Visualization

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

California water use per capita, by district

Matthew Bloch and Haeyoun Park for the New York Times mapped, for about…

Gallons of water to produce foods

With all the talk recently about how much water it takes to grow…

Every Game of Thrones death

I hear there’s a show called “Game of Thrones” on the T.V., where…

Growth of urban neighborhood Wal-Mart

Maybe you saw the Wal-Mart growth map I made a while back. NPR…

Map of global carbon emissions

Using data from the Earth System Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and…

Pac-Man Google Maps

You can currently play Pac-Man on Google Maps. Just go to some location…

Gay marriage legalized by state

Changes in gay marriage rights had changed slowly over the years, but more…

Minimal landscape maps

Designer Michael Pecirno experiments with single-subject maps in his project Minimal Maps. No…

Rickrolling pie chart

From Finger Magazine a few years back, in the heyday of rickrolling and…

Making better social media maps

Location-based data from social media can be interesting to analyze and map, but…

Gender gaps around the world

Ri Liu provides an exploratory view of gender gaps around the world through…

Making waffle charts in R

An alternative to the pie chart to show proportions.…

A beard scale for baseball

There are a lot of beards and other types of facial hair in…

Future of visualization

Jeffrey Heer, computer science professor and co-founder of Trifacta, describes the future of…

Out-of-state commuters mapped

In a straightforward map, Seth Kadish shows the percentage of county residents who…

Traffic gridlock simulation

I hate all things commute- and traffic-related, and it’s probably why I like…

Data drawing pen pals

Stefanie Posavec, known around these parts for her manual data design and Giorgia…

3-D chart for economy’s future

People like to poke fun at 3-D charts, mostly because they don’t work…