Visualization

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

Fake sugars in your food

For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor, Aaron Steckelberg, and Laura Reiley visually describe…

Past and present California drought severity

It’s been raining a lot here in California, which is helpful, because most…

When spring is coming where you live

Going off the calendar, today is the first day of spring, but nature…

Excess Kia and Hyundai car thefts

In the middle of 2022, a popular video on TikTok, since taken down,…

Maps of home heating sources in the United States

For The Washington Post, John Muyskens, Shannon Osaka, and Naema Ahmed mapped the…

Finding the physical location in an online video via Google Maps clues

GeoGuessr player rainbolt is next-level good at reading Google Maps. Given a short…

Hypothetical map that shows how access changes if more states ban abortion

Based on analysis by economics professor Caitlin Myers, FiveThirtyEight provides a hypothetical map…

Increasing range of electric vehicles

Hannah Ritchie compared electric vehicle range over the years: The median range of…

Line chart race to show emissions

For The Washington Post, Harry Stevens used the line chart equivalent of a…

Asian representation at the Oscars

Asian characters in American films are historically less integral to the stories and…

Why South Koreans grew taller so quickly

As a world population, we’re growing taller, but South Koreans seemed to grow…

Shooting down the Chinese balloon

Shooting down a floating balloon out on its lonesome seems like a straightforward…

Ski resorts dealing with fewer snow days

For Bloomberg Green, Jin Wu, Laura Millan and Hayley Warren, on the challenges…

Emissions from big electric trucks vs. gas vehicles

Based on estimates from CarbonCounter by the MIT Trancik Lab, electric vehicles typically…

Using satellite imagery to assess the damage in Ukraine

The Economist combined two satellite imagery sources, one that estimates fire events and…

100 visualizations from a single dataset with 6 data points

The structure of a dataset can help you pick a visualization method or…

Greatest unexpected NBA performance

This is a fun one from Russell Samora and Reshad Malekzai for The…

Trying to isolate Russia

The New York Times shows how the west tried to isolate Russia and…