Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
Loneliness, life satisfaction, and time
For The Pudding, Alvin Chang examines loneliness through the lens of individual responses…
Twitter slows competitor links
When you click a link on Twitter, you go through a Twitter shortlink…
Evolution of Lego brick colors
Lego started with five brick colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and clear. The…
Visualization to better see true values in data
For Scientific American, Jack Murtagh describes the importance of visualization in understanding the…
Very Expensive Maps
In the Very Expensive Maps podcast, cartographer Evan Applegate interviews other cartographers about…
Shifting causes of death over the decades
Saloni Dattani, for Our World in Data, used a set of heatmaps to…
Looking for the best pizza for different styles in different places
Locating the best pizza depends on where you are and what kind of…
Clock plays a song with the current time in its title
For The Pudding, Russell Samora pulled songs via the Spotify API and made…
Apple’s global suppliers
Most of Apple’s suppliers and manufacturing happen outside the United States and in…
Infinity abstractions
Infinity is an abstraction of endlessness, which seems to suggest that it cannot…
Explorable explanation for matrix transformations
Instead of using a bunch of equations to memorize, Yi Zhe Ang visually…
Using cold lake water to cool buildings
There are buildings in Toronto, Canada that make use of a deep lake…
Passenger planes flying too close
Sometimes passenger planes get a little too close to each other on takeoff…
xkcd: Pairwise matrix of what to do in an emergency
xkcd has an informative reference for what do in case of mountain lion…
