Visualization

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

Spectrogram shows dialup modem handshake sounds

Presented mostly for my fond memories as a grade schooler, with a fresh…

Global forest change

Hansen, Potapov, Moore, Hancher et al. produced high-resolution maps of global forestry to…

Bourbon family tree

Colin Spoelman for GQ illustrated an educated guess of the bourbon family tree.…

Why traffic waves and congestion happen

You’re on the freeway, traffic is moving along, and for no apparent reason…

Running traces

The Endomondo app lets you keep track of your workouts, namely running and…

The safest time to drive

As we’ve seen, there are more fatal car crashes during the weekend and…

Estimated coastlines if the ice melted

National Geographic imagined new coastlines (and the cities that would go under) if…

Roomba traces

We’ve seen what happens when you turn on a Roomba and track its…

Six decades of U.S. migration

We know that millions of Americans move to different counties every year, and…

Accidental aRt

There comes a time late at night when your screen grows fuzzy and…

Beauty of mathematics

Betrand Russell: “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty —…

Digital attack map

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack attempts to disable a site or…

Evolution of western dance music

A quick animated look on the evolution of western dance music, a mixture…

Most popular girl names by state

Reuben Fischer-Baum looks at the most popular girl names by state, over the…

Regional personality

Peter J. Rentfrow, et al. studied personality clusters across states using data from…

Super duper full-featured paper map

Check out this awesome new thing called MAP. It’s made of 100% sustainable…

Average man graphic renderings

James Hamblin for The Atlantic rendered the average American man based on BMI…

Maritime traffic in the Baltic Sea, animated

Digital artist Lauri Vanhala animated a day of maritime traffic in the Baltic…