Visualization
Showing the stories in data through statistics, design, aesthetics, and code.
National Rifle Association grades for Congress members →
The New York Times mapped ratings for members of Congress, as given by…
Animated growth of an organization
A company grows, it shrinks, people come and go. Justin Matejka, a research…
Small multiples with details on demand →
Small charts. Click. Big chart.…
An introduction to diagrams
As a teaser for a larger project on diagrams, Jane Nisselson describes how…
An ideal bookshelf
Thessaly La Force, with illustrator Jane Mount, recently published My Ideal Bookshelf, which…
This man makes data look beautiful →
A profile of the omnipresent Jer Thorp on Mashable…
Get a visual recap of your year on Twitter
As 2013 nears, let the recaps, reviews, and best ofs begin. Twitter put…
Relationships and kills in Game of Thrones replayed →
This one’s for you Game of Thrones fans and aficionados. Jerome Cukier visualized…
An infographical look at Walking Dead kills over three seasons →
Andrew Barr and Richard Johnson for the National Post took a detailed look…
The family tree for All in the Family
James Grady from Fathom Information Design had a look at the family tree…
Emotion of countries mapped →
Max Fisher for the Washington Post mapped country emotion ratings, based on the…
Cartograms in D3 →
Cartograms in D3. Way smooth and interactive.…
Lunar Lander trails
In 1979, Atari released Lunar Lander, a game whose object was to land…
50 years of Rolling Stones tours
CartoDB mapped every Rolling Stones tour from 1963 to 2007.
The Stones passed…
Time-lapse writing of a research paper
A research paper version of Noah Kalina’s photo project by Timothy Weninger. Weninger…
How tax rates have changed →
Mike Bostock, Matthew Ericson and Robert Gebeloff for the New York Times explored…
Pinball machine as Etch A Sketch
When you plan pinball, the ball bounces around creating paths for itself and…
xkcd: Calendar of meaningful dates
Using the Google ngrams corpus, xkcd sized the days of the year based…