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…

Two maps with the same scale

When you compare two areas on a single map, it can be a…

Evolution of beer

Beer dates back thousands of centuries, but it was not the beer we…

Twitter slows competitor links

When you click a link on Twitter, you go through a Twitter shortlink…

Cooling a city

Tall buildings in dense cities can trap heat and restrict air flow, which…

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…

Declining groundwater

The New York Times analyzed water levels across the country since 1920. In…

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…