Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
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…
Cynthia Brewer profile
Wired wrote a short profile for Cynthia Brewer, best known for Color Brewer,…
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…
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…
10,000 League of Legends matches, all at once
League of Legends is an online, free-to-play game that pits two teams of…
Ebola spreading, a simulation
As a way to understand the deadliness and spread of Ebola, the Washington…
Interracial and same-sex marriage parallels
xkcd doing what xkcd does. Randall Munroe charts a brief timeline of interracial…
Real cities drawn as fantasy maps
Remember that time you were sitting by the fire reading The Lord of…
Beer family tree
With Anheuser-Busch InBev rumored to have an interest in acquiring SABMiller and SABMiller…