…
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…
How we created an interactive map of Europe with 100k+ areas →
A lot of boundary areas, but still loads quickly.…
Pluto reflectance map: Whale and the Donut
Using images taken by New Horizons between June 27 and July 3, this…
A more realistic perspective of country sizes
Most of us have seen the True Size of Africa graphic that squishes…
