Visualization

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

One animated art piece per day, with D3.js

Data-Driven Documents, or D3.js, is a flexible JavaScript library that lets you draw…

3-D model to show free-climb route

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are free-climbing almost 3,000 feet up El Capitan,…

Mapped history of how Native American land was taken

In Invasion of America, an animated map shows the loss of land.…

Tim Cook Chernoff Face

This amused me. By artist Christo Allegra.…

The first photo of the United States by NASA satellite

In 1974, NASA published their first satellite photo of the contiguous United States…

Turning 30, explained with charts

You get older as time passes. (That’s how age works last time I…

Japan fertility rate forecasts versus reality

It’s hard to predict the future, especially when humans are involved. Oftentimes, there…

Every episode of Friends season 1, played simultaneously

All ten seasons of Friends are currently available on Netflix, but watching shows…

Rapper travels and a robot arm

Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement. by Tahir Hemphill explores rappers’ geographic mentions in their…

Auto recalls for the year set record

There were a lot of auto recalls — 62 million of them —…

Eric Rodenbeck on visualization and running a studio

Eric Rodenbeck is the founder and creative director for Stamen. No doubt you’ve…

Cookie ingredient variants

For the holiday cookie makers, this one from Tessa Arias is for you.…

Holiday lights from space

You’ve likely seen the classic globe image that shows Earth at night. It’s…

Most decade-specific words in Billboard song titles

David Taylor looked for words in Billboard song titles that appeared during a…

News that China blocks

China blocks sites from its citizens. We know this. But, what do they…

The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2014

It's always tough to pick my favorite visualization projects. Nevertheless, I gave it a go.

Collection of physical visualizations

I’m pretty sure there’s a ton of untapped potential in data represented physically.…

Using baseball bats to display data

When a baseball player is hitting well, commentators will sometimes say that it…