Visualization

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

How much is mapping worth

A comeback for geography…

Mercator map puzzle

The Mercator projection can be useful for giving directions, but when it comes…

Baseball Hall of Fame voting trajectories

Carlos Scheidegger and Kenny Shirley, along with Chris Volinsky, visualized Major League Baseball…

NFL fans on Facebook, based on likes

As the Super Bowl draws near, Facebook took a look at football fandom…

Ten years of cumulative precipitation

We’ve all seen rain maps for a sliver of time. Screw that. I…

Dogs of NYC

Map of most popular dog names and types by area…

Evolution of science fiction covers in color

Arthur Buxton plotted the most common colors of Penguin Publishing science fiction colors…

Billionaires of the world ranked and charted

How wealthy are the richest people in the world? How do they compare…

Vintage American Infographics

Small collection of graphics from mid-19th century…

Slitscanning online videos

Thanks to Sha Hwang, you can now siltscan videos on YouTube and Vimeo…

silenc: Removing the silent letters from a body of text

During a two-week visualization course, Momo Miyazaki, Manas Karambelkar, and Kenneth Aleksander Robertsen…

Treasure island of infographic textbooks

A look back on an old collection…

Global temperature rises over past century

New Scientist mapped global temperature change based on a NASA GISTEMP analysis. The…

Character mentions in Les Miserables

Jeff Clark took a detailed look at Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables via character…

Flowchart: Gandalf problem solving

The Lotr Project breaks down the thought process in the magical mind.…

How a Civil War Vet Invented the American Infographic

Creator of the first Statistical Atlas of the United States…

Random walk on pi

By Francisco Javier Aragón Artacho, “This is a walk made out of the…

Five years of traffic fatalities

I made a graphic a while back that showed traffic fatalities over a…