Visualization

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

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…

Where nobody lives

We’ve seen the map of where everyone lives. Now here’s the reverse of…

Weird stacked area map thing

This chart-map-looking thing from Nightly News is making the rounds, and it’s not…

Five decades of warm and cold weather anomalies

This year’s polar vortex churned up some global warming skeptics, but as we…

High-detail maps with Disser

Open data consultancy Conveyal released Disser, a command-line tool to disaggregate geographic data…

Independent coffee shops and community

As part of the You Are Here project from the MIT Media Lab,…

Regional macrobrews

FloatingSheep pointed their Twitter geography towards beer (and wine). From Sam Adams in…

Open access to 20,000 maps from NYPL

The New York Public Library announced open access to 20,000 maps, making them…

Planetary layer cake

From Cakecrumbs, a product that helps you learn while you eat: planetary layer…

Exponential water tank

Hibai Unzueta, based on a paper by Albert Bartlett, demonstrates exponential growth with…

Centuries of European border changes

The Centennia Historical Atlas is a program that shows you border changes in…

Smoking rates and income

Based on a study on smoking prevalence from 1996 to 2012, a map…

Reconstructing Google Streetview as a point cloud

Patricio Gonzalez Vivo, an MFA Design & Technology student, scraped depth from Google…

Human heartbeat

Jen Lowe tracks her heart rate with a Basis watch, and she’s showing…

Level of road grid

Seth Kadish looked at the road network of several major counties and estimated…