Visualization

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

Death penalty, the executed and the victims

The Washington Post provides a look at the death penalty in the United…

Your income versus what it feels like

Incomes and the cost of living vary across the country. Some areas might…

Military infographic fascination

Paul Ford describes his fascination with military infographics. Here’s what he has to…

Drought map shows extreme shortages

From the U.S. National Drought Monitor. The entire state of California is in…

Alcohol consumption per drinker

We’ve seen rankings for alcohol consumption per capita around the world. These tend…

NBA basketball fans by ZIP code

After the popularity of The Upshot’s baseball fandom map, it’s no surprise the…

Name popularity by state, animated by year

Using baby name data from the Social Security Administration, Brian Rowe made this…

Crystal clusters of world data

Artist Scott Kildall generates what he calls World Data Crystals by mapping data…

Your mobility at various times during the day

Isoscope, a class project by Flavio Gortana, Sebastian Kaim and Martin von Lupin,…

The size of Game of Thrones dragons compared

Because Game of Thrones. Max Fleishman and Fernando Alfonso III for The Daily…

Views of white Americans

In light of the Donald Sterling brouhaha, Amanda Cox for The Upshot put…

Interactive visualization used as music video

George & Jonathan used an interactive audio visualization for their recent album George…

Lawmaking through the House and Senate visualized

Researchers at the University of Washington’s Center for American Politics and Public Policy…

Audio visualizer made with matrix of fire

The Pyro Board is a matrix of 2,500 flames that have controllable intensity,…

Detailed map of baseball fandom

For the past couple of sports seasons, Facebook mapped the most liked team…

Where people bike and run, worldwide

Remember those running maps I made with limited data from RunKeeper? Strava, which…

Music preference by region

Movoto mapped music preference for various genres, across the United States. We calculated…

How people die in America

Matthew Klein for Bloomberg View explored mortality in America through a slidedeck of…