Visualization

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

Classic 1939 book on graphs in its entirety

Willard Cope Brinton is credited as one of the pioneers of information visualization,…

Interactive explanation for how neurons work

Nicky Case made an interactive explanation of how neurons work. It’s part narrated…

Gravity visualized in physics demo

Properties of time and space using marbles and two large pieces of spandex sewn together in a classroom demonstration.

Power sources in each state

A clean and simple set of slope charts to show the change between 2000 and 2014.

City layouts in 3-D

They look like little cardboard cutouts.

Pascal’s triangle, not just a stack of numbers

SECRETS REVEALED.

Death in Syria counted

In a striking representation by the New York Times, a dot represents each life lost.

Automatic charts and insights in Google Sheets

So you have your data neat and tidy in a single spreadsheet, and…

Way more trees than previously thought, new estimates show

There are a lot of trees on this planet.

Searching for stock market spoofers

A stepper from Bloomberg that explains how spoofers put in fake orders to game the market.

Maps to understand tennis

Damien Saunder, a cartographer at ESRI, likes to use mapping methods to evaluate…

Mike Bostock AMA

The creator of d3.js is answering questions on reddit right now. Saving for…

Weevmee: Your Instagram photos turned artistic images

Weevmee autogenrates a woven-like image, based on your Instagram photos. A lot of…

Be a tennis line judge: Interactive tests your skills

Watch video clips from the judge's point of view and try to make the call.

Immigrant America

A dot density map showing one dot for every 20 immigrants.

Square mile grid-ness of the United States

Named after the grid system Thomas Jefferson used to apportion land acquired through…

Minimum Wage Machine pays in pennies

Crank to earn a penny every 4.5 seconds.

Live cyber attack map

Norse monitors cyber attacks in real-time. This is their map of what’s going…