Visualization

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

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…

Open source mapping lab

Mapzen focuses on building open source mapping components for developers.…

Flooding risk cartogram

As you may or may not know, climate change could bring with it…

Drones programmed for light painting in the sky

What do you get when you put LEDs on a system of drones…

No Ceilings highlights progress towards gender equality

No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative from the Clinton Foundation, aims…

Quartet point cloud

This is beautiful to watch. Graham Roberts, Daniel J. Wakin, and others from…

Hand-drawn, detailed city maps

Maps can be about a lot of things, from strictly geography and location…