Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Color timeline for Avengers comic book covers
The Avengers comic has been around since 1963 and the look and feel…
Wealth inequality explained in charts
Wealth inequality is a real thing that is complex and a result of…
Life cycle of Earth’s carbon dioxide
The Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University and NASA visualized a…
Speedy crossword solvers
Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight covered this year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the…
xkcd: U.S. of movie backgrounds
xkcd sectioned the United States by the background in movies. Because xkcd.…
Really slow speed of light
The “speed of light” typically means “really fast” but when it’s relative to…
Married couple tax bonuses and penalties
Using calculations by Nick Kasprak from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities…
LEGO explainer: Taxes and income inequality
LEGOs make everything better. David Wessel for Brookings Institution explains how federal taxes…
A tall graphic to show Mt. Everest scale
Mt. Everest is a tall mountain. How tall is it?? Glad you asked.…
Color use in paintings, by year
Martin Bellander saw some projects that extracted color from movie posters and trailers,…
Cocktail construction chart
Remember that engineer’s guide to drinks a while back? I think this one…
California water use per capita, by district
Matthew Bloch and Haeyoun Park for the New York Times mapped, for about…
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…
Gay marriage legalized by state
Changes in gay marriage rights had changed slowly over the years, but more…
