Visualization

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

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:…

Stock trading game

Bloomberg Business has an interesting stock trading game with a simple premise. A…

Evolving LEGO color palette

DaveE from the Brickset Forum was curious about the changing LEGO color palette,…

Water scroller

Here’s a nice scroller from Katie Park for the Washington Post. It shows…

Value of body parts for injured workers

A detailed look at the state where companies can write their own workers' compensation plans.

Monopoly pieces to show presidential funding

According to the New York Times, 158 families funded about half of the…

A timeline of history

“I wish there was a timeline browser for all the historical events documented…