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…

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…

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…

Skateboard physics

Aatish Bhatia, a recent physics PhD, describes the forces involved to do a…

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…

Big chicken

From Vox and research from Zuidhof et al., chickens are quite big these…

Beer family tree

With Anheuser-Busch InBev rumored to have an interest in acquiring SABMiller and SABMiller…