Visualization

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

Relative size of astronomy stuff

Look! More size of very big things with large numbers, compared against things…

Decline of women in computer science

NPR spent some time on the subject of the decline of women in…

Chess piece survival rates

On Quora, someone asked, “What are the chances of survival of individual chess…

Halloween costume rankings

Accompanying their segment on Halloween stores stocking costumes, NPR ranks bestsellers for the…

Neurons conversing

Adam Cohen and his group are using genetically-modified neurons that light up when…

Affordable Care Act progress report

The New York Times takes a data-centric look at the progress of the…

Curse of dimensionality, interactive demo

Jeff Leek was trying to explain the curse of dimensionality and realized that…

New York Times mapmakers

When news breaks, maps often accompany stories (or the maps are the story),…

Visual summary of skateboarding tournament

George Murphy visualized the results of this year’s skateboarding tournament Battle at the…

F1 racing winners and age

So here’s a sport I don’t see or hear much about. F1 racing,…

Cynthia Brewer profile

Wired wrote a short profile for Cynthia Brewer, best known for Color Brewer,…

Your life on Earth

The BBC has a fun piece that shows changes over your lifetime. Enter…

A healthy versus unhealthy office environment

In an interesting use of the before-and-after slider, this Washington Post graphic by…

Map of book subjects on Internet Archive

The Internet Archive makes millions of digitized books available in the form of…

How basketball rebounds work

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, looked at how rebounds work in…

Equal population mapper

We know that there are more people per square mile in some places…

Road grid orientation in major cities

This is what you get when you group streets by their geographic orientation…

Geographic smell maps

Kate McLean, a PhD candidate in Information Experience Design at the Royal College…